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3. Peziza violascens, Cooke, Mycogr. 46 (1879). 



4. Barla'xi persoonii, Saccardo, Syll. viii., p. 116 (1889). 



5. Barltea violascens, Massee, Brit. Fung. Flor. iv., 398 (1895). 



67. CONIOTHYRIUM BURCHARDLE, n.sp. 



Spots greyish, usually marginal, elongated, with broad dark 

 brown margin. Perithecia scattered, minute, black, punctiform, 

 at first covered, then erumpent, globose, membranaceous, of 

 parenchymatous texture, with apical pore, 100-140/x diam. 

 Sporules numerous, clear brown, ellipsoid, 8-9 x 4-5/x. 



Ringwood, Vic. ; on green leaves of Burchardia umbellata, 

 R.Br.; October, 1903 (C. French, Jr.). 



The perithecia were dark brown by transmitted light owing to 

 the contained spores, but when empty they were olivaceous. 



68. CONIOTHYRIUM PYCXANTH^, n.Sp. 



Spots rounded or irregular, somewhat indefinite, ruddy, often 

 confluent and forming small or large patches. Perithecia 

 scattered, erumpent, surrounded by ruptured epidermis, depressed- 

 globose, membranaceous, yellowish-brown by transmitted light, 

 with apical pore, 120-150/i diam. Sporules yellowish-brown, 

 oval to elliptical, or somewhat irregular and often unsymmetrical, 

 with single guttule, 6-8 x 2J-3/i. 



Myrniong, Vic; on phyllodes of Acacia jjycnantha, Benth., 

 Golden Wattle; July, 1900 (Brittlebank). 



Two species of this genus are recorded on branches of Acacia 

 in California, but the spores are entirely different. 



C. decipiens, Cooke & Harkn., has spores 4 x 3/z, and in C. 

 puncium, Cooke &, Harkn., they are 5yx in diam. 



69. Gl(eosporium acacia, n.sp. 



Spots on either surface of leaf, ruddy brown, slightly sunken, 

 but with raised margin. Pustules at first covered, then free and 

 bursting through epidermis, black, often arranged as a ring 

 around central pustule. Sporules hyaline, cloudy, elliptical to 

 cylindrical, acute or rounded at the ends, 10-13 x 2^-3/m; sporo- 



