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FAMILY III. CONIOMYCETES.* 
Spores, either solitary or concatenate, produced on the tips of 
generally short threads, which are either naked or contained in a 
perithecium, rarely compacted into a gelatinous mass. 
ORDER 12. SPHG:RONEMEI.t 
Perithecium more or less distinct. 
GENUS 97. CONIOTHYRIUM Corda. 
Perithecium membranaceous, bursting irregularly or trans- 
versely. Spores simple, at length free. 
1.—Coniothyrium glomeratum Corda. Corda Icones Fasc 4, figure 
108. 
GENUS 98. LEPTOSTROMA. Frs 
Perithecium membranaceous, flat, breaking off at the base. 
Spores simple, minute. 
1.—Leptostroma caricinum Fr. Spye Park, Wilts., on carices. 
2.—Leptostroma filicinum. 7. Sow. t 394, figure 10. Near 
Chippenham. . 
3.—Leptostroma spire /’r. St. Catherine’s, on spircea ulmaria. 
GENUS 99. PHOMA. f’.|| 
Perithecium punctiform or subglobose, often spurious, or 
incorporated with the matrix, discharging the minute, simple 
spores by a small orifice at the apex. Spores mostly hyaline. 
1.—Phoma nothum Band Br. On plane, Batheaston, A. N. H., 
No. 395. 
2.—Phoma radula B and Br. On plane, Batheaston, A. N. H., 
No. 396. 
* Coniomycetes, from the Greek konis dust and muke a fungus. . 
+ Spheronemei, from spheronema the typical genus. 
J Coniothyrium, from konis dust and thura a door. 
§ Leptostroma, from leptos thin and stroma a bed. 
|| Phoma, from phos a pustule. 
