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VOL. 2 of Botanical Reprints from the University of Sydney shows very valuable work in progress on characteristic groups of the Australian flora. A. Burges has a first paper upon the rust fungi of the Dominion, which deals most appropriately with the genus Uromycladium, in which six of the seven species are endemic to Australia and restricted to the genus Acacia for their host plants. Gladys Carey continues her study of the embryology of viviparous seeds, examining two of the mangrove species from tropical Queensland. Lilian Fraser has two papers upon the sooty moulds of New South Wales those curious fungi that are found superficial upon branches and leaves, living upon the honey-dew secreted by scale insects and aphides; she also describes some of the Mycetozoa of the same State. I. V. Newman, in continuation of earlier studies of the Australian acacias, has two papers dealing with the floral organs and their development, fertilisation and embryology in Acacia Baileyana, whilst Joyce W. Vickery deals with the vegetative reproduction by underground tubers of two species of Drosera common as winter herbs in the Sydney district. The Botanical Department thus bears witness to its active interest in the flora of the Australian dominion.
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Botany in the University of Sydney. Nature 137, 229–230 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137229d0
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