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USTILAGO, Pers. 
U. leucoderma, Berk. (Cooke’s Handb. Austr. Fungi, 325.) Sori black, seated 
on large spots, somewhat covered with an unequal, whitish crust; spores 
rounded, rather irregular, 13-17 » diameter, opaque, black, even. Recorded 
several years ago in my Catalogue of Queensland Plants without description. 
Hab. : Formerly Bundaberg, J. Keys. The present habitat, Gatton, Z. Mf. Shelton. In the 
axils of the inflorescence of a form of the Common Nut-grass (Cyperus rotundus, Linn.) 
: PUCCINIA, Pers. 
P. caricis, Reb. (Sacc. Syll. Fung. VII. 626.) Spermogonia arranged in small 
or large heaps, honey-coloured, sporules ellipsoid, 4-5 x 2 w, yellowish ; xcidia 
disposed in single or double series on yellowish, reddish or reddish-purple 
spots on the underside of the leaves and on the stems; pseudo-peridia cup- 
shaped, flattened, broad, margins white, lacero-denticulate ; «cidiospores : 
polygonal, minutely warted, 16-26 x 12-204, orange. Uredospores in orbicular 
or ellipsoid or oblong sori. Sori girdled with fissure of the epidermis, brown, 
shortly pedicellate; paraphyses none; teleutospores in elongate sori, either 
under the leaves or on the stems, erumpent, girded by fissures of the bark, 
black-brown or nigricant, crowded, clavate-oblong, the apex thickly incrassate, 
obtuse or rounded or explanate, middle region constricted, the base a narrow 
pedicel, 30-45, rarely 70 x 42-20 p, smooth, brown, pedicel, 20 x 6-12 p, rigid 
florescent persistent.—Sacc. lc. (Determined for me at Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England.) 
Hab. : Gatton, H. M. Shelton. On the leaves of a variety of the Common Nut-grass (Cyperus 
rotundus). Parasitic on the above fungus was Darluca filum, Cast. 
In Dr. M. ©. Cooke’s Handbook of Australian Fungi the above plant is 
noticed as under :—Meidium urtice, Schum. Spermogonia disposed in small 
or large heaps, honey-colour, sporules ellipsoid, 44 x 2 4; wcidia disposed in a 
single or double series on yellowish or reddish spots, on leaves or stems ; 
pseudo-peridia cup-shaped, flattened, with a whitish margin, which is toothed 
and reflexed; scidiospores polygonal, minutely warted, 16-26 x 12-20 p, 
orange. 
Hab. : On nettles, &c., Bacchus Marsh. 
PHYLLOSTICTA, Pers. 
P, flavidula, Sacc. Syll. Fung. III. 24. Spots various, girt when dry by a 
very pale-reddish border ; perithecia few, covered, lentiform, 100 » in diameter, 
pierced; sporules ovoid, 23-8 x 1, of yellowish transparency, the heaps 
honey-coloured.—Sace. I.c. (Determined for me at Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England.) 
Fab. : On leaves of Callistemon lanceolatus, Endeavour River, Miss Lovell. First: found on 
leaves of a plant of the same genus in a French garden.—Sace. l.c. 
GLO@OSPORIUM, Mont. 
G. carpophilum, Jfassee (n. sp.) Pustules erumpent, irregular in form, 
usually elongated, often anastomosing, 3-1; mm. long, amber colour. 
Conidia hyaline, continuous, cylindrical, ends obtuse, 15-18 x 3-4 p. 
Conidio-phores cylindrical, shorter than the conidia. (Zz letter from Royal 
Gardens, Kew, England.) 
Hab.: Mourilyan Harbour, on fruit of Xanthophullum Macintyrii. W.Mugford. 
