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Family VIII. PHACIDIEI. Fries. 
Cups minute, innate, waxy, usually blackish, covered by the 
cuticle, which at length splits in various ways. 
Genus 40. PSEUDOPEZIZA. FcJcl. 
Cups erumpent, usually seated on spots, gregarious, minute, 
smooth, waxy or fleshy, plane or concave, with a spurious crenulate 
margin, or circumscribed by the lacerated cuticle. Sporidia con- 
tinuous, hyaline. 
1466. Pseudopeziza trifolii. Bern. Sacc. Syll. 2970.= 
Phacidium trifolii. Bond. Ann. Set. Nat. 1869. 
Sessile, epiphyllous, minute, cups plane, smooth, pale honey- 
coloured, yellow rn.rn. diam.). Asci oblong, clavate, 80 x 15 y, 
shortly stipitate ; sporidia oblong-ellipsoid, 12-14x6-7 y, bigut- 
tulate, hyaline; paraphyses filiform, rather thick, and compressed 
together. 
On languishing leaves of clover. Victoria. 
1467. Pseudopeziza medicaginis. Lib. Sacc. Syll. 2971. 
=Pliacidium medicaginis. Lib. Exs. 176. 
Scattered, minute, soon flattened, ocliraceous-brown, innate on 
yellowish suborbicular spots, then girt by the 3-4 toothed epidermis 
(|-1 m.m. broad) ; asci stipitate, sporidia ovate, hyaline (8-11 X 
4-6 //.), two-guttulate. 
On leaves of Medicago. Victoria. (Fig. 174.) 
Sub-Genus. FABRiEA. Sacc. 
Sporidia uniseptate, hyaline. 
1468. Pseudopeziza (Pabraea) rhytismoideum. C. <$• M. 
Grev. xviii., 81. 
Cups clustered together upon a kind of pseudostroma in the 
centre of the leaves, usually 6 to 8, minute, externally dark brown, 
disc pallid, cinereous, closing in drying, and wholly becoming pitch- 
brown, nearly black, and then resembling a Rhytisma ; asci 
clavate ; sporidia cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, uniseptate, 
hyaline, 16-18 X 3-4 yu,, paraphyses numerous. 
On living leaves of Gotula. Victoria. 
Genus 41. COCCOMYCES. DeNot. 
Cups fleshy or waxy, hemispherical, depressed, swollen when 
moist, brownish, orbicular or angular, epithecium concrete with the 
epidermis, divided from the centre outwards into many teeth ; 
sporidia elongated, simple or septate, hyaline. 
1469. Coccomyces delta. /fMnz«.=Phacidinm delta. Kze. 
Linn, v., 551. Coccomyces trigonus. Fr. in Sched. 
Innate, three-angled (|-1 m.m.), with three elevated joinings, 
dehiscing in three valves, disc brown ; sporidia rod-like, guttulate 
(50-70 x 2 y, paraphyses filiform. 
On Eucalyptus leaves. Victoria. (Fig. 169.) 
