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globate, rounded-polygonal, 10-12 p diam., or a little elongated, 
9 X 10| p ; epispore thin, equal, even, subhyaline, common tegu- 
ment formed from one stratum of parenchymatic cells, membrane 
thick, brown. 
On leaves of Lythrum hyssopifolium. Victoria. 
Genus 6. THECAPHOKA. Fing. 
Spores closely clustered in glomerules, with difficulty separated, 
large, convex on the free side, and flattened on the adhering side ; 
sporidiola fusoid, acrogenous. 
1723 . Thecapliora inquinans. B. <f- Br. Fungi Cey. 844. 
=Thecaphora globuligera. B. Br. Linn. Trans. 1879. 
Sacc. Syll. 1861. 
Pustules snbglobo8e or oblong, nestling in the pale®, composed 
of numerous spores, which are subglobose, 7-12 p diam. ; echi- 
nulate, pale brown; glomerules, 70-200 p diam. (The spores are 
pentagonal, with obtuse angles, united at the angles). 
On Leersia hexandra. Queensland. 
1724 . Thecapliora leptocarpi. Berk. Linn. Journ. xviii., 
388. Sacc. Syll. 1868. 
Glomerules composed of about 10 globose spores, which are a 
little compressed, but ultimately falling away into a black powder ; 
spores smooth, pale brownish, 12 p diam. 
In ovaries of Leptocarpus tenax. Wilson’s Promontory. (Fig. 
258.) 
Genus 7. SOROSPORIUM. Bud. 
Spores conglomerate about the hyphse, then gelatinously 
involved, when mature closely united in glomerules, then free, 
and falling away. 
1725 . Sorosporium eriachnes. Timm. Symb. Austr. No. 97. 
Sacc. Syll. 1885. 
Mature fruit changed into a black, powdery mass ; spores 
irregular or angular, subglobose, elliptic, or polyhedral, or quad- 
rangular, even, 10-14 p diam., united in small irregular glomerules, 
opaque, brown. 
On Eriachne. Queensland. 
1726 . Sorosporium Muellerianum. Thum. Symb. Austr. 
Sacc. Syll. 1884. 
Infesting the inflorescence, but scarcely visible to the naked 
eye; spores collected, up to 100, in dark brown subrotund glo- 
merules ; spores subglobose, or polyhedral, or ellipsoid, or sphe- 
rical, 8-16 p diam., brown, pellucid, epispore smooth. 
On Cladium filum. Victoria. 
