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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 



By D. Mc Alpine, F.L.S. 

 No. I. 



(Communicated by J. H. Maiden, F.L.S.) 



Meliola funekea, n.sp. 



(Plate X., figs. 1-6.) 



Amphigenous, but most developed on upper surface of leaf. 

 Spots velvety, funereal black, with hair-like pile, orbicular or 

 irregular, usually confluent, \--i\ inch or in a continuous mass 

 ^ inch or more, and very conspicuous. 



Mycelium of dark brown, thick-walled, septate, branched inter- 

 woven threads, about 8| ^ dia., springing from deepex'-seated, 

 delicate, colourless hyphae, about 2 /x dia. Bristles on surface 

 looking like masses of black hairs, rigid, sooty-brown, septate, 

 curved, tapering to a point, generally about 11 /x broad. 



Perithecia globose, apparently black but with a distinct purple 

 tint, slightly warted, 310-350 ju. diameter. 



Asci generally -l-spored, ovate to fusoid, up to 90 x 45 /x. 

 Sporidia brown or yellowish, sausage-shaj)ed or elliptic, 3-septate, 

 constricted, 54-62 x 18-20 /x. 



On leaves of Grevillea robuata, Cunn., in March. Lismore, 

 N.S.W. (Maiden). 



The spots and patches are very conspicuous, often almost 

 covering the pinnae of the fern-like leaf, as well as the leaf-stalk. 

 The sporidia are seen in the same perithecium at different stages 

 of development, varying in colour from hyaline to grey, then 

 yellowish, and finally brown. 



Cyathus plumbagineus, n.sp. 



(Plate X., figs. 7-12.) 



Peridium cartilaginous, campanulate, narrowing towai'ds base, 

 externally colour of substratum of dried cow-dung, rough. 



