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Genus 8. DXALOITECTKJA. Sacc. 
Perithecia free, distinct from each other, scattered or gregarious 
(but not caaspitose on a definite stroma), fleshy or soft, bright 
coloured ; sporidia oblong, elliptic, or elongated, typically unisep- 
tate, sometimes continuous. 
a. Sporidia uniseptate. 
1510. Dialonectria sanguinea. Sibth. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scan. 
388. Sacc. Syll. 4721. 
Perithecia scattered, adnate, ovoid, rarely subsphaeroid, ostiola 
papillate, even, blood-red (rarely flesh-colour), soft (180 p diam.) ; 
sporidia ellipsoid, rather unequally uniseptate, slightly constricted, 
hyaline, 7-10 x 4-5 p. 
On wood and bark. W. Australia. 
1511. Dialonectria quisquilaris. Cooke Grev. vm., 65. 
Sacc. Syll. 4733. 
Scattered, amber coloured, or a little orange ; perithecia even, 
here and there crowded, but not caaspitose ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia uniseptate, scarcely constricted, 16-20 x 8 p. 
On bark, chips, etc. Victoria. (Fig. 193.) 
1512. Dialonectria tephrothele. Berk. FI. Tam. n., 278. 
Sacc. Syll. 4742. 
Perithecia scattered, crimson, ovate, with a darker papillate 
ostiolum ; asci somewhat fusoid, 85-90 x 12-13 p. Sporidia rather 
fusiform, obtuse at each end, 4-guttulate, 18-20 X 6-7 p, uni- 
septate, hyaline. 
On Hypoxylon. Tasmania. 
b. Ophionectria. Sporidia filiform. 
1513. Ophionectria agaricicola. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 278, 
t. 183, 14. Sacc. Syll. 5001. 
Vermilion. Perithecia ovate, even, with a fibrous vesiculose 
texture ; asci narrowly cylindrical, very long, 300-320 x4-5 p, the 
membrane thickened at the apex. Sporidia filiform, scarcely £ p 
thick, nearly equal in length to the asci, continuous, hyaline. 
On putrid Agarics. Victoria. Tasmania. 
Genus 9. GIBBEE.EX.LA. Sacc. 
Perithecia caespitose on a stroma, or dispersed, between waxy and 
membranaceous, often blue or violet. Sporidia ovoid, then fusoid, 
3-septate, or more, hyaline. 
* Sporidia triseptate. 
1514. Gibberella saubinetii. Mont. FI. Alg. 479. Sacc . 
Syll. 4977. 
Perithecia gregarious, confluent in tufts and growing together, 
somewhat membranaceous, warted, at length flaccid, plicate, ovoid, 
contracted at the base as if pedicellate, blue, 200-300 x 170-200 p. 
