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Genus 9. SEPEDOKTIUM, Link. 
Hyphaa creeping, vaguely branched ; conidia acrogenous on the 
branches, solitary, or 2 to 3 together, globose, continuous, spinu- 
lose, or ovoid, hyaline, and bright coloured. 
1934. Sepedonium clirysospermum. Link. Sp. i., 29. 
Sacc. Syll. 754. 
Ilyphaa effused, then interwoven, rather thick, almost hyaline, 
variously forked, spore-bearing branches lateral, short, spreading ; 
conidia solitary, globose, spinulose, yellow, or golden yellow, 14-16 
p diam. 
In Boleti, etc. Victoria. Queensland. W. Australia. (Fig. 
303.) 
1935. Sepedonium aureofulvum. Che. tip Mass. Grev. 
xvi., 76. 
Threads creeping, branched ; conidia globose, profuse, forming a 
golden-tawny powder, within decaying Polyporei, epispore thin, 
minutely rough, 9-10 p diam. 
On Polyporus. Victoria. 
Genus 10. VERTICILLIUM. Nees. 
Sterile threads creeping, fertile erect, branches and branchlets 
verticellate, rather long, bearing a single spore at the tips ; conidia 
soon falling away, globose-ovoid, hyaline, or bright coloured. 
1936. Verticillium eximium. Berk. Linn. Journ. xm., 175. 
Sacc. Syll. 792. 
Threads branched, branches short, thickened at their apices, 
furnished with radiating, acute, spore-bearing processes, swollen at 
the base ; conidia oblong, fixed obliquely to a very short pedicel, 
fi-8 p long. 
On Clavaria. N. S. Wales. 
1937. Verticillium niveum. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 271. Sacc. 
Syll. 797. 
White, branched ; branches rather short, thickened at the base ; 
conidia oblong, 6-7 p long. 
On dead Agarics. Tasmania. (Fig. 304.) 
1938. Verticillium lateritium. Berk, in Handbook 635. 
Sacc. Syll. 808. 
Hyphaa elegantly and many times verticellately branched, 
collected in brick-red, velvety, or woolly tufts, branches 3 or 4 
together, acute at the apices ; conidia ellipsoid-oblong, rounded at 
both ends, 4-6 X 2^-3 p ; hyplne and conidia pellucid, brick-red. 
On maize. Victoria. 
