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sphffiroid or subsphasroid, 12-15 y ; sporidia 8, crowded, hyaline, 
lens-shaped, 8-10 y ; margin radiately striolate, 5 y diam. 
On plants in herbaria, etc. Queensland. N. Zealand. (Fig. 
240.) 
1660. Eurotium lateritium. Mont. Syll. 918. Sacc. SylL 
104. 
Perithecia membranaceous, cellulose (100-120 y), yellow, then 
ochre, immersed in dense, interwoven, woolly, orange-yellow flocci. 
Asci 8-sporcd, globose, or elliptic, 16 X 12 y, evanescent ; sporidia 
spheeroid, angular by compression, yellow, 7 x 5 y, epispore thick. 
On leaves. Mount Bartle Frere. 8.W. Australia. 
Genus 57. ASTERIMTA. Lev. 
Perithecia seated on a spot-like, radiating, black, somewhat super- 
ficial mycelium, lenticular or depressedly globose, without mouth, 
membranaceous. Asci short, for the most part 8-spored ; sporidia 
typically two-celled, brown, but sometimes continuous or multi- 
septate, and either hyaline or coloured. 
* Sporidia uniseptate, brown. 
1661. Asterina Baileyi. B. Br. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W . 
v.,89. Linn. Trans. 1883, t. 15,/. 25-28. Sacc. Syll. 6196. 
Threads of mycelium brown, nodulose, branching, forming 
reddish-brown patches on leaves ; perithecia minute, rugose, 
brown, with a few adherent fibrils. Asci clavate, octosporous ; 
sporidia brown, uniseptate, constricted. 
On IJakea. Queensland. 
1662. Asterina correicola. Cke. Sf Mass. Grev. xvi., 5. 
Forming orbicular black spots on leaves. Perithecia convex, 
flattened (60 y diam.), black, crowded on the spots, margin 
fimbriate. Asci nearly globose, 8-spored ; sporidia elliptic, 
uniseptate, scarcely constricted, rounded at the ends, brown, 25-28 
X 10-12^. 
On living leaves of Correa Laurenciana. Victoria. (Fig. 241.) 
1663. Asterina pellicnlosa. Berk. Anlarc. Crypt, p. 137. 
Sacc. Syll. 200. 
Mycelium forming a pellicle, spot-like, black. Perithecia globose, 
depressed, black. Asci ovate; sporidia oblong-ellipsoid, 16-20 y 
long, uniseptate, brown. 
On leaves. Queensland. 
1664. Asterina platystoma. Cke. Sf Mass. Grev. xxiii., 6. 
Mycelium thin, more or less orbicular, dendritic, black; peri- 
thecia convex, flattened, closely adnate, black, broadly fissured at 
the apex. Asci saccate, 8-spored. Sporidia elliptic, uniseptate, 
constricted in the middle, brown, upper cell broadest, 17-18 X 9 y. 
On living leaves of Castanospermim. Queensland. 
