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SUPERFICIA LES. 
Perithecia distinct from each other, superficial ornearly superficial. 
-—Oooke, in Handb. Austr. Fungi 304. 
CONIOCH ETA, Sace. 
Perithecia hispid, subsuperficial. Sporidia coloured.—Cooke Le. 
C. Que eenslandiz, P. Henn. Hebw. xlii. 80. Perithecis superfi- 
cial, scattered or aggregate, carbonaceous, black, ovoid, top pa apillate 
or concave, the dusky mycelium circling, the base bra nehed, densely- 
bristly, bristle black, 50-200 x 10-15 Hh et 300 p diam. ; ascl 
cylindrical, sporiferous portion about 50 x ; spores monostichous, 
oblong ellipsoi oid, both ends obtuse, Ae Meck, 6-8 x 33-4 Bp 
P. Hennings l.c. 
Hab. : Upper Barron River, on wood.—£. Pritzel. 
ROSE Ll JAINTA, Not. 
n. Hedw. xlii. 79. Perithecia superficial, mostly 
aggregate, sonia sired or subglobose, dark-carbonaceous, at first 
ferruginous, prinnose, afterwards smooth, black, and somewhat shining, 
ostiola subconical, 0°3 diam.; asci eylindrical- -clavate, apex obtuse, 8- 
spored, 80-100 p long, aap portion 70-80 x 4-43 #4 paraphyses 
filiform, hyaline, about 1-14 , spores monostichous, oblong ellipsoid, 
unequalsided, obtuse at each ans 2-guttulate, brown or black, 7- 
35 p.—P. Hennings Lc 
Hab.: Russell River, on Lawyer cane.—£. Pritzel. 
MICROTHYRIACE. 
Perithecia subsuperfici ial, membranaceous or carbonaceous, dimi- 
diate, a radiating in structure, pierced in the centre, OF without 
Mu. 0. Cooke, Handb. Aust. Fungi 312. 
MICROTHYRIUM, Not. 
Perithecia membranaceous.— Ovoke l.c. 312. 
M. Melaleuc P. Henn. Hedw. xiii. 78. Perithecia am mphi- 
genous, diet ter packeliate, black, 0°3-0° umm. diam., cellules 
radiating ; asci ovoid, ea tunicate, roundish, eee Be curv! 
at the base, 8-spo ored, 16-20 x 7-8 »; spores clavate or oblong ovoid. 
1-septate, not pierce ig pRaail a Sealine. 8.10 x 225 A 
Hennings L.c. 
Hab.: Upper Barron River, on leaves of Melaleuca leucadendron.—E- Pritzel. 
SEYNESTA, Sacc. 
fe rithecia dimidiate, the margin concrete with the matrix, aa 
ral, asci cylindrical (?), sporidia obiong, dusky, constricted, 
sopiate chiefly didymous.—From Sace. Syll. Fung. 1i. 668, 
