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the same colour (perhaps at first flesh-colour), conidia elliptic, con- 
tinuous, hyaline, 10 x 6 /t. 
On bark. Victoria. (Fig. 189.) 
Species incomplete. 
1500. Sphaarostilbe dubia. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvtii., 389 • 
Only the Stilbum form seems to be known, and even that is un- 
described. 
On bark of sEgiccras. Rockhampton. 
Gencs 6. NECTRIA. Fries. 
Perithecia free, caaspitose, seated on a definite, at first conidia- 
bearing, rather fleshy stroma, ostiola mostly papillate, fleshy or 
rather membranaceous, smooth, villose or squamose, bright 
coloured ; sporidia ellipsoid or elongated, typically uniseptate, but 
sometimes continuous, hyaline. 
* Neotriella. Sporidia continuous. 
1501. Nectria fusarioides. Berk. FL Tasm. n., 279. Sacc. 
Syll. 4561. 
Pale crimson; perithecia ovate-papillate, pruinose, semi-im- 
mersed in an umber-coloured stroma ; sporidia fusoid-oblong, 
curved, 8-9 x 2-3 p, continuous, hyaline. 
On dead bark. Tasmania. 
** Gendina. Sporidia uniseptate. 
1502. Nectria coccinea. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scan. 388. Sacc. 
Syll. 4670. 
Perithecia crespitose, on an erumpent, convex, somewhat yellowish 
stroma, ovoid, or subsphseroid, papillate, even, bright red, some- 
times ochraceous-red, rarely collapsing ; asci cylindrical, 90-100 
X 6-8 p ; sporidia ellipsoid, uniseptate, hyaline, not constricted, 
12-16 x 5-7 p. 
On bark. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. Tasmania. 
(Fig. 191.) 
1503. Nectria tasmanica. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 279. Sacc. 
Syll. 4705. 
Csespitose, red, seated on a pallid stroma ; perithecia ovate, with 
a papillate ostiolum, often springing from an orbicular disc ; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia elliptical, curved, uniseptate, not constricted, 
2-4 guttulate, hyaline, 18-19 x 8-9 p. 
On dead bark. Tasmania. (Fig. 192.) 
1504. Nectria aealandica. Cooke Grev. vm., 65. Syn. Pyr. 
229. Sacc. Syll. 4678. 
Casspitose, brick-red, erumpent, pustules convex ; perithecia 
subglobose, even, papillate, soon depressed or concave ; asci clavate ; 
sporidia biseriate, elliptical, uniseptate, constricted at the middle, 
hyaline, 20-25 X 8-10 p. 
On bark. Victoria. N. Zealand. 
