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Family XII. CERATOSTOMEiE. 
Perithecia for the most part immersed, or sometimes subsuper- 
ficial, rostrate. 
Genus 41. CERATOSTOMELLA. Sacc. 
Peritliecia rather carbonaceous. Sporidia hyaline. 
* Rhamphoria. Sporidia muriform. 
1634. Ceratostomella (Rhamphoria) tenella. Sacc. 
Hedwigia 1890, 155. 
Perithecia subsuperficial, or with the base buried in the wood, 
small, globose (|-£ m.m. diam.), black, thinly carbonaceous, pro- 
duced into a rather obtuse cylindrical beak (-(■ m.m. long). Asci 
tapering, clavate, shortly stipitate, truncate at the apex (100-120 X 
9-12 p) ; sporidia oblong-fusoid, rather acute at each end, often 
unequal-sided, 9-11 septate and muriform (24-26x6^-7^- p), 
scarcely constricted at the septa, hyaline ; paraphyses filiform. 
On rotten wood of Eucalyptus. Marietta. 
Family XIII. OBTECTiE. Fries. 
Perithecia innate in the bark, and covered by the cuticle. 
Genus 42. MASSARIA. Fries. 
Corticolous. Perithecia innate ; sporidia usually oozing out 
at the ostiolum, and blackening the matrix, involved in a hyaline 
mucus. 
* Massariella. Sporidia uniseptate, brown. 
1635. Massaria australis. Cooke Grev. xm., 65. Sacc. 
Syll. 2707. 
Scattered, covered, inconspicuous, perithecia depressed ; asci 
clavate ; sporidia lanceolate, uniseptate, constricted at the septum, 
brown, 45-50 x 12-14 p. Stylospores clavate, 3-5 septate, brown, 
50 x 14 p. 
On bark. Victoria. (Fig. 228.) 
Genus 43. ENDOPHL-ffiA. Fries. 
Corticolous, scattered, covered. Sporidia one or many septate, 
hyaline. 
* DidymelIjA. Sporidia uniseptate. 
1636. Endophlma (Didymella) cladophila. Niessl. Sacc. 
Syll. 2126. 
Perithecia loosely gregarious, covered with the bleached cuticle, 
of medium size, hemispherical, at length depressed above, papillate, 
black, coriaceous ; asci clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia uuiseriate, or 
nearly so, ovoid-lanceolate, usually straight, uniseptate, constricted, 
hyaline (10-13x4-5 p). 
On branches. 
