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Verticillium, Link. 

 Little moulds known by their distinctly woolly branches, at 

 the apex of which are the spores. 



V. eximium, Berk., a very beautiful species found on Glavaria at 

 Parramatta by W. WooUs. 



OiDiUM, Linh. 

 This genus is considered by some to be an early stage of some 

 Erysiphe. 



O. Tuckeri, Berk,, Vine mildew. 



0. erysiphoides, var. cucurhitarium, Spitzenberger. This form is 

 in some seasons very destructive to Melons, Vegetable 

 Marrows, &c. Both about Brisbane. 



Spoeidiifeea. 

 Having the spores or reproductive bodies contained in asci or 

 bags. 



Sub-order V. — Ascomtcetes. 

 Fruit consisting of asci, containing sporidia, and springing from 

 a naked or enclosed nucleus or hymenium, which is often spread 

 over a receptacle. 



Helvellacei. 

 Substance soft, fleshy or waxy. Hymenium more or less 

 exposed. 



MOECHELLA, BUI. 



Head deeply pitted, naked, supported on a peduncle. The 

 depressions are sometimes regular, but occasionally they assume 

 the appearance of furrows with wrinkled interstices. 

 Jf. semilihera, DC, Clarence Eiver, Journal of Linnean Society, 

 Vol. XIII., Botany, page 175. 



Peziza, Dillenius. 

 Cup-shaped fungi. Eeceptacle fleshy or sub-fleshy, at first 

 closed, then open. Hymenium persistent. Asci distinct, fixed, 

 mixed with paraphyses, elastically ejecting the spores. A very 



