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CALONECTRIA. 
Calonectria coccidophaga Petch n.sp. 
Conidial stage—-Discofusarium tasmaniense (McAlp.) Petch; 
Microcera tasmamensis McAlp., Agric. Jour. Victoria, I1 (1904), 
pp. 646-648; Microcera Mytilaspis McAlp., loc. cit. 
Perithecia clustered, on a parenchymatous, yellowish stroma, 
globose, 0-4 mm. diameter, horny-looking, black above, pinkish- 
yellow below, pruinose except at the apex; apex papillate or 
flat and discoid with a punctiform ostiolum; wall thick, rose 
red in section; asci clavate, eight-spored, spores biseriate 
above, uniseriate below, 120-140 x 14-16; paraphyses stout, 
branched; ascospores oblong-oval or subcymbiform, straight or 
curved, obtuse, three-septate, constricted at the septa, 22- 
34 x 8-9 p. 
Sporodochia clustered, sessile, pulvinate or subglobose, up to 
0-3mm. diameter, or discoid, up to 0-8 mm. long, 0-6 mm. 
broad, sessile or shortly stalked, salmon pink when fresh, be- 
coming yellow with a white margin in herbarium specimens; 
conidiophores short, repeatedly branched, with short, slightly 
inflated segments; conidia fusiform, slightly falcate or almost 
straight, obtuse, up to five-septate, hyaline, 30-58 = 4-6 p. 
Distribution. Victoria; Tasmania. 
PODONECTRIA GEN. NOv. 
Perithecia on a byssoid stroma, nectriaceous; asci thick- 
walled, spores biseriate; ascospores elongated fusiform, multi- 
septate, hyaline; conidial stage, Tetracriwm. 
Podonectria coccicola (E. and E.) Petch; Nectria (Ophionectria) 
coccicola E. and E., Jour. of Myc. 1, p. 39 (1886); Dialonectria 
coccicola E. and E., Jour. of Myc., 0, p. 137 (1886) ; Ophionectria 
coccicola (E. and E.) Berl. and Vogl., Saccardo, Syll., Add. rv, 
p. 218 (1886) ; Scoleconectria coccicola (E. and E.) Seaver, Myco- 
logia, I, p. 198 (1909); Puttemansia coccicola (E. and E.) v. 
Hohnel, Fragm. zur Myk., x1, p. 30 (1911); Scleroderris giga- 
spora Massee, Kew Bulletin (1910), p. 3. 
Conidial stage—Tetracrium coccicolum v. Héhnel, loc. cit. 
Perithecia on a byssoid stroma, ovoid or subglobose, some- 
times turbinate, up to 0:5 mm. high, 0-4 mm. diameter, brown 
or blackish brown, minutely rugose, glabrous, ostiolum obscure ; 
wall parenchymatous very thick; asci clavate, shortly pedi- 
cellate, pedate, thick walled, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 
200-290 x 20-28 uw; paraphyses numerous, filiform, branched; 
ascospores fusoid or clavate, obtuse, hyaline, multiseptate, 
80-176 x 7-8 p. 
Sporodochia consisting of a brown, cylindric or ovoid, paren- 
chymatous base, up to 0-6 mm. high, 0-4 mm. diameter, sur- 
