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AUSTRALASIAN FUNGI. 
Pestalozzia casuaxmae, Cice. $ Mass. 
Acervulis gregariis, minutis, ellipticis, pustulafformibus, epider- 
mide fissa cinctis ; conidiis fusiformibus, loculis duobus centralis 
fuscis, 10-12 X 6-7 p, loculo superiori conoideo, hyalino, aristato; 
aristis 3, divergentibus (cum conidiis 45-50 p long) basidiis 
hyalinis, sursum incrassatis. 
In ramulis Casuarince. Melbourne ( Miss Campbell 402). 
Physalospoxa phyllodise, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Peritheciis tenuissimis, immersis, cuticula nigricantia superne 
tectis. Ascis clavato-stipitatis, octosporis, paraphysatis. Sporidiis 
ellipticis, intus granulosis, continuis, hyalinis, 20x8 /a. 
On phyllodes of Acacia suaveolens. Melbourne ( Miss Campbell 
413). 
Sphaexella Banks! ee, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Epiphyllis. Maculis nullis, peritheciis gregariis, subinnatis, 
atris, poro pertusis. Ascis clavatis, octosporis. Sporidiis biseriatis, 
ellipticis, didymis, hyalinis, 12x5 p. 
On fading leaves of BanJcsia integrifolia. Melbourne ( Miss 
Campbell 403). 
*©idium lycopexsicum, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Cmspitulis effusis, indeterminatis, albis, mycelio arachnoideo, 
hyphis brevibus, ramulosis, erectis. Conidiis subglobosis, con- 
catenatis, hyalinis, 8-9 p diam. 
On stems and leaves of Solanum ly coper sicum. Upper Yarra. 
PHILLIPS’S “ BKITISH DISCOMYCETES.”* 
Through several weary years Mycologists were anxiously expect- 
ing the appearance of this work, and, we doubt not, now that it has 
at last gladdened their eyes, they feel amply rewarded for their 
patience. “ Hope deferred almost made the heart sick,” but hopes 
realized made those hearts revive. It is always a source of pleasure 
when one takes up a book with the feeling that it is sure to represent 
the results of a large amount of patient labour and careful study, 
a feeling so utterly different from that with which one scans a 
piece of literary job-work, “ done to order,” with no heart in it, 
and no evidence of the least personal exertion, or personal interest, 
beyond getting it finished — and paid for. The little volume before 
us is, after all, like its author, a modest and unobtrusive one, and 
yet one likely to be of great practical utility. Unfortunately, 
there are a few typographical blunders, which had better have been 
absent, but these will detract nothing from the excellencies of the 
“ manual.” There is a copious glossary of terms at the end, 
* “A Manual of the British Discomycetes,” by William Phillips, F.L.S. 
(“ International Scientific Series,” Vol. lxi.). London : Kegan Paul, Trench, 
and Co., 1887. 
