90 
AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
Boletus (Subtomentosi) brunneus, CJce. $ Mass. 
Pileus pulvinate, convex, subtomentose, at length cracking into 
innate scaly patches (10-12 c.m. broad), reddish brown. Stem 
short, thick, attenuated upwards (7 c.m. long, 5 c.m. thick at the 
base), colour of the pileus, striate with black, flesh whitish, blue 
when cut, at length brown. Tubes free, pores rather large, 
angular, greenish grey. Spores 14-15x4 p, olive. 
On the ground. Victoria. {Mrs. Martin , 611.) 
Corticium penetrans, Clce. Sf Mass. 
White, effused, incrusting, thick, soft, closely adnate, immar- 
ginate ; with a profuse penetrating floccose mycelium. Hymenium 
continuous, even, smooth, chalky. Spores pip-shaped, 9 x 7 p. 
On rotten wood, etc. Sorrento, Victoria. {Mrs. Martin , No. 635.) 
Resembling C. portentosum, but with different spores. 
Didymospheeria Banksiee, Cke. 
Epiphyllous, spots orbicular, pallid, with a nebulous brown 
margin ; perithecia few, central, erumpent by cracking the cuticle, 
black, subglobose, papillate. Asci clavate, sessile, octosporous ; 
sporidia biseriate, uniseptate, the upper cell nearly globose, the 
lower cell rather narrower, brown, 10 x 5 p. 
On living leaves of Banksia. Victoria. ( Martin , 685.) 
BZicrothyrium amygdalinum, Oke. Sf Mass. 
Perithecia gregarious or scattered, on both surfaces, superficial, 
and soon falling away, lenticular, membranaceous, very dark 
brown, with a radiating cellular structure, pierced in the centre ; 
asci clavate, sporidia without order, elliptical, attenuated towards 
each end, uniseptate, hyaline, 14x7 p. 
On living leaves of Eucalyptus amygdalina. Spencer’s Gulf. 
{Walt. Gill.) 
Communicated by Baron F. v. Mueller. 
Conisporium pterospermum, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pustules gregarious, small, erumpent, elliptical, or elongated, 
blackish, mycelium forming a kind of pulvinate stroma, from which 
arise short hyaline sporophores, conidia apical, subglobose or oblong 
in outline, becoming discoid when free, with a membranous margin, 
expanded into about six truncate projections, each of which is 
concave at the apex, spore body globose, continuous, olive-brown, 
12 /x, including the membranous expansion in one plane 25 p. 
On Lepido spermum. Victoria. {Martin, 778.) 
Cercospora Kennedy», Cke. Sf Mass. 
Epiphyllous. Spots cinnamon brown, irregular and confluent. 
Tufts scattered, black, punctiform, resembling a Venturia •, erum- 
pent. Threads fasciculate, simple, flexuous, sometimes nodulose, 
septate, pale olive. Conidia cylindrical, slightly attenuated up- 
wards, three septate, hyaline olive (40 x 3 p ) ; as long, or rather 
shorter than the threads. 
On leaves of Kennedy a pro strata. Victoria. {Mrs. Martin, 603.) 
