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shortly stipitate. Sporidia somewhat kidney-shaped, often binu- 
cleate, 7-9 X 4-5 jj,. 
On bark and wood. Queensland. 
|| Placoxylon. 
Stroma broadly and vaguely efiu sed 
a. Stroma coloured. 
1575 . Hypoxylon haematites. Lev. Grev.x i., 133. Sacc. 
Syll. 5984. 
Effused, crustaceous, indeterminate, rugose, bright orange red, 
at length ferruginous red, black within ; perithecia very densely 
crowded, subglobose, rather prominent, pierced ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia elliptical, attenuated at each end, dark brown, 18 x 5 g.. 
On wood. Queensland. 
1576 . Hypoxylon capnodes. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1843, 72. 
Sacc. Syll. 1113. 
Effused, greyish-black, nearly even, but punctate with the pro- 
minent ostiola. Asci cylindrical, sporidia ellipsoid, 10-12x5-6 g, 
brown, then dark sooty brown, minutely guttulate. 
On branches. Queensland. W. Australia. 
Hypoxylon fnsco-flavum. B. § Br. in Bailey's List, Queens- 
land Fungi. 
As no specimen can be found in Herb. Berk, and no diagnosis, 
it must be regarded as an empty name. 
b. Stroma black. 
1577 . Hypoxylon oodes. B. <$• Br. Ceylon Fungi 1071. 
Sacc. Syll. 1456. 
Broadly effused, coffee-coloured, becoming black, perithecia 
sparingly confluent, globose, opaque ; ostiola papillate, encircle 
by a small impressed ring. Asci linear ; sporidia shortly cymbas- 
form, binucleate, brown ; 15-17 x 7 p. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
1578 . Hypoxylon punctulatnm. B. <]• /lav. Grev. iv., 94. 
Sacc. Syll. 1534. 
Very broadly effused, black, girt by the ruptured epidermis, 
quite even, perithecia small, ovoid, crowded, ostiola punctiform, im- 
pressed. Asci subclavato, 90 X 9 /x. Sporidia ellipsoid, somewhat 
truncate at the ends, 7-8 X 4-5 g, at first hyaline, then brown. 
On rotten branches. Queensland. 
1579 . Hypoxylon serpens. Fr. Sum. Veg. Scan. 384. Sacc. 
Syll. 1448. 
Stroma on wood, rarely on bark, effused in a narrow, often 
short, thin crust, superficial, variable in form, irregular, for the 
most part longitudinally expanded, sometimes oval or elliptic, 
sometimes linear, more or less elongated, distinct, or confluent, 
dark brown or quite black, opaque ; perithecia subglobose, densely 
