90 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



of years. When searching for evidence of man from a formation, 

 the least chip of sharp angular stone should be preserved, as 

 though the stone may be a mere waste flake struck off from an 

 implement in course of construction, still someone may be able 

 to recognize it as a portion of a rock that does not occur in situ 

 for perhaps 50 miles from where picked up, and it can thus be 

 shown to have been carried. 



In conclusion, I should like to suggest to members that, should 

 any of them care to collect evidence of the antiquity of man in 

 Victoria, they will find in the valley of the Hopkins near Wick- 

 cliffe, and that of the Wannon near Glenthompson, splendid 

 opportunities for their investigations. 



NEW VICTORIAN MICRO-FUNGI. 

 By Dr. A. Morrison. 



Uromyces orchidearum, C. and M., Grev., xvi., 74 ; Cooke, 

 Handb., p. 332 ; Sacc, Syll., vii., 580. 



Pseudoperidia hypophyllous, scattered, sometimes forming pale 

 reddish brown orbicular spots, immersed, at first elliptical in 

 section, margin split into unequal whitish lobes and recurved 

 after rupture ; accidiospores orange yellow, ovate to subglobose, 

 and more or less compressed, verruculose, largest 18-231x1. x 

 i3-i8m. Sori mostly epiphyllous, discrete or confluent, bullate, 

 the pale brown cuticle at length split, sometimes also hypo- 

 phyllous. Uredospores intermixed with teleutospores in sori, 

 yellowish-brown, obovate or elliptical, echinulate, with hyaline 

 pedicels, largest 23-32111. x i6-23m. Teleutospores deep brown, 

 elliptical obovate or subglobose, with broad beak formed by 

 thickened epispore, largest 30-4301. x 17-23111. ; pedicels hyaline, 

 about twice as long as spores, tapering downwards from summit, 

 which may be 9m. or less in breadth. 



On leaves of ChUoglotlis diphylla, R. Br., Oakleigh, July. 



Teleutospores only hitherto described. 



PUCCINIA COPROSMATIS, 11. sp. 



Sori hypophyllous, seldom on upper surface of leaves, pro- 

 minent, deep brown (castaneus, Sacc), sometimes with thin paler 

 primrose covering, becoming surrounded with ring of discoloured 

 leaf tissue, which may extend through to upper surface ; the 

 smallest spherical 66m. in diameter, the largest 2mm., lobulated 

 evidently from coalescence of several, bordered by remains of 

 epidermal covering or naked, sometimes deforming the leaves, of 

 which those at the tips of the branchlets are most affected. 

 Spermogones numerous, clustered, immersed among teleutospores 

 or separate, while immature mammillary or subglobose, with 

 conoid apiculus, brown-black from network of black lines on 

 outer surface, spermatia of brownish tinge, fusiform, variable in 

 length and in thickness. Teleutospores compact, brown, the two 



