AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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Sphaerella nubilosa, CJce. 
Hypophyllous. Spots orbicular or confluent and irregular, 
glaucous brown, soon falling away. Perithecia numerous, very 
minute (40-60 p diam.), scarcely visible to tbe naked eye, 
depressedly globose, membranaceous, brown, pierced at the apex. 
Asci clavate, 8-spored, sporidia fusiform, 2-4 nucleate then 
uniseptate, hyaline, 16 X 3 p. 
On living leaves of Eucalyptus. Victoria ( Martin 584). 
Erinella lutea, Phil. 
Gregarious or scattered, shortly stipitate, cupuiate, clothed at 
first with short whitish hairs, which become yellow, then yellowish 
brown ; margin at first indexed, then when moist erect ; 
hymenium orange-yellow ; asci broadly clavate, narrowing to an 
obtuse point at the summit ; sporidia 8, linear, multiseptate, 76- 
102 x 5-6 p ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 
On the bark of a tree, growing in the crevices of the bark, often 
in rows. Victoria, Australia. 
The cups are J to 2 lines broad ; the stem short, stout, glabrous, 
and usually dark-brown, sometimes nearly absent. The hairs are 
about 60-70 x 3-4 /x, slightly granular (in No. 368 septate) ; the 
asci are 105 x 15-17 p. 
This is near Erinella mniopsis (Ell.), Sacc., and E. calospora, 
Pat. and Gaill., but differs from the first in its straight, yellow 
brown hairs, and from the last, not only in the colour of the hairs, 
but in the stouter sporidia and slenderer paraphyses. 
Ombrophila trachycarpa, Phil. 
Subgregarious, sessile, concave, glabrous, wrinkled horizontally 
on the exterior, margin even, somewhat incurved ; firm, carti- 
laginous-gelatinous, dark red-brown throughout, paler within ; 
asci cylindrical, narrowed near the base ; sporidia 8, elliptic, tend- 
ing to fusiform, furnished with one large guttule, granulated on the 
surface, 20-25 x 10-14 p ; paraphyses rather stout, enlarged at 
the summits, septate. 
On sandy ground amongst mosses, probably growing on their 
protonema. Victoria, Australia. 
Cups J to | of an inch in diameter; asci 202 x 14 p. This is 
a close ally of O. terrestis , but the rough sporidia alone separate it 
from that species. 
Phyllosticta Platylobii, C. $ M. 
Spots irregular on both surfaces, pallid, with a narrow brown 
margin. Perithecia on the under surface, very minute, membra- 
naceous, rather prominent sporules minute, hyaline, 3 x 1 p. 
On living leaves of Platylobium. Victoria ( Martin 591). 
Gloeosporium pestiferum, Cke. <$■ Mass. 
Pustules gregarious, subcuticular, small, discoid, convex, rosey. 
Conidia oozing out and forming pink nodules resembling a small 
Tubercularia , cylindrical, rounded at the ends, straight, continuous 
granular within, hyaline, 14-15 x 3-4 p. 
