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septate, guttulate, dusky hyaline, apex clavate, 3-4 p» thick; spores 
subdistichous or subtristichous, oblong ellipsoid, subfusoid or ovoid, 
with a central septa, constricted, dark-brown, 36-46 x 15 p 
P. Hennings 1.c, 
Hab. : Upper Barron River, on leaves of Agathis Palmerstoni.—L. Diels and 
E. Pritzei, 
Trine XYLARIEA. 
XYLARTA, Schr. 
X. obtusissima, Berk. Sace. Syll. i. 318. form. Capitulum 
short, broadly elliptic-clavate, very obtuse, stipes very short, outer 
part thin, fragile, ostiola very minute.— Nace. l.e. (the normal form). 
Hab.: Upper Barron River, on dead wood.—E. Pritzel. 
X. polymorpha, var. hypoxylea, Wits. Sacc. Syll. i. 310. 
Stroma sub-globose, at length. tumulose-rimose, deformed, on very 
short stalks, suddenly attenuated; solitary ; sporidia 24-30 x 7-9 p. 
—Sace l.c. 
Hab.: Barron River —E. Pritzel. 
apex sterile; perithecia subglobose; asci cylindrical, pedicellate, 
8-spored, sporiferous portion 80 x 6; sporidia oblique monostichous, 
ark-brown, unequalsided, 12-16 x 4-5.—Szee. le. 
“ oo: Upper Barron River, on the pods of Custanospermum australe —-E. 
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RHOPALOPSIS, Cooke. 
R. (Kretschmaria) australiensis, P. Henn. Hedw. xiii. 
88. Stroma placentiform, confluent, depressed, globose, or ovoid, more 
or less stipitate, rusty or black, about 1 line diameter, ostiola sub- 
conoid, perithecia subglobose or ovoid ; acis clavate, obtuse, sporiferous, 
-300 x 8-10 1; spores oblong, navicular, both ends obtuse, black, 
25-35 x 7-10 p.—P. Hennings l.c. 
Hab.: Kuranda.—£. Pritzel. 
NUMMULARTIA, Tul. 
N. Bulliardi, Zul. M. C. Cooke’s Handb. Austr. Fungi 291. 
Stroma on the destruction of the periderm, emergent, superficial and 
free, plane, for the most t determinate, orbicular, or oval,. rarely 
"regular, broadly effused, quite black without and within, punctate 
With the prominent minute ostiola, at first forming a dirty white fleshy 
 Hab.: Russell River.—E. Pritzel. 
