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PILOBOLUS, Tode. 
(From pilos, a cap, and boleo, to eject.) a 
Flocci simple, continuous, when mature ventricose above and | 
clavate, terminated by an indurated globose sporangium ; dehiscent; — 
including a globose sporidium.—Cooke in Handbook of British Fungi. — 
P. crystallinus, Zode. Apices of the flocci at length clavate, — 
obovate; sporangium hemispherical.—Oke. lc. “At first appearing — 
under the form of a small yellow Sclerotium, which gradually acquires — 
a stem, becomes inflated above, and loses its yellow hue; often — 
densely tufted ; very fugacious.”— Berkeley. 
Burpengary, on dung, Dr. J. Bancroft 3 
There are twelve species of this beautiful genus of moulds known; two, however, 1 
P. erystallinus and P. roridus, are the best known. This is, I think, the first time 
any have been met with in Australia. 
* SrRUMELLA saccHant, Osokc, Grey. xix.45. Pustules gregarious, — 
erumpent, black, patelloid or subclavate, with a short stem-like base, — 
or cylindrical-multiform (}-mm. diam.); hyphex short, hyaline, simple; — 
conidia cylindrically elliptical, continuous, pale-fuscous, 10 to 12x93 ¢. — 
Hab. : On dead sugar-cane, Brisbane, H. Zryon. 2 
__* Peronospora HyoscyaMt, D’ Bary. Mycelium conidiophorus, 
thick, tall, 5-7 or 8 times dichotomous ; branches spreading, attenuated — 
straight or slightly curved, the ultimate ones diverging in a very obtuse | 
angle, short, conico-subulate, straight, acute. | Conidia small ellipsoid, - 
very obtuse, membrane with a violaceous tint. 18-24 = 18- 
Hab.: On young tobacco plants near Brisbane, H. Tryon. The young tobacco 
bit ei found to be badly affected with this blight in most parts of Queensland 
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* Specific characters not given in Bulletin No. iv. (the first Botany Bulletin). — 
If the diagnosis is not to hand of any new cryptogamic plant when first recorded the — 
same will be given in some following Bulletin. 3 a 
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