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1718. Tilletia caries. Tul. Mem. Ust. 1 1 3.=Tilletia tritici. 
Sacc. Syll. 1760. 
Pustules black, then olive-brown, odour foetid, developed in the 
ovaries, always covered by the epidermis, soon powdery. Spores 
globose, 14-20 p., brown, reticulated, areolae 3 g broad. 
In ovaries of wheat. S. Australia. Victoria. N.S.Wales. 
Queensland. Tasmania. (Fig. 257.) 
1719. Tilletia epiphylla. B. <£• Br. Brisbane Fungi No. 237. 
Sacc. Syll. 1783. 
Pustules short, epiphyllous ; spores globose, 35 /x diam., 
granular within, even, brown. 
On leaves of maize. Queensland. 
Genus 3. EUTTLOMA. DeBary. 
Mycelium intercellular, not gelatinous; spores solitary, some- 
times crowded ; epispore thick, often stratified, hyaline or coloured, 
even or foveolate ; promycelium filiform, sporidioles acrogenous, 
elongated. Conidia acrogenous on short hyphse, forming indeter- 
minate white tufts. 
1720. Entyloma eugeniarum. Che. § Mass. Grev. xix., 92. 
Sori in irregular dark brown pustules, which are flattened, 
rounded or confluent and then angular (1 m.m.), collected in large 
hypophyllous patches. Spores globose, oblong, or angular (10-20 x 
10-12 fi). Epispore very thick, even, pale brown. 
On leaves of Eugenia. Queensland. (Fig. 262.) 
Genus 4. SFHACELOTHECA. DBy. 
Part of the mycelium converted into a central fleshy columella, 
surrounded by the mass of spores. Spores solitary, sporidiola 
acrogenous, on a septulate promycelium. 
1721. Sphacelotlieca hydropiperis. Schum. Sacc. Syll. 
1834.=Ustilago candollei. Tul, Mem. 
Horn-shaped, evolved in the more or less swollen ovaries, 
replete with dark violet powder, opening at the apex and emitting 
the spores ; spores solitary, globose, or ellipsoid or rounded, 
angular, 9-20x8-12 g, or 8-17 //,. Epispore even, dark violet, 
delicately grauulose. 
In ovaries of Polygonum. (Fig. 262.) 
var. columellifera, Berk. (U. Berkeleyana, Fisch. d Waldh.), 
differs only in the more distinct columella, or what appears to be a 
columella. 
On Polygonum. Australia. (Fig. 262a.) 
Genus 5. DOASSANSIA. Cornu. 
Spores agglomerated, even, enclosed in a common tegument 
formed from closely adnate, simple, sterile cells. 
1722. Doassansia punctiformis. Wint. Fungi Austr. 1886, 
p. 207. Sacc. Syll. 1847. 
Pustules amphigenous, globose, punctiform, very minute, 
scattered or rather gregarious, brownish ; spores numerous, con- 
