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substance white. Perithecia very minute, immersed in the 
periphery. Asci cylindrical, 120 ^ long. Sporidia filiform, at 
length multiseptate (about 100 ^ long), hyaline. On grasses, 
Brisbane. Somewhat resembling H. Bamhusæ, but larger and 
less globose. Size and form not unlike H, strangulans Mont.” 
It is difficult to see any resemblance between the two species, 
except that both are black. Hypocrea Bamhusæ, as a rule, 
has a definite hemispherical stroma seated on the apex of the 
shoot. Hypocrella axillaris also grows on and involves a lateral 
shoot, but, just as in Balansia brevis, the stroma is adnate to 
the lowest leaf of the shoot over its whole length. It is not 
obturbinate or obclavate, unless one looks at it from the natural 
erect position of the grass. Viewed with the leaf to which it 
is adnate horizontal, it is pulvinate, tapering to one end. 
The stromata are pulvinate, tapering to one end, wrinkled, 
almost smooth, black, adnate to the leaf, up to 5 mm. long, 
3 mm. broad, and 2 mm. high. The internal tissue is white, 
and composed of h 5 rphæ and the tissues of the bud : the black 
outer layer is up to 0*1 mm. deep. The perithecia are 
flask -shaped, close-set, about 0*3 mm. deep (including the 
neck), and 0*15 mm. diameter ; the ostiola do not, or scarcely, 
project. The asci are about 180 x 5 and the spores filiform, 
as long as the ascus, 1-1*5 (jl diameter, septate. The Queens- 
land species differs from Balansia Bamhusæ in the smaller 
perithecia, and the smooth larger stromata of different shape 
and habit. It wUl stand as Balansia axillaris (Cooke) Fetch. 
125. — Nectria dorcas (B. & Br.) Cooke. 
Berkeley and Broome described this species as Peziza dorcas, 
Fungi of Ceylon, 944. It was transferred to Nectria by Cooke, 
Grevillea, XII., pp. 77-83, but placed in Dialonectria. An 
examination of the type specimens confirms Cooke’s diagnosis 
so far as Nectria is concerned, the ostiolum being clearly 
evident in mounted examples. 
The perithecia are yellowish-brown to fawn-coloured, 
globose, 0*3 mm. diameter, scattered or clustered. When 
dry the centre collapses. They are densely clothed with 
interwoven hyphæ, hyaline or brownish in colour, with free 
spreading ends, nodular above, up to 30 x 4 (ji. The asci are 
