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Notes on Australian Fungi. 

 Collated by J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. 



[Read August 6th, 18S9]. 



List of Fungi, New or Rare for South Australia. 



The followiiif^ species were collected by Mr. J. G. 0. Tepper, 

 and named by Prof. P. Andrea Saccardo, of Padua, through the 

 kindness of Dr. F. Ludwig, Germany : — ■ 



Uromyces Tepperianus, Sacc, sp. n. On Acacia salicina. It 

 attacks the younger branches, causing fusiform swellings several 

 inches in length, and in the middle two to four times the 

 diameter of the branch. The bark bursts finally in several 

 places, and the brown spores thickly cover the surface of the 

 wounds. The branches, and finally the shrub, so attacked die 

 after one to three years, or support life in a stunted form to an 

 indefinite extent. 



Black Hill, N.E. of Adelaide ; Sandy Cr., Callington. Octo- 

 ber to November, 1887. 



DiMEROSPORiUM LuDwiGiANUM, Sacc, sp. u. On Lagenopliora 

 Billarclieri, forming raised pustules on the leaves ; spores 

 ferruginous. Common in open woody hill districts. 



Clarendon, Angaston, kc, November, 1887. 



Capxodium elongatum, B. (& D. It is distributed over the 

 leaves of some species of Acacia. 

 Williamstown, October, 1888. 



Ch^etomium comatum (TocleJ, Fr. A black rust upon straw, 

 Norwood, 1888. 



Septoria Bromi, Sacc. On the leaves of Kcderia phleoides 

 (an introduced grass). 



Murray Bridge, November 1887. 



Heterobotrys paradox a, Sacc, gen. and sp. n. Dr. Ludwig 

 states that it was found on all specimens of Bertya rotundifolia, 

 a Kangaroo Island plant. 



The following remarks are taken from letters and publications 

 by Dr. Ludwig, in the "Bot. Central Blatt," No. 11, 1888 :— "The 

 leaves of this small shrub are rough, of a dull dark green, and 

 densely covered by minute hairlets of a peculiar structure. The 



