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perhaps seen at its best. Upon arrival at Frankston we kept 

 towards Mount Eliza, but owing to the short time at our disposal 

 were able to travel but a few miles from and to the railway 

 station. Orchids were fairly numerous, Prasophyllum, Pterostylis, 

 Lyperanthus, and other ordinary species being beautifully in 

 flower, the whole place being one continuous mass of bloom. The 

 beautiful Euphrasia Bmwnii grows here as we had never before 

 seen it, the variety also being much darker than usual. Amongst 

 bog plants we noticed the elegant Drosera binata and D. glanduli- 

 gera, also Lycopodium laterale and other well-known plants. 

 Insects were scarce, although some specimens of Curculionidre, 

 Cleridae, Staphylinidae. Xylonychus, &c, were captured, it being 

 too early in the season for most insects, especially for the 

 Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. — C. French. 



NOTICES OF VICTORIAN FUNGI. 



By Dr. A. Morrison. 



New or Imperfectly Described Uredine/E — continued. 



Puccinia coprosmatis, var. opercularia;. 



Son hypophyllous, deforming the leaf and forming a concavity 

 on the opposite side, prominent, surface and border uneven and 

 lobed, with small islands outside their margin, reddish brown with 

 a thin pruinose stratum on surface, and remains of cuticle 

 occasionally seen at border or between the lobules, zone of leaf 

 surrounding them discoloured yellowish. Teleutospores reddish 

 brown in the mass, pale yellowish brown singly, densely packed 

 in the sorus, outline generally oblong-fusiform, the distal cell 

 bluntly pointed and the lower tapering to the pedicel, with a 

 slight constriction between the two ; largest 40-50^/. x 13-20/x. ; 

 pedicels considerably longer than spores. 



Scantily disposed on leaves and petioles of young plants of 

 Opercidaria varia, J. D. H., Oakleigh, November. 



The prominent compact and lobulate or composite character of 

 the sorus, and the general agreement between the teleutospores 

 of this and the preceding, sufficiently indicate specific identity, 

 while the differences in leaf structure between the two allied host- 

 plants may suffice to account for the minor variations in the spores 

 in the two cases. The leaf of Goprosma Billardieri is thin and 

 almost membranous in texture and of a dingy colour, and at the 

 same time the teleutospores of its fungus are darker and less 

 plump than those of the Opercularia form, which are brighter and 

 larger, just as tin: host-leaves are of a brighter green and thicker 

 in texture. Mddium cystoseiroides, Berk., Fl. Tasm., ii., 270, 

 Sacc, Syll., vii., p. 833 ; Cooke, Handb., 341, on Opercularia 

 varia, is recorded from Tasmania. 



