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PYRENOMYCETE. 
Perithecia fleshy, coriaceous, carbonaceous, or membranaceous, 
prolly enclosing the hymenium, usually pierced at the apex. — Cooke, 
n Handb. Austr. Fungi 277. 
NECTRLZ. 
NECTRIA, Fries. 
ag epispheria, ode. Fries 8. Veg. Sc. 388. Sace. Syll. Fun 
497, Perithecia gregarious or sated “superficial, subspheroi, 
aveing, soon subeompressed, ostiola papillate, soft, smo oth, 
coloured, 180 broad; asei cylindrical, 50-60 x 5-6, ia spored ; 
spor oridia oblique monostichous, ellipsoid or ae ticen slightly 
ey vsicee. 1-septate, slightly constricted, hyaline, or stale 7 to 10 
; paraphyses tender and so omwhat branched.—Sace. 
a Upper Barron River, on Hypoxylon.—E£. Pritzel. 
HYPOMYCES, Fries. 
H. stereicola, P. Henn. Hedw. xlii, 79. Mycelium orange- 
coloured, crustaceous-effuse, hy phe yellow or subhyaline, septate, 
branching, about 3-4 p thick; conidia subglobose niet punctulate 
Within, 23-3; perithecia eae or gregarious, free, ovoid or 
subglobose, citron-coloured ; ooth, points papiliate, palish, 130- 
180 -150 pp; ascl cpiindtionl apex obtuse, 8-spore ed, 40-50 
x 2-23 «; spores monosti ichos, fusoid, acute at t both ends, at first 
continuous 7 chances: afterwards with a ‘middle septa, not constricted, 
43-53 x 13-2 p.—P. Hennings biti 
. : ues Barron River, on Stereum lobatum, Fries —E. Pritzel. 
PARANEUTRIA, Sace. 
Parithecia a yes tender-membranous, pretty-coloure red, su 
papillate. Asci 8-spored. Sporidia Lie gear setigerous 
at both ends, fcoere hyaline.—Sace. Syll. Fung. ii. 552. 
. Pritzeliana, P. Hen n. Hedw. xiii. 79. Parithecia aggregate, 
subglobose-ovoid, 5 ie ‘dense furfuraceous-squamose, yphx 
about 25-45 x 38 apex subecinerous papillate, about 200-250 p, 
context cells rotundate- polyedric, about 15-20 p diam., scarlet, asei 
fusoid, subacute at each end, 8-spored, 60-80 x ao as Ppa 
conglobate or subtristicho, Fusoid- cylindrical, 3-septa 
stricted, ae 42 x 4-5 p, hyaline, the base or each end see el alitesn, 
30-45 x 2 ».—P. Hennings ee oe 
ks Russell River.—E. Pritzel. 
GIBBERELLA, Sace. 
S. » Saubi netii, Mont. Cooke, in Handb. Austr. Fungi 282. Peri- 
ecia gregarious, *confluent in tufts and growing toge ther, somewhat 
en warted, at length flaccid, plicate, ovoid, contract ted 
