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1665. Asterina microthyrioides. Winter Hedw. 1885. 
Sacc. Syll. 6193. 
Subiculum absent. Penthecia scattered, or loosely oTegarious 
rarely a few aggregated or confluent, depressedly orbicular, very 
minute, black, rugulose, opaque, rather papillate in the centre, 
membranaceous, margin radiately fimbriate, brown, 300 p broad’. 
Asci ovate or elliptical, clavate, 40-50 x 18-21 p. Sporidia lanceo- 
late, narrowly rounded at the ends, uniseptate, hyaline, then 
brownish, 19x5 p. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus pilularis. Victoria. 
** Astbrella. Sporidia uniseptate , hyaline. 
1666. Asterina (Asterella) alsophilte. Che. 4' Mass. Grev. 
xviii., 81. 
Perithecia membranaceous, discoid, suborbicular, mostly con- 
fluent in oblong or irregular patches, pitchy black, cellules radia- 
ting, mostly dentate at the margin ; asci pear-shaped, or shortly 
clavate, 8-spored ; sporidia elliptical, uniseptate, unequal, the lower 
cell double the length of the upper, and a little attenuated, 9-10 x 
4-5 p, hyaline. 
On Alsophila rebeccce. Queensland. 
1667. Asterina (Asterella) subcuticulosa. Che. Grev. 
xvi., 81. 
On the surface of leaves. Perithecia thin, flattened, irregular 
or confluent, without mycelium, black, or brown under a lens ; asci 
pear-shaped ; sporidia elliptic clavate, uniseptate, hyaline, upper 
cell broadest (10-12x4 p). 
On fading and dead leaves of Olearia argophylla. N.S.Wales. 
Victoria. 
1668. Asterina reptans. Berh. 4' Curt. Cuba. 734. Sacc. 
Syll. 198. 
Mycelium thin, rather reticulated ; perithecia minute, constructed 
from the radiating cells ; asci clavate, sporidia oblong, somewhat 
fusiform, uniseptate. 
On leaves. Queensland. 
*** Asteridium. Sporidia multisepiate. 
1669. Asterina (Asteridium) eucalypti. Che. fy Mass, (not 
Pass.) Grev. xvi., 74. 
Very densely gregarious. Perithecia minute, discoid, flattened, 
black ; asci 4 spored, pyriform ; sporidia elongated, ellipsoid, 
triseptate, constricted, brown, one joint thickened, 28 X 10 p. 
On dead leaves of Eucalyptus amygdalina. Victoria. 
Genus 58. DIMEROSFORIUM. Fclcl. 
Perithecia superficial, globose, without mouth, between membra- 
naceous and carbonaceous, seated on a copious black, rather crus- 
taceous, conidia-bearing mycelium ; asci short, 8-spored ; sporidia 
two-celled, hyaline or brown. 
