8 
at the base as if pedicellate, blue, 200-300 x 170-200 p, papillate ; 
asci oblong-lanceolate, 60-76 x 10-12 p. Sporidia fusiform, curved 
or straight, rather acute, Sucptits. scarcely constricted, hyaline, 18-24 
-5 p.— Cooke l.c. 
rma Calami, P. Henn. Hedw. xlii. 79. Perithecia aeiamroes 
sdheouaid ota 150-180 p, atroviolaceous, hyphe ausky-byaline, sep- 
tate, about 5 p thick; asci clavate about 70 p long, 2 
portion 30-50 x 3-10 ss ; spores districhous, dusky, curved, 3-septate, 
hyaline, 20-23 x 1-43 ».—P, Hennings l.c. 
Hab.: Upper Saker vee; on leaves of a Calamus (Lawyer cane).—Z. 
Pritzel. 
MEGALONECTRIA, Speg. 
Perithecia globose, somewhat soft, pretty coloured, pillulate, asci 
8-spored, a ovate-oblong, murally- septate, hyaline. —From Sace. 
Syll. Fung. 11, 560. 
itvtriche) 
79. The asci are on tlie a pnt 12-17 p in diameter, the spores 
smaller, 14-20 x 7-10 p, 3-5-7- -septate, wall-like structures, ellipsoid 
or fusoid when in afu Generally the fungus agrees 
with the American specimens in other characteristics. —P. Henn ings }-C. 
Hab. : Cairns.—E. Pritzel. 
HYPODERMA, 
Perithecia innate, oblong or Sic. ae membranaceous, § sub- 
dimidiate, erack longitu udinally gehipe cing. ci clavate Sporidia 
iz vitgulto orum, DC. Sace. lc. Oe le pis Pers. Subin- 
nate in a longitudinal position, elongate, acute, smooth, shiny, 
black, at length gaping, grey inside; asci clavate-oblong, long stipitate, 
8-spored, filiform-paraphysate, 90 x 9; sporidia fusoid-elongate, some 
what obtuse, ie or slightly curved, eeailalar, 92-nucleate, hyaline, 
21 x 3, many s 
Hab.: mabey on an Araliaceous plant.—. Pritzel. 
DIELSEILLA, P. Henn. Hedw. xlii. 84. 
Perithecia erumpent- superficial, carbonaceous- black, convex: 
Laces righ or scntellate, depressed in the middle, papillate, crack sub- 
circular, dehiscent. Asci ovoid or clavate, 4 to 8-spored, parap che 
copious Splice ellipsoid, 1-septate; dark-brown. This new genus I§ 
allied to Lembosia.—P. Henni ngs lc. 
D. Pritzelii, P. Henn. Hedw. xli. 84. Parithecia amphigen? 
erumpent, superficial, mostly peelings, convex-depressed or scut t 
fragile, coal-black, subieu ee fibrillose, hyphe black, re abou 
43 p thick, papillate ; rack pees dehise 0°5-1 me 
diam.; asci ovoid or Sheets rounded at the oar x nicate, 
8-spored, 60-120 x 25-50 p; psi ay po obvallate, filiform, 
