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PHYSARUM, Pers. 
P. didermoides, 4ch., Rost. Mon. Sace. Syll. Fung. vil ee 
Spumaria didermordes, Fries ; Didymium conges um, B. ane i 
Forming crowded patches very much resembling those of Diae “ 
elegans ; Peridia oboyate-oblong, cinereous, with a white mae ofr 
stems hyaline, membranaceous, generally dineact though crow tl 
spri caine from a thin subjacent membrane. ores black, bite 
=e the white coarse, irregular, here and there eenuene 2 : 
globose spores appear at first sight to be granulated, but on 2 
inspection the granules are found to arise from the disintegrate ou 
peridium.—Berk.,in Cooke’s Handbook of Brit. Fung 
Hab.: Gladfield, on scales of onions and bracts of maize, C. ¢ Goyther. 
GEASTER, Mich. 
G. Archeri, Berk., Fl. Tasm. ii. 264, t. 88 8, £.9; Sace., aya 
Cooke’s Austr. "Fungi 931, Outer peridium cut t to the mi 
ri 
globose, purplish umber; peristome elongated, conical, sale 
indistinctly marginate ; 2g Sees umber; spores globose, TU 
olive, even, 5p iam.— Oke. 5 8 
Gladfield, C. J. Gwyther. 
First met with in Tasmania. 
LYCOPE BDON, Tourn. Pe 
L. Gunnii, Berk., Fl. Tasm. ii, 265; Sece., Syll. vii. 38} 
Austr. Fungi. 239. Ses sile, snr lebose (1 ic 2 in. diam.), ¥ Jobose 
minute stellate warts. Colum a short ; eens "bright olive, 8 
with long pedicels (<5; in.). pay eé le 
Near Warwick, C. J. Gwyther. 
Also in the pastures of Tasmania and Victoria. 
SPHACELOTHECA, De Bary. 
— sphacelos, rottenness; and theca, capsule.) 
Part of the vob converted into a central fleshy ¢ 
<n by the mass of spores; spores solitary, SPO 
genous, on a septulate promycelium. —Cooke’s Austr. Fung: 
ke’s 
S. hydropiperis, Schwm.; Sacc. Syll. Fung. vil. 499, and (00 
pene Fung. 327; Cstilago Hy dropiperis, Schret , Uredo Hy for 
peris, Schum.; JU. ’ Bisto a oe garg Dis C in 4 
tarum, Link. ; ; Ustilago Candoli, Tul. Horn-s ae evol 
more or less swollen ovaries, replete with dark violet poxdens 
at the apex and emitting the spores ; spore solitary, pe 
ellipsoid or rounded, angular, 9-20 x 8-12 p», or 8-17 #3 epispo 
dark violet, delicately granulos se.—Cooke, l.c. 
Hab,: Gladfield, in the ovaries of a Polygonum, C. J. J. Gwyther in Europ? : : 
The ss — — infests the ovaries of many species of Poly 
and Ameri 
PUCCINIA, Pers. . 
P. carisse, Che, and Mass. (n. sp.). 
Hab. : Gladfield, on leaves of Carissa ovata, C. J. Gwyther. 
The author’s description not yet to hand. 
olumella, — , 
ola acto- 
