284. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Aprin, 1899. 
Botany. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 
By F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., 
Colonial Botanist. 
Order GRAMINEX. 
PANICUM, Linn. 
P. piligerum, #7. v, WM. (Benth. Flora Austr. VII, 477.) Stems from a 
decumbent and branching base ascending to above 2 ft. Leaves more or 
less hairy, 6 to 8 or more inches long and about +-in. broad, tapering to fine 
points, the margins nerve-like; sheaths hirsute, the hairs arising from a 
tuberculose base. Panicle of 8 to 5 erect simple branches 1 to 2 in. long. 
Spikelets ovoid, acute, nearly 2 lines long, alternate along the broad flat 
rhachis, but rather distant so as to appear ina single row. Glumes hairy, the 
outer one short, 3-nerved; 2nd and 3rd 5-nerved, 3rd rather narrower than 
.the 2nd, but both empty and equal in length. Fruiting glume shorter, 
coriaceous, obtuse, without any or only a very minute and deciduous terminal 
point, minutely transversely rugose. 
Hab. ; Mackay, Z. G. Nugent. I believe Mr. Nugent’s specimens to be identical with the 
muvee of the Fl. Austr., so have extended the description there given from the specimens 
and, 
Order FUNGI. 
SPHAROTHECA, Lév. 
S. Castagnei Lev. On both surfaces mycelium effuse, arachnoid, often 
evanescent; perithecia scattered, sphwroid, minute; appendages numerous, 
short, turned upwards. (Determined by Mr. G. Massee, Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England.) 
Hab. : On the leaves of Cucumber plants in a garden at ‘Toowong. Found on the foliage of 
plants belonging to several other orders in Asia, America, and Europe. 
AACIDIUM, Pers. 
48. Plectroniz, Cooke. (Grev. X.124; Sace. Syll. Fung. VIT.795.) Hypophyllous. 
Heaps rotundate, nestling on orbicular discoloured spots. Peridia few, some- 
what prominent, margins sub-entire, pale. Spores yellow (?). 
Spermogonia on the upper surface of the same spots which bear the 
peridia.—Cooke, l.c. (Determined by Mr. G. Massee, of Kew, England.) 
Hab. : On leaves of Plectronia barbata, Endeavour River, Dr. W. E. Roth. 
PHOMA, Fries. 
P. ampelina, B. and C. (Cooke, in Handb. Austr. Fung. 347.) Subcuticular, 
hystertiform, swollen; sporules fusiform, 12 p long. Sphaceloma ampelinum, 
De Bary. (Conidial form.) (Determined by Mr. G. Massee, of Kew, 
England.) 
This destructive pest made its appearance in a vineyard near Brisbane 
during the early part of this summer; and, as probably much of the vines so 
diseased may at present be lying about the vineyard, this opportunity is taken 
to advise that all such diseased shoots be gathered up and burned, and, when 
the vines first burst into growth another year, that their shoots be dusted with 
slacked lime which has been finely powdered. This operation should be 
repeated at intervals of about a fortnight. Alternately with the lime may be 
used flowers of sulphur and lime; this is supposed to be the best preventive for 
the pest. 
P. sycophila, Massee (n. sp.). 
Description not yet to hand. 
Hab. : Found on leaves of an indigenous Ficus growing at the Endeavour River. 
