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AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
*Licea spumarioidea, Cke. $ Mass. 
iEthalia irregularia, cinerea, cortex membranacea, venis ramu- 
losis reticulata, sporangiis mox diffluentibus, capillitio obsoleto. 
Sporis majusculis, sphaericis, rotundato -verrucosis, flavis 16-18 yx. 
Running over twigs and on the ground. Near Melbourne. 
( Header , 15). 
*Hemiarcyria fuliginea, Cke. $ Mass. 
Hyphis anastomosantibus, spinulosis (3-4 yx diam.), spinulis 
unilateralibus, spiraliter dispositis ; sporulis globosis, glabris, vix 
decoloratis (8 yx diam.). Capillitio sporisque in massam fuligineo. 
On leaves of Atherospermum. Mount Wilson, N.S.W. ( Hamil- 
ton , 646.) 
Imperfect, the peridia being destroyed, and nothing remaining 
but the mass of capillitium and spores. 
♦Uromyces Orchidearum, Cke. ty Mass. 
Epiphyllus, erumpens. Acervulis bullatis, demum fissuratis, 
fuscis. Teleutosporis subglobosis, longe pedicillatis, laete fuscis, 
apice apiculatis (40x30 yx). Episporio crasso, hyalino, sporo- 
phoris crassiusculis duplo longioribus, deorsum attenuatis. 
On leaves of Chiloqlottis diphulla. Mount Victoria. (Hamil- 
ton , 659.) 
*Puccinia Wurmbe®, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Soris elongatis, bullatis, atrofuscis. Uredosporis ellipticis, 
granulatis, fuscis 25-28 x 15-18 yx. Teleutosporis clavatis, uni- 
septatis, leniter medio constrictis, loculo superiore convexo, trun- 
cato-ve, obscuriori, loculo inferiori triquetro, deorsum in stipite 
hyalino attenuato, episporio laevi, 60-70 x 20-25 yx. 
On leaves of Wurmbea dioica. Beltana, Australia. {Mrs. 
Richards .) 
*Asterina (Asteridium) Eucalypti, C. <$• M. 
Densissime gregaria. Peritheciis minutis, discoideis, applanatis, 
atris. Ascis tetrasporis, pyriformibus, sporidiis elongato-ellipsoideis, 
triseptatis, constrictis, fuscis, loculo penultimo incrassatis, 28 X 
10 p. 
On dead leaves of Eucalyptus amygdalina. Melbourne. ( Rea- 
der , 47.) 
*B.hizina ferruginea, Phillips. 
Apothecia orbicularia, sessilia, concava, demum subapplanata, 
margine integro, leniter elevato vel incurvo, hymenio fuligineo- 
fusco, extus tomentello ferrugineo-fusco, ascis cylindraceo-clavatis, 
sporidiis ellipticis, uni-vel biguttulatis, asperulis (20-23 x 4-5 yx) 
paraphysibus superne incrassatis, septatis. 
On dead wood. Victoria, Australia. ( C . French .) 
Cups \ to nearly 1 in. broad ; rigid when dry, gelatinous and 
tough when moist. Very nearly allied to Rhi$ina Thwaitesii } B., 
but the sporidia do not approach fusiform, and the exterior is not 
clad with the black hairs of that species. 
