AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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Section D. Xylodactyla. Ft. 
Apex of the clubs sterile, stem villous. 
1547. Xylaria hypoxylon. Grev. FI. Fdin. 355. Sacc. 
Syll. 1260. 
Stroma erect, compressed and dilated, variously parted, rarely 
simple, black, villous about the base ; perithecia ovate, a little 
prominent, densely crowded, rugose, sterile at the apex ; stem 
usually shorter than the club ; asci cylindrical, pedicellate, 80 x 
7-8 fi ; sporidia fusiform, obtuse, unequal-sided, becoming nearly 
black, continuous, 12-14 x 5-6 /a. 
On stumps. Gnndawang. Queensland. 
Genus 12. FORONIA. Willd. 
Stroma fleshy-coriaceous, at first clavate, then cup-shaped, 
stipitate or nearly sessile, whitish or blackish ; perithecia im- 
mersed in the upper discoid face of the stroma, carbonaceous, 
black; sporidia continuous, brown. 
1548. Foronia punctata. Linn. Fr. Summa. Veg. Scan. 
882. Sacc. Syll. 1321. 
Stroma erect, simple, at first clavate, soon open, cup-shaped, 
attenuated into a more or less long tomentosc stem, externally 
black, disc white, punctate with the black ostiola ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia ovate, becoming black, involved in a hyaline mucus 
18-26 X 10-14 fi. 
On dung. Victoria. W. Australia. Tasmania. 
1549. Foronia cedipus. Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1855. Sacc. 
Syll. 1322. 
Stioma erect, externally blackish, simple or branched, stem 
becoming smooth, rather long, thickened in a clavate manner at 
the base, the apex dilated into a cup, papillate with the prominent 
ostiola, at first concave, then flattened ; asci snbcylindrical, 120 X 
24 p, ; sporidia ovate, straight, becoming black, involved in a 
thick, hyaline, mucous stratum, 28-30 x 16 y.. 
On dung. Victoria. Queensland. N.8. Wales. (Fig. 198.) 
1550. Foronia pileiformis. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1842. Sacc. 
Syll. 1323. 
Stroma branched, almost even, the branches ending in pilei- 
form cups, blackish; asci cylindrical; sporidia ovoid, acute at each 
end, guttulate, sooty brown, 7-8 y long. 
Queensland. 
Genus 13. RHOPALOPSIS. Cooke. 
Very densely casspitose, clubs abbreviated, shortly stipitate or 
crowded together on an intricate stroma ; perithecia peripherical • 
sporidia continuous, brown . 
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