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Genus 38. MELA1TOMMA. 
Perithecia subsuperficial, smooth. Sporidia septate, brown. 
1629. Melanomma congesta. Cooke Grev. Austr. Fungi 
No. 57.=Trematosph»ria congesta. Sacc. Syll. 7010. 
Gregarious, crowded, black ; perithecia subcylindrical, convex, 
smooth, pierced with a pore. Asci subclavate; sporidia fusiform, 
triseptate, slightly constricted, sooty brown, 40 X 10 p. 
On bark. Twofold Bay. 
Family X. PERTUS7E. 
Perithecia emergent, smooth, flattened at the base, adnate or 
somewhat immersed, ostiola papillate or pierced. 
Genus 39. CONISPH-ffiltlA. Cooke. 
Perithecia carbonaceous, rather conical, flattened at the base ; 
sporidia hyaline, continuous, or septate. 
* Zignoina. Sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1630. Conisphseria subcorticalis. Cke. Grev. xiv., 12. 
Sacc. Syll. 7063. 
Scattered. Perithecia semi-immersed, pierced, black, opaque. 
Asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic, hyaline, continuous, 12x4 p. 
Inside dead bark of trees. (Fig. 227.) 
** Zignaria. Sporidia uniseptate, hyaline. 
1631. Conisphseria erumpens. Cke. Grev. xx., 36. 
Scattered or aggregate, erumpent, and then nearly superficial, or 
semi-immersed. Perithecia globose, smooth, black (| m.m. diam.), 
slightly papillate. Asci cylindrically clavate, octosporous ; sporidia 
fusoid-elliptic, uniseptate, slightly constricted, binucleate, hyaline 
(15-16x4-5/*). 
On twigs. Victoria. 
*** Zignoella. Sporidia multiseptate, hyaline. 
1632. Conisphseria anstralica. Cke. <j‘ Mass. Grev. xvm. 
Perithecia scattered, semi-immersed, rather conical, with the 
base buried in the wood, pierced at the apex, black (-J- m.m. diam.). 
Asci cylindrical, substipitate ; sporidia narrowly fusiform, 5-7 
septate, not constricted at the septa (40 x 4 p.'). 
On decorticated branches. Victoria. 
Family XI. LOPHIOSTOMACEJE. 
Perithecia subsuperficial, ostiolum compressed, opening with a 
Wore or less broad crack. 
Genus 40. LOPHIOSTOMA. 
Perithecia carbonaceous. Sporidia simple or septate, coloured. 
* ScmzosTOMA. Sporidia bilocular, typically coloured. 
1633. Iiophiostoma Schomburgkii. Berk. Linn. Journ. 
xvm., 389. (Schizostouia) Sacc. Syll. 5405. 
Perithecia large, free, black, ostiolum linear ; sporidia elongated, 
fusoid biconical, 30-34 /xlong, uniseptate, hyaline. 
On wood. Queensland. 
