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OF AUSTRALIAN FVNGl—co/ituiued. 



Occurrence. 



General Characters. 



VALSACE^, FRIES. 

 S.V.S., -110 (1849).— Spliferia, 



16651 ... 



1666, 



N.S.W. 



Q. 

 Q- 



Dry branches 

 Bark 



Pyr. Germ. 163 (1867).— Valsa, Sphteria. 

 1667! ■•■ I ••• I ■■• I V. 1 ... I ... I B. I Branches... 



Stroma somewhat circular or often oval, abruptly tapering Into a disc of 



opeuings, becoming dusky, at length black. 

 Bursting through. Receptacles nestling in a white powdery layer. 



Somewhat round, immersed ; receptacle-bearing layer, white or dirty 

 white ; openings radiately stellate. 



COOKE, GREV. XIV. 93 (1886). 



Scliema Sfer. It. 29 (1870).— Diatrype, Sphffiria, Eutypa. 

 1668 W.A. I ... I T. I ... I ... 1 ... I B. I Dead branches ... 1 Elongated, emergent, black or grey. Receptacles gregarious, globose, 



Syll. I. 186 (1882).— Spbffiria. 



16691 



immersed in wood. 



Q. I ... j Fruit of Macrozamia \ Receptacles under epidermis, at first scattered, then crowded, black, 

 I I Hopei I springing from dark-brown filaments. 



Carp. II. 52 (18G1). — Spbseria, Valsa. 



Wood and bark 



Branches... 



Epicarp of Cucurhila 

 layenaria 



Receptacle-bearing layer long and broad, innate in wood or bark, brown 



or ashy. Receptacles immersed, spheroid. 

 Eeceptacle-bearing layer spreading. Receptacles globose, externally 



black, at first mealy white. 

 Receptacle-bearing layer black, poiut-like. Receptacles immersed. 



COOKE, GREV. XV. 83 (1887). 



Symb. Myc. 168 (1869).— Zignoella, Spbroria, Mclanomma. 



Rotten wocJd 

 Living twigs of Cas- 

 sinia acultala 



Crowded. Receptacles wrinkled, at length collapsing and cup shaped. 

 Receptacles densely crowded, at length run together in large patches, 

 globose, black, shining, smooth. 



SUPERFICIALES, FRIES. 



Grev. VII. 84 (1879).— Scortecbinia, Roselliuia, Spha;riii. 



Wood and bark 



Wood and liark 



Schema Sfer. 55 (1870). — Spba3ria, Leptospora. 



Bark 



Rotten wood 



Finely filamentous. Receptacles very small, globose, crowded, black, 

 not pap-like. 



Receptacles gregarious or densely crowded, globose, dark brown, pap- 

 like. 



Receptacles loosely gregarious, globose, covered with mealy fluffy 

 sulphur-coloured coat. Sporidia long, spindle shaped, with fifteen to 

 nineteen partitions. 



Receptacles gregarious, almost globose, covered with mealy fluffy 

 lemon-coloured coat. 



Fung. Arg. IV. 65 (1882). — Spb;i;ria, Coniocba;ta, Lasiosphajria. 



16791 W.A I— Rotten wood ... j Scattered, somewhat globose, collapsed and depressed at length, hairy, 



black. 



