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Family IX. PATEIiIiARIEAI. Fries. 
Superficial, cups minute, between leathery and liorny, often 
becoming black, not mealy externally. 
Genus 42. FATINEIiLA. Sacc. 
Cups scutellate or flattened, sessile, rather coriaceous, blackish 
or dark coloured ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1470. Patinella tasmanica. B. Sacc. Syll. 3162. 
=Patellaria tasmanica. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 276. 
Small, sessile ; cups concave, then plane ; hymenium rufous, 
then black ; sporidia oblong, curved, continuous, 10-12 p long. 
On dead wood. Tasmania. 
1471. Patinella Adamsoni. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 3178. 
=Patellea Adamsoni. Berk. Linn. Journ. xm., 176. 
Orbicular, plane ; cups marginate, quite black (1. m.m. diam.) ; 
sporidia shortly and narrowly fusiform, continuous, hyaline. 
On branches of Eucalyptus. Victoria. (Fig. 17 0.) 
Genus 43. XARSCHIA. Kerb. 
Cups superficial, sessile, plane or patellate, between coriaceous 
and carbonaceous, black, marginate ; sporidia uniseptate, brown. 
1472. Karschia lignyota. Fr. S. M. n., 150.=Patellaria 
lignyota. Fr. Sacc. Syll. 3200. 
Cups superficial, saucer-shaped, externally dark rufous, margin 
thin, soonflexuous (1. m.m.), disc rather concave, quite black; 
asci clavate, 40-55 x 12 p, paraphyses copious, crowded together; 
sporidia oblong, constricted, uniseptate, 10-16 x 3-4 p, 2-4 guttu- 
late, pale sooty brown. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. (Fig. 171.) 
Family X. GYMNOASC ACE7E. Bar. 
Effused, byssoid, superficial, formed by naked asci crowded 
together side by side. 
Genus 44. EXOASCUS. Fckl. 
Excipulum wanting ; spurious hymenium effused, spot-like, 
byssoid- velvety, parasitic on living plants which are deformed 
thereby ; asci clavate, octosporous ; sporidia continuous, hyaline, 
often globose. 
1473. Exoascus deformans. B. Sacc. Syll. 3341.= 
Ascomyces deformans. Berk. Intr. 284. 
On the under surface of leaves, which are here and there 
bullose and pruinose with white ; asci narrowly cylindrical, 
rounded, 35-50 x 5-7 p, basal cells 10-16 x 2-5 p\ sporidia sub- 
globose, 3-5 p diam. 
On leaves of Amygdalus, etc. Victoria. Queensland. (Fig. 172.) 
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