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_DIACHAA, Fries. 
Sporangium stipitate; stem prolonged within the sporangium as a 
columella, and, together with it, filled with small granules of lime ; capillitium 
of threads extending from the rigid columella to the wall of the sporangium, 
becoming thinner and thinner, combined into a thick net. Cooke FLandb. 
Austr. Fungi. 
D. leucopoda, Bull. Cke. Handk. Austr. Fung. 403, Cke. Myx. 44, fig. 178. 
Sporangium cylindrical, obtuse, stipitate; stem short, thickened at the base 
‘snow-white, prolonged within the sporangium into a cylindrical, obtuse, 
white columella, not reaching to the apex ; threads of the capillitium whitish, 
thin; spores translucent, violet, beautifutly iridescent 7-9 » diam. ; 
Hab.: Ona living plant of Ophiopogon growing in a bush house at Indooroopilly. 
USTILAGO, Pers. 
U. australis, Cooke’s Handbook of Aust. Fung. 324, Produced within 
the ovaries; spores black, subglobose or angular and deformed, smooth, 8 p 
diameter, or 8 x G-p. 
Hab.: On infloresence of an Eriachne, Muckadilla, Mrs. Trenouta. 
VERMICULARLA, Fries. 
Perithecia erumpent or: subsuperficial, thin-carbonaccous, black, globose 
- e6nical, at length concave, the summit perforated or mouthless, clothed with 
rigid somewhat long sooty septate bristles, sporules cylindric-fusoid, often 
unequal-sided, continuous, hyaline, on various basidia. 
V. herbarum, West. Sace. Syli. Fung. IIT., 226. Perithecia somewhat 
loose, gregarious, erumpent-superficial, globose, depressed } mm. diameter, 
black, covered with crowded rigid, unequal, dark bristles. Sporules cylindrical, 
nearly straight, obtusely rounded at the ends, 20-22 x 3-4 p, granulose, 
hyaline. 
Hab.: Destructive to Carnation plants in a Brisbane garden. ‘This fungus is known to 
infest. plants of Dianthus, Solanum, Sedum, Yucea, &c., in Europe and South Africa. 
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