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papillate; asci oblong-lanceolate, 60-76x 10-12 /x. Sporidia 
fusiform, curved or straight, rather acute, 3-septate, scarcely con- 
stricted, hyaline, 18-24 x 4-5 /a. 
On herb stems. Victoria. Tasmania. 
** Lisiella. Sporidia continuous. 
1515. Gibherella (Lisiella) passiflorse. Cke. <j- Mass. Qrev. 
xvi., 5. 
Perithecia erumpent, then superficial, aggregated in small 
clusters, globose, somewhat papillate, substance bright blue, 
cellular ; asci rather fusoid, 8-spored. Sporidia elliptic, con- 
tinuous, hyaline, 12 x 5 /x. 
On stems of Passijlora. Queensland. (Pig. 194.) 
Genus 10. MELANOSFORA. Corda. 
Perithecia simple, soft, diaphanous, ostiola produced into a 
subulate beak, often penicillate at the apex. Sporidia ellipsoid, 
continuous, brown. 
1516. Melanospora caprina. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scan. 396. 
Sacc. Syll. 4599. 
Perithecia superficial, globose, villous, white; ostiolum subulate, 
turning blackish ; asci clavate. Sporidia ellipsoid, continuous, at 
length expelled in a globule from the apex of the ostiolum. 
On wood and chips. Tasmania. (Pig. 195.) 
Family II. XYLARIEJE. 
Genus 11. XY1ABXA. Bill. 
Stroma erect, clavate or subglobose, often stipitate. Perithecia 
immersed in the stroma or adnate, carbonaceous, papillate. 
Sporidia ovoid, amygdaloid, or navicular, continuous, brown. 
Section A. Xyloglossa. Fr. 
Club everywhere fertile, stem smooth. 
a. Capitulum clavate, stem thin, elongated. 
f Simple. 
1517. Xylaria australis. Cooke Grev. n., 84, t. 152,/. 2. 
Sacc. Syll. 5937. 
Stroma clavate, naked (3 in. long, ^xf in. thick), thickened 
upwards, obtuse, even, brown, punctate with the very minute 
ostiola, whitish within, then hollow ; stem elongated (1^-2 in.), 
smooth, thin (} in. thick), becoming blackish ; asci cylindrical, 
stipitate. Sporidia narrowly lanceolate, brown (15x3 /x). 
On wood. Queensland. 
1518. Xylaria involuta. Klotsch. Linncea.—X. tabacina 
Kickx. Sacc. Syll. 1228. Grev. xi., t. 162, f. 3. 
Coriaceous, clavate, ochraceous, then brownish-yellow, or fawn- 
coloured, obtuse (2-4 in. long, |-£ thick), attenuated below into ‘a 
rather long slender stem ; ostiola punctate, perithecia rather large, 
