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(7) Piiccinia F/agianfhi, McAlp., n. sp. 



Sori reddish-brown, naked, bullate, scattered. Teleutospores 

 shortly-stalked, yellowish, clavate, slightly constricted in middle ; 

 upper cell rounded at apex ; lower cell usually tapering towards 

 base, sometimes a counterpart of the upper, similarly coloured ; 

 pedicel hyaline, 50 x 22/x. 



Very common on leaves and fiowers of Plagiant/nis sidoides. 

 August to April. Southern sloj^e of Mount Wellington, 

 Tasmania (Rodway, 11). 



(8) ^■Ecidiiiin ei>i/riiei/iii, ^IcAlp., n. sp. 



^cidia ivoiy colour becoming brownisli, clustered together 

 without definite order. Pseudoperidia cup-shaped, niinute, 

 mai'gin finely toothed. ^cidiospores subglobose or elliptical, 

 grey, from 24 to 25 fx. in diameter, or 25 - 28 x 19-22yu,. On 

 stems, leaves, Hower-stalk, calyx and legumes of Bossicca ciiierea. 

 < )ctober and November. Caultield and Boxhill, near Melbourne, 

 Victoria (Barnaid, 1). Bellerine Swamp, Tasmania (Rodway, 15). 



In the Tasmaniam specimens the tecidia are confined to the 

 fi'uit. 



(9) .Pcidium mofiocystis, Berk. 



On Abrotanella forsierioides. Sunniiit of ]Mount Wellington, 

 Tasmania (Rodway, 30). 



(10) .■Ecidium Raniiiiciilacearuiu. D. C. 

 On Ranunculus parviflorus. Ardmona in Goulburn Valley, 

 \^ictoria (Robinson, 90). 



Group IV. — Pyrenomycetes. 



ORDER IIYPOCREACE.E. 



(11) Claviceps purpurea, Tul. 

 On Lolium perenne, Loliujn teniuientum, Triiicuni sativum, etc., 

 Victoria. 



ORDER FOLIICOLACE^.. 



(12) Sphaerella Fragarict, Sacc. 



On leaves of strawberry. Victoria, South Australia, and 

 recorded for New South Wales by Dr. Cobb. 



Tliis is becoming a very widespread and serious disease of tlie 

 strawberry plant. 



