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asci cylindrical, 110-120 x 12-14 p ; sporidia ovoid-oblong, 
15-16 x 9-10 p, uniseptate, slightly constricted, sooty brown. 
Spermatia ovoid, 2-3 x 1 p, hyaline. 
On bark. Queensland. W. Australia. (Fig. 212.) 
Family V. DIATRYPEiE. Fries. 
Perithecia immersed in a heterogeneous stroma. 
Gknus 26. DIATRYPE. Fries. 
Stroma heterogeneous from the substance of the matrix, erum- 
pent, almost superficial, effused, or discoid. Perithecia immersed 
in the stroma. Asci stipitate. Sporidia allantoid, minute, 
hyaline. 
1608. Diatrype glomeraria. Berk. FI. N. Zeal. 205, t. 106, 
f. 13. Sacc. Syll. 740. 
Erumpeut, angular, or confluent and elongated; stroma mode- 
rate, pallid ; perithecia ovate, with a short neck ; ostiola obscure ; 
asci clavate ; sporidia 8, curved, allantoid, 14-15 p long. 
On branches of Rhipigonum parvijlorum. Victoria. New Zea- 
land. (Fig. 213.) 
1609. Diatrype stigma. Boffin. Fr. S. V. S. 385. Sacc. 
Syll. 705. 
Stroma erumpent, casting off the epidermis, at length naked, 
long and broadly effused, flattened, at length black (1 m.m. 
thick) ; perithecia ovoid, ostiola rather immersed, rather plane, 
entire or four-lobed; asci pedicellate (30-50 X 4-6 p) ; sporidia 
allantoid, hyaline (6-12 x 1^-2 p). 
On branches. Queensland. 
1610. Diatrype chlorosarca. B. <j- Br. Ceylon Fungi No. 
1080. Sacc. Syll. 715. 
Small, pustulate, orbicular ; green within, plane above. Asci 
clavate. Sporidia allantoid, hyaline, 7-9 p long. 
On branches. Queensland. 
Family VI. VALSE-ffi. Fries. 
Composite. Stroma formed from the changed matrix. Peri- 
thecia distinct, circulating, or in a single row. 
Genus 27. VALSA. Fries. 
Perithecia carbonaceous, perfect, circinating, elongated above 
into converging necks ; ostiola erumpent, joined together or ending 
in a common disc. 
* Eutypella. Ostiola sulcate. 
1611. Valsa (Eutypella) stellulata. Fries Syst. Myc. n.> 
381. Sacc. Syll. 
Subrotund, immersed ; stroma white or dirty white, circum- 
scribed ; ostiola short, ovate-globose, radiately stellate ; asci 
elliptical ; sporidia biseriate, simple, sausage-shaped, slightly 
■curved, hyaline 8-12 x 1^-2 p. 
On branches. Victoria. 
