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Filaments erumpent, slender, 2-3 m.m. 
long, densely crowded, curved and inter- 
woven, bright brown, forming extended 
patches on the under surface of the leaf. 
The filaments are soft and gelatinous 
when moist, and consist of bright brown, 
smooth, obovate or broadly elliptical one- 
celled teleutospores loosely scattered in 
the central portion of a very thick, colour- 
less, gelatinous sheath ; the teleutospores 
measure 25-30 x 14-18 p, and each one 
is furnished with a single, well-defined 
apical germ-pore. 
On leaves of Capparis. Belgaum, Bom- 
bay. (Major-Gen. Hobson.) 
Fig. 1, filaments of teleutospores, x 
100. Fig. 2, portion of a filament, with 
free teleutospores, x 400. 
The points in which the present fungus 
differs from the generic features of Cro- 
nartium are (1) the entire absence of 
uredospores; (2) the teleutospores being 
loosely scattered in a thick, gelatinous 
sheath. The teleutospores at first form 
a circular cushion below the epidermis, 
and as the spores mature the cuticle is 
raised, and at length ruptured, when 
the mature spores are expelled along with 
a quantity of mucus, and form a curled 
filament. When the teleutospores are 
first expelled a hyaline pedicel is more 
or less evident at the base of each ; these, 
however, eventually deliquesce, and add to the bulk of the muci- 
laginous sheath. The formation of teleutospores continues for 
some time in the substance of the leaf, and are expelled as they 
become mature, thus increasing the length of the filament by 
additions to its base. 
Cronartium cappdridis. 
AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
Supplement to Handbook, by M. C. Cooke. 
The following are additions and corrections made since the 
“ Handbook ” was printed 
Agaricus (Xepiota) stenophyllua, Cke. Mass. Hdbk. Austr. Fun., 
p. 7, No. 2G. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, hemispherical, then plane, the brownish 
cuticle broken into depressed, persistent scales, margin incurved 
(to 10 c.m. diam.). Stem elongated, 15 c.m. long, 3 c.m. thick 
