142 * THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



been found in Queensland on Hypochoiris glabra, L., and now it 

 is recorded for the first time in Victoria on the same host plant. 



1. Septoria tabacina, n. sp., Tobacco Septoria. 



Spots scattered or confluent, frequently extending over entire 

 leaf, orbicular or irregular, somewhat translucent when held up 

 to the light, very pale brown, averaging 8-10 mm. broad, with 

 minute, black, punctiform pustules on both surfaces of leaf, 

 but most numerous on under surface. 



Perithecia depressed-globose, fragile, pale blue by transmitted 

 light, with wide mouth, 130-180 fx diameter. 



Sporules hyaline, numerous, straight, curved, or flexuous, blunt 

 at both ends or only at one end, i-, 2-, and occasionally 3-septate, 

 30-43 X 2-3 ju. 



On leaves of Nicotiana suaveolens. October, 1899. Mallee, 

 Victoria ; C. French, jun. 



This species destroys the leaves of the Native Tobacco, some- 

 times causing actual perforations or entire portions to fall away. 

 The sporules are all slender, but sometimes very crooked and with 

 one half separated by a septum much stouter than the other half. 



It differs from S. nicotiance, Pat., found in Ecuador, in the 

 absence of concentric zones and red margins to the spots, in 

 the larger perithecia and the shorter sporules, which are found 

 to be 3-4 -septate and 50-55 /x long. 



2. PucciNiA HiERACii, Mart. 



Uredospore and teleutospore sori on both surfaces of leaves, 

 but particularly on upper, of Hypochceris glabra, L. October, 

 1899. Mallee, Victoria ; C. French, jun. 



AN ABNORMAL FORM OF THE FOXGLOVE 



FLOWER. 



By D. M'Alpine. 



On the ist of December I received from Mrs. Parsons, Olinda, 

 near Bayswater, a specimen of Foxglove with a regular bell- 

 shaped flower at the top of the stalk, requesting an explanation 

 of the unusual appearance, and for various reasons I consider 

 it worthy of mention among the Natural History Notes. It is 

 no uncommon thing (at least I have several times met with it) to 

 find the cultivated Foxglove producing a flower at the end of 

 the stalk, but then it is no longer irregular, like the ordinary 

 lateral flowers, but regular. I have never met with this appear- 

 ance in a plant growing wild, so that it appears to be a product 

 of cultivation. Not only was this specimen bell-shaped and 

 regular, but the symmetry in number of the difterent parts was 

 remarkable. There were 13 green sepals of the usual shape 

 crowded together. Then the bell-shaped corolla had 13 lobes, 

 each one corresponding to a petal. The stamens were also 



