40 NEW SOUTH WALES FUNGI, 



5. Helminthosporium conspicuum, n.sp. 



(Plate i. figs. 10-11.) 



Hypophyllous, Effused, sooty-black, velvety, conspicuous 

 patches, roughly orbicular unless at margin of leaf, sometimes 

 about 1 inch in diameter. Mycelium composed of green, slender, 

 septate, branched hyphfe, forming a regular pavement next to 

 matrix, and brown, stout, rigid, thick-walled hyphse imbedded in 

 and arising from the former. Green hyphce, with portions colour- 

 less, average 2 ^ diameter. Brown hyphcE creeping, very thick- 

 walled, giving rise to short, club-headed branches, or long gonidio- 

 phores, 7i/x broad. Gonidiophores simple, erect, rigid, brown, 

 straight or wavy, apex rounded and often paler than the rest, up 

 to i mm. high and 5 p, broad. Gonidia clear brown, fusoid or 

 elongated-fusoid, somewhat acute at one or both ends, often 

 tapering towards base, not constricted, usually 3-septate, 24-28 x 



On leaves of unknown plant; New South Wales (Maiden). 

 This species is quite distinct from any of the recorded Austra- 

 lian ones. 



6. FuMAGO vagans, Pers. 

 (Plate i. fig. 12.) 



On under surface of leaf among the mealy pubescence caused 

 by the numerous short, curved, hyaline hairs. This, which is the 

 gonidial form of a Capnodium (C. salicimun, Mart.), has not 

 hitherto been recorded for New South Wales. 



On leaves of Diospyros cargillia, F.v.M.; July; New South 

 Wales (Maiden). 



7. Bactridium versicolor, n.sp. 



(Plate ii. figs. 13-14.) 



Tubercles closely crowded, globose, hemisjDherical, black, but 

 passing through fawn, pink and brown when young, firm, about 



