8 Transactions. 
In Australia McAlpine (1906, pp. 91 and 165) records two rusts, 
Uromyces Asperulae McAlp. and Puccinia Oliganthae McAlp., as occurring 
on Asperula. The latter species closely resembles P. punctata, but differs 
in the more acuminate and narrower teleutospore. 
n our form the aecidia differ slightly from the European in being 
amphigenous and caulicolous, but, as the peridial and spore characters are 
ideni I have thought it better to maintain all spore forms under the 
one name. 
8. Puccinia Wahlenbergiae n. sp. (Fig. 84.) Campanulaceae. 
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ПІ. Teleutosor hypophyllous, caulicolous, and on inflorescences, on 
leaves orbicular, 1 mm. diam., scattered, on stems linear, 1:5 mm. ong 
compact, aes, pallid brown, naked or surrounded by the ruptured 
epide Spores fusiform or subclavate, 35-50 x 12-19 mmm. ; apex 
strongly acuminate, thickened up to 18 mmm., base attenuate; slightly 
or not constricted at the septum; epispore smooth, hyaline, or tinted 
brown, 1-5-2 mmm. thick, cell-contents vacuolate, tinted brown : pedicel 
persistent, continuous with the spore, hyaline, stout, up to 30 x 10m mmm. ; 
 germ-pore of the upper cell apical, conspicuous, basal pore immediately 
ence the septum, obscure. 
Host: Wahlenbergia albomarginata Hook. On leaves, stems, and inflor- 
escences. Herb. No. 592. ПІ. Tokaanu-Waiouru Road, Taupo, pu m., 
E. Н. Atkinson! 12 Mar., 1922. (Type. 
The host is endemie, and is ES in hilly and mountainous mee 
throughout. (Cheeseman, 1906, p. 403. 
This rust is characterized by the strongly acuminate apex and persistent 
stout pedicels of the teleutospores. 
9. Puccinia Celmisiae n. sp. (Figs. 86, 121.) Compositae. 
Uredo Жами Cke., Grev., vol. 14, p 89, 1886. Uredo Compositarum var. 
Celmisiae Cke., Grev., vol. 19, p. 3, 1890. 
, 1. Unknown. 
II. Uredosori amphigenous, seated on discoloured spots, orbicular, 
l mm. diam., scattered, or circinnate, when circles up to 5 mm. diam., 
bullate, pulverulent, reddish-orange, becoming pallid yellow with age, on 
the lower surface deeply buried in the dense tomentum of the leaf, on the 
upper surface long covered by the cuticle. Spores globose or obovate, 
25-40 x 23-30 mmm.;  epispore hyaline, sciebat closely and finel 
echinulate, Ware mmm. thick, cell-contents granular, yellow; germ-pores 
scattered, 6-8, o 
t 
brown. Spores нти elliptical, 50-62 х 30-36 mmm. ; apex rounded, 
seldom acuminate, not or slightly thickened, base rounded or attenuate, 
both cells the same size and colour; not or IRR constricted at the 
septum; epispore smooth, chestnut- brow wn, 2-3 m thick, cell-contents 
granular; pedicel deciduous, hyaline, fragile, 30 x x 10 mmm.; germ-pore 
of the upper cell apical, obscure, basal pore immediately beneath or l way 
below the septum, obscure 
