AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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within ; sporules shortly fusoid, straight, rarely curved (5-6 X 2 /a), 
hyaline, continuous ; basidia arising from an ochraceous spori- 
ferous base. 
On pericarp of Macrozamia. Queensland. 
Genus 7. CYTISPORA. Fries. 
Stroma covered or erumpent, internally cellular ; sporules very 
copious, oblong, sausage- shaped, continuous, hyaline, when moist 
expelled in tendrils. 
1840. Cytispora xanthosperma. Fr. Syst. Myc. n., 543. 
Sacc. Syll. 1531. 
Conceptacles none, cells circinate, about a central column ; asci 
covered, sporules evolved in golden tendrils, minute, curved, 
hyaline. 
On Salix Babylonica. Victoria. (Fig. 364.) 
1841. Cytispora verrucula. Sacc. Sf Berl. Sacc. Syll. 
Addit. 4374. 
Stroma soon erumpent and almost superficial, globose or 
depressed, black, punctate with minute ostiola; perithecia few, 
immersed. Sporules sausage-shaped, hyaline (6xl| /a), on long, 
branched basidia. 
On branches. Queensland. 
Section 2. Ph^osfor.®. 
Genus 8. SFH1EROFSIS. Lev. 
Perithecia produced beneath the cuticle, erumpent, globose, 
papillate, between membranaceous and carbonaceous, black. 
Sporules ovoid or oblong, continuous, dingy brownish, on rod-like 
basidia. 
1842. Sphmropsis tricorynes. B. <£■ Br. Linn. Trans, n., 
68. Sacc. Syll. 1720. 
Perithecia minute, black, immersed in the parenchyma of the 
leaves ; sporules elliptic, 30 y long. 
On Tricoryne anceps. Queensland. 
1843. Splicer op sis rosarum. Cooke Ellis Grev. Sacc. 
Syll. 1649. 
Rather gregarious or scattered, perithecia covered, splitting the 
epidermis ; sporules elliptical, with a single nucleus, 25 x 10 y. 
On branches of Rosa. Queensland. 
1844. Sphseropsis nnmerosa. Cke. 8f M. Grev. xx. 
Gregarious, perithecia semi-immersed, or nearly superficial, 
globose, black, becoming flattened. Sporules elliptical, continuous, 
brown (15 X 8 y). 
On dead bark. Victoria. 
