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1924. Aspergillus Muelleri. Berk. Linn. Journ. xui., 175. 
Sctcc. Syll. 319. 
Snowy white, mycelium creeping ; fertile threads erect, rather 
flexuous; conidia unequal, elliptic, and obovate, minutely rough, 
10-12 fi diam. 
On Lepiota bubalina, etc. Victoria. 
1925. Aspergillus roseus. Link. Berk. Eng. FI. v„ 340. 
Sacc. Syll. 326. 
Mycelium thin, creeping ; fertile threads simple, not septate ; 
conidia globose, minute, rose colour, produced in chains. 
On soil. Victoria. 
1926. Aspergillus Cookei. Sacc. Syll. No. 342.= Aspergillus 
mucoroideus. Cooke Grev. xii., 9. 
Gregarious ; mycelium white, intricately interwoven ; fertile 
threads erect, hyaline, continuous, crowned with a large, globose 
Vesicle ; basidia short, cylindrical ; conidia for a long time per- 
sistent, globose, brown, 4 p, diam., produced in chains, forming a 
globose, black capitulum. 
On dead plants and leaves. Queensland. Victoria. Roebuck 
Bay. Arnheim’s Land. (Fig. 299.) 
Genus 5. PENICILLIUM. Link. 
Sterile hyphas creeping, septate ; fertile threads at the apex un- 
equally verticillately branched, or penicillate. Conidia splneroid, 
produced in chains, hyaline, or brightly coloured. 
1927. Fenicillium glaucum. Link. Obs. i., 15.= Penicillium 
crustaceum. Fr. Syst. Myc. in., 407. Sacc. Syll. 373. 
Mycelium effused, creeping, white, sterile hyphae creeping, 
intricate, septate ; fertile hyphaj erect, branched in a penicillate 
manner at the apex, branches solitary, or in pairs, erect, once or 
twice forked at the apex ; branchlets erect ; conidia seated at the 
apices in chains, sphairical or broadly elliptic, smooth, verdigris- 
green, hyaline, 4 p. diam. 
On fruit, leaves, stems, etc. N.S. Wales. Victoria. (Fig. 300.) 
Genus 6. RHINOTRICHUM. Cor da. 
Saprophile. Sterile byphee creeping, fertile erect, almost simple, 
denticulate, and spore-bearing at the apex. Conidia ovoid or 
oblong, hyaline, or pallid, or brightly coloured. 
1928. Rliinotrichuni microsporum. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 272. 
Sacc. Syll. 447. 
Threads adglutinate, forming nearly cylindrical clubs, the apices 
cylindrically clavate, bearing spicules; conidia globose, minute, 
5-6 /j. diam. 
On the ground. Tasmania. 
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