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This family is characterised by the presence of paraphyses, 

 the ' looseness ' of the asci from one another, and the 

 freedom of the perithecium in its later stages ; the genus 

 by its yellow to dark brown four-celled spores. 



L(ptosph(£ria LeinaiiecB, as noted by Woronin, does 

 not possess paraphyses, its asci ' arise together,' and the 

 perithecium never becomes free ; whilst its spores are 

 hyaline. 



The characters cited would more correctly appear to 

 refer the fungus to the family Mycosphaerellaceae, and the 

 group of genera — Pharcidia and SpJicrrnliiKX. 



I wish to thank Professor Weiss and Professor Lang 

 for the help they have given me in this investigation. 



