152 NEW OR CRITICAL FUNGI. 



present species, and in many other instances, do not agree with 

 those given by Berkeley for the same species. These discrepancies 

 may be reconciled when we remember that the methods employed 

 in making microscopic measurements were not so accurate thirty or 

 forty years ago as at the present day. 



Hypocrea (Hypocrella) axillaris Cooke, Grev. xx. 4; Australian 

 Fungi, 279. 



On grasses. Queensland. 



This species is identical with Hi/pocrdla BanibHS(E (B. & Br.) 

 Sacc. Michel, i. 323 ; Syll. Fung. x'i. no. 506-1 ; hence the first- 

 mentioned name should be given as a synonym of the second. 

 H. B(imbiis(B was previously recorded only from Ceylon. 



Dothidea Alyxise Mass. Perithecia (8-12) caespitose and con- 

 fluent, forming a black, convex pustule which originates beneath 

 the epidermis, black, shining, glabrous, 2-3 mm. across, moutlis of 

 the perithecia rather large and partly open ; asci subcylindrical, 

 apex rounded, base narrowed into a short stout pedicel, 8 spored, 

 100 X 11-12 fx; spores obliquely 1-seriate, elliptical ends very 

 obtuse, 1-septate, cells equal in size, brown, translucent, 18 X 10/^.; 

 paraphyses absent. 



On living leaves of Ahjxia huxi/olia K. Brown. Tasmania. 



Keadily distinguished by the narrowly cylindrical asci, the 

 spores being 1-seriate in the ascus, and in having the two cells 

 of equal size. 



Microthyrium Psychotriae Mass. Perithecia scattered, hypo- 

 phyllous, orbicular, discoid, almost plane, smooth, blackish brown, 

 opaque, 100-125 /x diameter, mouth distinct and slightly prominent; 

 asci clavate, shortly stipitate, 45-50 x 6-7 //, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, narrowly clavate, 1-septate 

 below the middle, 7-8 x 2-5 x 3 /x. 



On the under surface of living leaves of Psychotria subpunctata 

 Hieru. West Tropical Africa, lat. 1° N. (Coll. G. Mann, no. 

 1814). 



The minute perithecia are uniformly scattered over the under 

 surface of the leaf, and were supposed by Hiern to be black points 

 in the tissue peculiar to the species, hence his specific name. 



Sterigmatocystis vitellina Ridley (PI. 357, figs. 14-lG). 

 Entire fungus 2-3 cm. high, composed of numerous erect, aseptate 

 hyphse 10-12 /* thick, which are arranged in a compact, parallel 

 fascicle for some distance upwards from the base, becoming free 

 from each other and spreading to form a lax tassel at the apex, 

 each hypha being terminated by a globose or broadly pyriform head 

 80-100 fji diameter; apical swelling of the hypha 18-22 /x diameter, 

 giving origin to deusely packed, radiating, narrowly clavate basidia 

 15-18 ft long, and about 4 fx thick at the apex, which bears 3-5 

 conical sterigmata 6-8 fi long ; each sterigma in turn bears a single 

 subglobose conidium at its apex about 4 /x diameter. Colour of 

 every part of the fungus bright egg-yellow. 



Gregarious on the fallen pericarps of some undetermined fruit. 

 Singa]iore, H. N. Fudletj, 



