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* # Euvalsa. Ostiola not sulcate. 
1612. Valsa echidna. Cooke Grev. ix., 4. Sacc. Syll. 498. 
Erumpent, perithecia 10-20, nestling in a white pulverulent 
stroma; ostiola cylindrical, elongated, flexuous, thrust out; asci 
numerous, clavate, minute, 20-25 X 6 p. Sporidia thin, curved, 
hyaline, 4 p long. 
On bark. Queensland. N.S. Wales. (Fig. 214.) 
Family VII. EUTYFEJE. 
Stroma broadly and indefinitely effused, formed from the more 
or less changed matrix. Perithecia immersed in the stroma, for 
the most part densely gregarious. 
Genus 28. CRYFTOVALSA. Ces. 
Stroma effused, as in Eutypa ; asci many-spored ; sporidia 
allantoid, hyaline. 
1613. Cryptovalsa elevata. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 702,=- Dia- 
trype elevata. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1845, 298. 
Elongated, emergent, black or grey ; perithecia gregarious, 
globose, of medium size, immersed in tbe wood ; ostiola conical, 
punctiform at the vertex ; asci clavate, polysporous ; sporidia 
allantoid, pale olive, 15-17 p long. 
On dead branches. W. Australia. Tasmania. (Fig. 215.) 
Genus 29. EUTYFA. Tul. 
Stroma broadly effused, on bark or wood ; ostiola small ; asci 
eight spored ; sporidia allantoid, hyaline. 
1614. Eutypa lata. Tul. Carp. Fun. n., 86. Sacc. Syll. 
637. 
Stroma long and broadly effused, contiguous, innate in the wood 
or bark, surface unequal from the irregularly emergent perithecia, 
fuscous or cinereous, at length black ; perithecia immersed, more 
or less protuberant, spliaaroid (^ m.m. diam.), with very short 
necks, or none ; ostiola obtusely conoid, entire. Asci cylindrically 
clavate, 48 x 4-5 p. Sporidia elongated, curved or nearly 
straight, 8-12 X l|-2 p, hyaline, pale tawny. 
On wood and bark. Tasmania. (Fig. 216.) 
1615. Eutypa polyscia. B.fyBr. Sacc. Syll. 6286.=Spba3ria 
polyscia. B. Br. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. v., 91. 
Stroma quite black, punctulate ; perithecia immersed, impressed 
at the apex ; asci clavate, slightly attenuated at the base, 86 p 
long ; sporidia allantoid, guttulate, rather large, 22 p long. 
On epicarp of Cucurbita lagenaria. Queensland. 
1616. Eutypa ludibunda. Sacc. Syll. 632. 
Stroma broadly effused, formed from the unchanged or blackened 
hark or wood ; perithecia globose, black externally, at first mealy 
with white, produced into a short, conical or obtuse, 4-5, sulcate 
