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XYLARIA, Fries. 
X. castorea, Berk., N. Z. Fl. ii. 204, t. £10. Stem z-in. high, 
longitudinally wrinkled, downy, then glabrous. Receptacle ovate, 
compressed, obtuse, 1 in. long, 6 to 8 lines broad, dotted with the 
mouths of the perithecia. Asci slender, i gtk subelliptic.— Berk. I.c. 
Hab.: Northern Island, New Zealand, dead wood. Specimens of ae 
fungus were also forwarded wt Miss Berea mire pete woe t= to Mrs, 
Martin, of ane, by whom they were sen . C, Cooke hon 
determination 
USTILAGO, Lamk. 
U. bursa, Berk. in atOok, Journ. Sace. Syll. Fung. vii. 473. Sorus 
greenish, 5 mm. long; spores a Va saris dense, 10 to 11 p 
long, sooty- black, verrucose-echina 
Hab.: Infesting the grain in the i ae rescence of Anthistiria Apacs Walsh 
a T. Barclay- in llar. This is dis ‘firet Mes it has been met with in Agios 
ndia » however, we learn from Dr. Hooker in song cc. Syll. Fung. Le. that 
found infesting the oii of Anthistiria nreilabs 
HYPOCRELLA, Sace. * 
(The diminutive of Hypocrea.) 
Stroma somewhat fleshy, pulvinate or- rs or subeffuse 
darkly coloured or brownish. Perithecia immersed or s misimmersed 
inthe stroma. Asci ¢ ylindric, 8-spored. Sporidia flifotth, nearly as 
long as the ascus, at bers disarticulating. —Sace. Syll. ii 579. 
EH. axillaris, Cooke, Grev. xx. 4. Stroma obturbinate or obclavate, 
ted in the upper axils (5 mm. long, 2-3 broad), black, opaque, 
minutely ahs with the ostiola ; Gee white. Perithecia ahd 
nute, immersed in the periphery. Asci cyclindrical, 120 p lon 
Si Sliform, at length multiseptate (about 100 » long), hyaline.— 
he Hab On rass (Hragrostis stricta), Walsh So T. Barclay-Millar. 
Couke notes ‘ec this new ian es somewhat resembles ambuse, but ee 
and less globose. Siz e and for unlike H. stran Boas Mont. Upon 
Thature consideration both the 
Q tionship with Hy, ty 
erella than wit] tReichlog se Zarb to have greater relationship wi YP 
DIMEROSPORIUM, Fuckel. 
boenithectum superficial, globulose, without stroma, matgeere gant 
conidioee = Mycelium black, copiously suberustaceous, seated u 
Asci here 8-spored. Sporidia didymous, hyaline ad 
—Sace. Syl. Fun Se : 
neg ar valu, Choke: Grev. xx. 5. Perithecia minute, —— 
irr eeous » with a brown sparse radiating mycelium, seated o 
Sona t black spots. Asci globose, with a small basal spice 
i 1a elliptical, uniseptate, contracted at the septum, hyaline, 
H <8 p (poss ssibly acquiring colour when mature).— €, Le 
ab.: On leaves of Trema aspera, Yandina, Field Naturalists. 
P ASTEROMELLA, Pass. and Thiim. 
erithecia globose, nye often phytlogenons, arranged in black, 
— 8 ar-shaped d spots orules ovoid or subeylindrie, hyaline, 
7 lous Hes esembling pb ihe in habit, bat: has no genuine 
Syll. Fung. ii 1. 182. 
