BY D. Mc ALPINE. 5G3 



60. Seynesia banksi^., Henn. 



Spots epiphyllous, brownish, roundish to indefinite, often con- 

 fluent, particularly along midrib. Perithecia gregarious, scuti- 

 form, radiate-cellular, black, with central irregular pore, 1 60-220 /z 

 diam. Asci ovoid to clavate or cylindric-clavate, rounded at 

 apex, ending abruptly at base or with very short pedicel, 8-spored, 

 variable in size, 40-65x16-25^. Sporidia distichous or conglo- 

 bate, subellipsoid to ovoid, brown, 1-septate, constricted at septum, 

 upper cell stouter, 15-19 x 7-9 /m. Paraphyses crowded, filiform, 

 hyaline, much branched. 



Dimboola Desert, Vic; on leaves of Banksia ornato, F.v.M., 

 Aug., 1896 (Reader): Gosford, N.S.W.; on leaves of Banksia sp., 

 April, 1902 (Pritzel): Eumundi, Q., Mslj, 1902 (Pritzel). 



'Jliis species had just been described and named as above when 

 I received ' Hedwigia ' (xlii., Part 2) for March, 1903, in which 

 Prof. P. Hennings had described this one along with other 

 Australian Fungi. The descriptions are substantially the same, 

 only the paraphyses were overlooked by Prof. Hennings. 



