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Genus 4. ASTEROMELLA. Pass. $ Ilium. 
Perithecia globose, minute, often growing on leaves, disposed 
in dense black asteroma- like spots ; sporules ovoid or rather 
cylindrical, hyaline, continuous. 
1834. Asteromella acacias. Cooke Grev. xix., 5. 
Perithecia very numerous, densely crowded and forming 
blackish spots; minute (scarcely exceeding 25 /a diam.), black, 
membranaceous, pierced at the apex ; sporules narrowly elliptical, 
continuous, hyaline, straight, 2£ x 1 p. 
On phyllodes of Acacia. Victoria. (Pig. 274.) 
1835. Asteromella epitrema. Cooke Grev. xx., 6. 
Spots on the upper surface, black, somewhat orbicular or con- 
fluent, bearing a mycelium of brown jointed threads ; perithecia 
minute, subglobose, membranaceous, seated on the mycelium ; 
sporules numerous, somewhat fusiform, or narrowly elliptical, con- 
tinuous, guttulate, hyaline, 10-12 X 3 /a. 
On living leaves of Trema aspera. Queensland. 
1836. Asteromella liomalanthi. Che. 8f Mass. 
Spots suborbicular, on both surfaces, fuliginous (1 c.m. diam.), 
dotted with the minute, black, punctiform, superficial, membrana- 
ceous perithecia ; sporules elliptic, hyaline, 5 X 3 /a. 
On leaves of Homalanthus populifolius. Queensland. 
Genus 5. CH1ETOPHOMA. Cooke. 
Perithecia membranaceous, minute, superficial, nestling amongst 
intricate hyph» ; sporules small, continuous, hyaline. 
1837. Chaetophoma eutricha. Sacc. 6f Berl. Sacc. Syll. 
4357. 
Mycelium epiphyllous, spots black, often confluent, threads of 
the mycelium effused, filiform, branched and anastomosing, bearing 
hemispherical lateral nodules, sooty-brown; perithecia punctiform, 
black, girt by the hyplue, sporules oblong, allantoid, curved, 4 x 
/a, hyaline. 
On leaves of Castanospermum. Queensland. 
Genus 6. DOTHIORELLA. Sacc. 
Perithecia erumpent, aggregated in clusters on a basal stroma, 
or immersed in it ; sporules ovoid or oblong, continuous, hyaline. 
1838. Dothiorella amygdali. Cke. tj- Mass. Grev. xix., 91. 
Perithecia innate, botryose, transversely erumpent, black, opaque, 
not papillate, rather gelatinous when moist; sporules elliptical, 
hyaline, granular within (22-25 x 8-10 /a), on rather thick basidia 
of equal length. 
On bark of peach and almond. Victoria. (Pig. 363.) 
1839. Dothiorella pericarpica. Sacc. Pug. Austr. p. 15, 
fig. 5. 
Perithecia in erumpent clusters, black, pulvinate, tuberculose, 
unequal (scarce 1 m.m. broad), globose or angular, minute, paler 
