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UsTiLAGO UTRICULOSA (Mout., Nees)^ Winter ; in the flowers 

 of Polygonum minus ; V., S.A. % 

 " (Emodensis, Berkeley ; Q.). 



(bullata, Berkeley : S.A., V., N.S.W.). 

 " (piLULiFORMis, Tulasne ; V.). 



* " Tepperi, Ludwiy, sp. nov. 



Spores powder-like, black, replacing more or less completely 

 the flowering panicle and other parts above the rootstock, form 

 spheroidal or shortly elliptical, diameter=12-17 u ; colour, deep 

 brown ; epispores papillose to aculeate. 



Habitat. — South Australia. 



This smut attacks, AmpJdpoc/on strictum, Neurachne alopecu- 

 roides and Dantlionia jjenicillata, and is at times quite common. 

 It has been observed at Ardrossan (Yorke's Peninsula), Calling- 

 ton, Clarendon, and about Adelaide from about the end of Sep- 

 tember to December. 



CiNTRACTEA (UsTiLAGo) AXICOLA, Berkeley ; in panicles and 

 fruits of Cyperus, Fimhristylis, and Scirpus / 

 Queensland. 



* DoASSANSiA PUNCTiFORMis, Winter ; upon leaves of Lythrum 



Jiyssopifoliuni ; S.A. % 



* Thecaphora globuligera. Berk, (t Br. : in the glumes of 



Leersia hexandra ; N.S.W., Q. 

 SORASPORIUM MuELLERiANUM, Thuemen : in the panicles of 

 Cladium filum ; V. (S.A.?). 

 " Eriachnis, Thuemen; in the spikelets of 



Eriacline ; Q. 



* Cerebella Paspali, Cke. <t Mass. ; upon Paspalum scrobicida- 



tuin ; Trop. Australia. 



