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1495. Hypocrea (Hypocrella) axillaris. Cooke. Grev. xx., 4. 
Stroma obturbinate or obclavate, seated in the upper axils (5 
m.m. long, 2-8 broad), black, opaque, minutely granular with the 
ostiola, substance white ; perithecia very minute, immersed in the 
periphery ; asci cylindrical, 120 p. long ; sporidia filiform, at length 
multiseptate (about 100 /r long), hyaline. 
On grasses. Queensland. 
Genus 4. POLYSTIGMA. Pers. 
Stroma effused, rather fleshy, innate, ochraceous, tawny, or red ; 
perithecia immersed; asci octosporous ; sporidia ovoid, continuous, 
hyaline. 
1496. Polystigma australien.se. Sacc. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 
1889, 116, f. 14, /. 2. 
Stroma epiphyllous, or rarely on the branches, immersed, rather 
swollen, unequal, occupying half or whole of the leaf, dull rosy, 
rather fleshy ; perithecia close, immersed in the stroma, then pro- 
tuberant, scarcely papillate, at first ochraceous red, then turning 
blackish m.m.) ; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong-ellipsoid, 15- 
18 x 5- 6 fjj, hyaline. 
On leaves of Leguminosce. Victoria. (Fig. 190.) 
Sub-Family 2. Nectrise. 
Genus 5. SPH2EROSTILBE. Tul. 
Perithecia globose, soft, bright-coloured, in company or at the 
base of conidia-bearing stroma ( Stilbum , etc.) ; asci 8-spored ; 
sporidia oblong or ovoid, uniseptate, hyaline. 
1497. Sphserostilbe cinnabarina. Tul. Sel. Carp, hi., 103. 
Sacc. Syll. 4817. 
Perithecia produced at the base of conidia-bearing stroma, small, 
sessile, globose, scarcely papillate, quite smooth, orange-red, a little 
collapsing when old ; asci clavate-oblong, 18 x 13-16 /a; sporidia 
ovate-oblong, 22-26 x 7 /x, multi-nucleate, hyaline. 
On bark. N. 8. Wales. 
1498. Sphserostilbe hypocreoides. K. 4' C. Grev. ix., p. 26, 
t. 36, f. 25. Sacc. Syll. 4820. 
Pallid rose, convex ; perithecia connate in a liypocreoid stroma, 
associated with clavate conidiophores, ostiola papillate ; asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia elliptic, uniseptate, hyaline, 10-12 X 7 p, epispore 
slightly granulate. 
On bark. Queensland. 
1499. Sphserostilbe microspora. Cke. <jr Mass. Grev. xvi., 4. 
Ascigerous perithecia, in company with, or at the base of the 
conidiophorous hyphse, minute, scattered, ovate, even, orange ; 
asci clavate, stipitate ; sporidia elliptic, uniseptate, not constricted, 
hyaline, 6 X 2-3 p, conidia bearers stilbum-shaped, erect, pallid; 
stem even, attenuated upwards, rather thick, capitulum globose, of 
