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AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
Gen. 5. Phlebia, Fries. 
Fhlebia reflexa, B. Book. Journ., 1845. 
Victoria. 
Fhlebia hispidula, B. Linn. Journ. xvi., 167. 
S. Australia. 
Fhlebia coriacea, B. Linn. Journ. xviii., 385. 
Rockhampton. 
Fhlebia radiata, Fr. Bym. Fur., 625. 
Queensland. 
Gen. 6. Kneiffia, Fries. 
Kneiifla Mulieri, B. Linn. Journ. xvi., 167. 
S. Australia. 
Gen. 7. Grandinia, Fries. 
Grand, granulosa, Fr. Hym. Bur., 626, 
Tasmania. 
Grand, ocellata, Fr. TTym. Fur., 626. 
Chatham Island. 
Grand, australis, B. hi. Tasm. ii., 257. 
Tasmania. 
Gen. 8. Odontia, Pers. 
Odontia secernibilis, B. FI. Tasm. ii., 257. 
Tasmania. 
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE GERMINATION OF 
THE UREDINES* 
By Charles B 4 Plowright, M.R.C.S. 
While conducting the experiments upon the heteroecism of 
Puccinia graminis and JEcidium herberidis detailed in a recent 
number of “ Grevillea ” my attention was drawn more or less 
directly to the various processes which take place during the deve- 
lopment of these fungi. So interesting were these that I was 
induced to extend my observations to other allied species, and 
during the summer a continuous series of observations were 
carried on. As a matter of course, the ground has already been 
gone over by many other mycologists, and the classical memoirs 
of M. Tulasne, which are in themselves well-nigh exhausted, leave 
but little margin for startling discoveries of unexpected novelties ; 
yet so important is the subject in an economic point of view, and 
so interesting are many of the phenomena which take place, that 
I venture to bring the subject forward again, and to narrate what 
I saw as well as to add some of the more important observations 
of the distinguished French mycologist, M. Tulasne. 
* Read at the October meeting of the Woolhope Club, 1881. 
