Puccinia Caryophyllaceae, Malvaceae. 177 



On leaves and stems of Kochia sedifolia F. v. M.; Kochia villosa, Lindl.; 

 and Etichylaena tomentosa R. Br. 



Victoria Dimboola, Nov. and Dec. (Reader). 



I have some of the material from Dimboola, portion of which was sent 

 to Massee, and the golden-brown uredospores are seen along with the 

 teleutospores. No uredospores were mentioned in the original description, a 

 striking feature of which is the numerous germ-pores. The teleutosporen 

 have occasionally their septum lengthwise. 



(Plate XL, Pigs. 95, 96.) 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



Stellaria. 



109. Puccinia arenariae (Schum.) Schroet. 



Schroeter, Pilz. Schles., p. 345 (187 2). 

 Sydow,Mon. Ured., I., p. 553 (1903). 

 Sacc. Syll. VII., p. 683 (1888). 



III. Teleutosori compact, pulvinate, roundish, scattered, often circinate, 

 pale-brown to dark-brown. 



Teleutospores fusoid or clavate, apex pointed or rounded, 

 often thickened (6-8 p), base rounded or attenuated, slightly 

 constricted at septum, smooth, pale yellowish brown, 

 30-50 x 14-20 p, average 35 x 16 p, very rarely tricellular, 

 48 x 16 p j pedicels hyaline, persistent, equal to or longer than 

 the spores, 60-100 p. 



X. Mesosperes occasional, similarly coloured to teleutospores, obovoid 

 or somewhat wedge-shaped, rounded or obtusely pointed or 

 truncate at apex and thickened up to 6 p, generally resembling 

 the upper cell of the teleutospore, with elongated pedicel, 22-29 

 X 16-17 p. 



On leaves and stems of Stellaria media Cyrill. 



Victoria Gellibrand, Feb., 1896 (Hill). Gembrook Ranges, April, 



1904 (C. French, jun.). 



The germ- tubes of the sporidiola of this species have been known to enter 

 the stomata of Dianthus barbatus L., and it seems to be the only known case 

 in the genus Puccinia of such germ-tubes entering stomata. 



(Plate XII., Fig. 97.) 



MALVACEAE. 



Abutilon, Hibiscus. 



110. Puccinia heterospora Berk, and Curt. 



Berkeley and Curtis, Journ. Linn. Soc. X., p. 356 (1868). 



Cooke, Handb. Austr. Fung., p. 338 (1892). 



Sydow, Mon. Ured. I., p. 472 (1903). 



Sacc. Syll. VII., p. 695 (1888). 



III. Teleutosori minute, hypophyllous, soon naked, crowded in orbicular, 

 glomerules, dark-brown, on determinate purplish or yellow spots. 



Teleutospores very variable in size and shape, smooth, thick- 

 walled and more deeply thickened at apex, dark chestnut-brown, 

 elliptic or oblong, not or scarcely constricted at septum, 

 occasionally divided vertically, 20-38 x 17-28 jt ; pedicel hyaline, 

 slender, elongated, three to four times as long as spore. 



