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Genus 48. FLEOSFORA. Rabh. 
Perithecia scattered, erumpent. Sporidia multiseptate, muri- 
form, coloured. 
1642. Pleospora herbarum. Pers. Sacc. Syll. 3730. 
Perithecia somewhat gregarious, at first covered by epidermis, 
then nearly naked, sphieroid, depressed, collapsed when dry. 
Ostiolum papillate, or the vertex obtusely umbonate, smooth, 
sometimes fibrillose at the base, black (200-450 p broad). Asci 
clavate (100-1 60 x 20-30 p); sporidia ellipsoid or oblong, 7-septate, 
muriform, yellow or brown, 80-40 x 16-18 p. 
On herb stems. Victoria. N. Zealand. (Fig. 229.) 
1643. Fleospora aucubse. West. Sacc. Syll. 3776. 
Perithecia spherical, immersed, black, scattered upon somewhat 
circular brown spots, witli the centre paler and the circumference 
margined by a thicker line. Ostiolum papillate, perforating the 
cuticle. Asci cylindrical ; sporidia ellipsoid, muriform, sooty- 
brown. 
On leaves of Aucuba. Victoria. 
Family XV. FOI.IICOI.jE. Fries. 
Perithecia minute, membranaceous, or submembranaceous, innate, 
covered, growing for the most part on leaves. 
Genus 49. LiESTADIA. Auers. 
Sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
* Genuina. Without paraphyses. 
1644. Lsestadia destructiva. B.fyBr. Sacc. Syll. 6379.= 
Sphserella destructiva. B. $ Br. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.v., 
91. Trans. Linn. Soc. 1883, t. 15,/ 22-24. 
Perithecia minute, seated on brown spots. Asci short (75 p 
long) ; sporidia subelliptic, rather attenuated at the base, 12 p 
long, hyaline. 
On leaves. Queensland. (Fig. 233.) 
** Physalosi’oba. With paraphyses. 
1645. Laestadia (Fliysalospora) ph.yllodi.se. Cke. § Mass. 
Grev. xvi., 114.~P. microsticta. Cke. Grev. xx., 5. 
Perithecia scattered, very thin, pnnctiform, immersed, black, 
covered by the blackened cuticle. Asci clavate, stipitate ; sporidia 
elliptic, granular within, continuous, hyaline, 20 x 8 p. 
On phyllodes of Acacia suaveolens. Victoria. (Fig. 230.) 
Genus 50. SFHAIRELLA. DeNol. 
Sporidia uniseptate, hyaline. 
1646. Sphserella nubilosa. Cke. Grev. x ix., 61. 
Hypophy lions. Spots orbicular, or confluent and irregular, 
glaucous brown, soon falling away. Perithecia numerous, very 
minute (40-60 p diam.), scarcely visible to tbe naked eye, 
depressedly globose, membranaceous, brown, pierced at the apex. 
