AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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FUNGI IMPERFECTS. 
6 . SPHJER,OFSIDE.a:. Lev. 
Fungi having a peritheciiun, but without asci ; sporules (stylo- 
spores and spermatia of authors), produced within perithecia, on 
more or less manifest basidia. 
Family I. SPHJERIOIDEJE. Sacc. 
Perithecia membranaceous, carbonaceous, or subcoriaceous, 
black (never fleshy, bright coloured), globose, conical, or lens- 
shaped, entire, immersed or superficial. 
Section 1. Hyalosporjs. 
Genus 1. FHYLLOSTICTA. Pers. 
Perithecia covered by the epidermis, lenticular, thinly membra- 
naceous, often pierced with a pore, punctiform, growing on 
decoloured spots on leaves, rarely on stems or branches ; sporules 
small, ovoid or oblong, continuous, hyaline, basidia small or 
none. 
1802 . Pkyllosticta circumscissa. Che. Grev. xi., 150. 
Sacc. Syll . 15. 
On both surfaces ; spots orbicular, rufous brown, at length 
falling out and leaving round holes, perithecia few, minute, 
innate ; sporules elliptic, 8x2/1. 
On leaves of Prunus armeniaca and Cerasus. Queensland. 
1803 . Pliyllosticta Rosae. Desm. Exs. 687. Sacc. Syll. 31. 
Epiphyllous. Perithecia very small, semi-immersed, black, 
globose, scattered on rather circular spots, at first greenish, then 
brownish, or greyish, with a purple border ; sporules cylindrical, 
obtuse, with 3 or 4 nuclei, expelled in white tendrils. 
On rose leaves. Victoria. 
1804 . Pliyllosticta ruborum. Sacc. Syll. 30. 
Epiphyllous ; spots minute, whitish, often about the veins ; 
perithecia few, punctiform, lens-shaped ( t ' 0 m.tn. diam.) ; sporules 
attenuated, oblong (5 x 11 p), hyaline. 
On leaves of liubus. Victoria. 
1805 . Pliyllosticta eucalypti. 77mm. Lusit. 374. Sacc. 
Syll. 33. 
Epiphyllous ; perithecia gregarious, minute, punctiform, slightly 
emergent, shining, black, seated on large irregular spots, which 
■are at first dingy brown, then whitish, girt by a narrow, purple 
border ; sporules continuous, shortly ellipsoid (4 x 1^ p), hyaline. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Victoria. 
