AUSTRALIAN FUNGI, 
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1555. Nummularia lutea. (A. $■ S .) Fries. Sacc. Syll. 1528. 
Stroma superficial on decorticated wood, orbicular, thick, cup- 
shaped ; margin rugose, surface brown, then blackish, yellow 
within ; perithecia in many rows, densely crowded, ovate or sub- 
globose ; asci cylindrical, subsessile ; sporidia small, ovate, straight, 
brownish, 5-6 x 3 p. 
On wood, Queensland. 
b. Disc convex. 
1556. Nummularia Bulliardi. Tul. Carp. Fun. n., 43, t. 5, 
f. 11. Sacc. Syll. 1524. 
Stroma, on destruction of the periderm, emergent, superficial 
and free, plane, for the most part determinate, orbicular, or oval, 
rarely irregular, broadly effused, quite black without and within, 
punctate with the prominent minute ostiola, at first forming a 
dirty white fleshy stratum, covered by the epidermis ; perithecia 
rather large, ovate, black, crowded in the stroma ; asci cylindrical ; 
100-120 x 10 p ; sporidia oval, approaching globose, blackish, 
12-14 x 9-10 p. 
On branches. Tasmania. 
1557. Nummularia exutans. Che. Texas Fungi 143.= 
Anthostoma exutans. Sacc. Syll. 1105. 
Broadly effused, marginate, black, at first developed beneath the 
cuticle, then erumpent, throwing off the epidermis, ostiola puncti- 
form, depressed ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic, attenuated at 
the ends, brown, continuous, uniguttulate, 15 X 8 p. 
On branches. Victoria. (Fig. 201.) 
1558. Nummularia australis. Cooke Grev. xn., 6. Sacc. 
Syll. 6360. 
Stroma developed within the bark, then erumpent, effused, 
determinate, often discoid, convex, unpolished, black ; perithecia 
subglobose, small, 1-2 seriate, ostiola scarcely visible ; asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia very variable in form, some fusiform, 21 X 9 p, 
others ovate, 12 x 8 p, others intermediate, brown. 
On branches. N.8. Wales. 
1559. Nummularia microplaca. B. # G. Cooke Pyr. No. 
827 .=Anthostoma. Sacc. Syll. 1112. 
Thin, orbicular, sparingly dotted with the minute papillate 
ostiola, black ; asci tapering, stipitate (37-50 x 4-5 p) ; sporidia 
ellipsoid, unequal-sided, dingy olive, 5-6 x 3^-4 p. 
On bark. Queensland. 
1560. Nummularia pusilla. Sacc. Hedw. 1889. 
Stroma small for the genus, flattened, becoming black, elliptic 
or oblong, or sinuous (2 m.m. diam., or 4-5 m.m. long, 2 m.m. 
wide, scarcely ^ m.m. thick), by the falling away of the cuticle 
Soon superficial, everywhere fertile, blackish, rather shining, disc 
