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TYPE SPECIMENS IN KEW HERBARIUM 
Gloniopsis sinuosa (Cke.), Sacc. 
Perithecia gregarious, mostly parallel and lying between the 
fibres of decaying wood, black, opaque, linear-oblong, ends obtuse, 
lips rather prominent, close together, longitudinally striate, §-l^ 
mm. long ; asci clavate, stipitate, wall much thickened at the 
apex, 8-spored, spores irregularly biseriate upwards, uniseriate 
below, elliptical, slightly constricted at the middle, 5-7 septate, 
muriform, hyaline, 25-30 x 12-14 /z, very refractive ; paraphyses 
cylindrical, colourless, very numerous, agglutinated together and 
becoming indistinct at the tips. 
Hysterium sinuosum , Cooke, Grev. ix., p. 15. 
Gloniopsis sinuosa, Sacc. Syll., Yol. ii., No. 5755. 
On dry bleached wood. New Zealand. 
Gloniella atramentaria (B. Sf Br.), Sacc. 
Perithecia gregarious, mostly lying parallel, on an effused black 
stain, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, lips rather compressed, smooth, 
slit very narrow, up to *5 mm. long, black ; asci cylindrical, shortly 
stipitate, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, slightly 
clavate, 3-septate at maturity, 7-8 X 4 /z; paraphyses colourless, 
filiform, numerous. 
Gloniella atramentaria (B. & Br.), Sacc. Syll. n., No. 5723. 
Hysterium atramentarium , B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. 
xiv., p. 133. 
On dry wood. Ceylon. (Thwaites.) 
Glonium fibritectum (Scfrw.). 
Perithecia gregarious, mostly lying parallel, half buried in the 
loose fibres of the decaying wood, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse or 
abruptly acute, lips convex but flattened above, even, slit narrow at 
first, becoming more or less gaping with age, black, mm. 
long; asci cylindrical, somewhat stipitate, 8-spored; spores 
obliquely uniseriate, elliptic-fusiform, 1 -septate, very slightly con- 
stricted at the septum, colourless, 12-14 x 4-5 p; paraphyses 
numerous, filiform, distinct, colourless, not longer than the asci. 
Hysterium fibritectum , Schwein., Syn. N. Amer. Fung., No. 2095 ; 
Sacc. Syll., Yol. n., No. 5679. 
On old willow wood. Bethlehem, Pa. (Schweinitz.) 
Described from a specimen from Schweinitz in Herb. Berk., Kew. 
Lophodermium Fourcroyae (_B. Sf Br.). 
Perithecia straight or curved, flattened, lips smooth, slit very 
narrow, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, very narrow, up to 1 mm. 
long, gregarious and blackening the leaf ; asci narrowly cylindrical, 
narrowed at the extreme base into an oblique pedicel, spores 8, 
almost as long as the ascus, filiform, the ends acute, multigut- 
tulate, colourless, 60-65 x P5 p\ paraphyses numerous, exceed- 
ingly slender. 
Hysterium Four croyce, B. and Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., xiv., p. 133. 
Gloniella Four croyce (B. & Br.), Sacc. Syll., Yol. n., No. 5730. 
On leaves of Fourcroya, also on palm leaves. Ceylon. 
(Thwaites.) 
