BY D. McALPINE. 39 



On Solanum viride, R.Br.; Tintenbar, N.S.W. (Maiden). 



The crusted mycelium is readily removed, and is steel-grey on 

 the attached surface. 



The asci when ripe seem to burst within the perithecium, hence 

 the difficulty of getting a mature ascus. The sporidia, which are 

 at first colourless, then greenish and finally brown, often germi- 

 nate even within the perithecium either from one or more segments. 

 They are stained greenish-yellow by potassium-iodide-iodine, and 

 the other contents of the perithecia are similarly stained. 



Helminthosporhun solani, McAlp., was the name given to this 

 species in the Agricultural Gazette of New South "Wales, Vol. vi. 

 Part 12, p. 855 (1895), from a somewhat imperfect specimen, no 

 perithecia being observed, but a few detached worm-like spores. 



On the leaves of Dlospyros car./>lli,u, F.v.M., three different 

 fungi were found in July, viz., H''.teroh:)try>i paradoxa (?), Sacc, 

 Fumago vagans, Pers., and Septoria diospyri, n.sp. Fumago and 

 Ueterobotrys are what are called form-genera, from being simpl}' 

 stages m the life-cycle of higher fungi, but until these higher 

 stages are found, it will be convenient to record them. 



4. Hetekobotrys paradox.^, (?) Sacc. 



On upper surface of leaf, forming minute black specks, scattered 

 all over. Ilyplicc pale green, septate, and usually slightly con- 

 stricted at septa, bi'anched, 5^ju broad. 



The irregularly shaped perithecium-like bodies consist of a 

 parietal portion composed of small brown mulberry-like clusters, 

 each cell about 4 /x in diameter, and a central portion of hyaline 

 spherical cells, either isolated or united in chains, 7-11 /x diameter 

 and imbedded in a gelatinous matrix. 



This occurs as a stage in Capnodium citricolum, McAlp., and 

 has already been recorded in that connection from New South 



Wales. 



