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Genus 11. NEMATOGONIUM. Desm. 
Sterile hyph® creeping ; fertile erect, articulate, spore-bearing 
joint globose, even ; sterile incrassated at each end ; conidia even. 
1939. Nematogonium aurantiacum. Desm. Ann. Set. Nat. 
1834, 70, t. i,f. 1. Sacc Syll. 867. 
Tufts velvety, orange- tawny, effused ; sterile threads creeping , 
thin ; fertile erect, articulate, joints cylindrical, inflated at each 
end, spore-bearing joints globose, interposed ; conidia rather large, 
obovoid, rather acute at the base, 15 x 10 /i, almost orange, 
somewhat capitate, sessile. 
On bark and wood. Australia. (Fig. 305.) 
1940. Mematogonium aureum. Berk. Eng. FI. v., 340. 
Sacc. Syll. 868. 
Fertile threads erect, short, clavate, with about four articula- 
tions ; conidia ellipsoid, golden yellow, rarely scattered. 
On bark. Queensland. 
Section 2. Didymosporas. 
Conidia ovoid, oblong, or shortly fusoid, uniseptate, hyaline or 
brightly coloured. 
Genus 12. TRICHOTHECITJM. Link. 
Sterile threads creeping, fertile simple, erect ; conidia apical, 
solitary, uniseptate, hyaline, or brightly coloured. 
1941. Trichothecium roseum. 'Link. Obs. i., 16, /. 27. Sacc - 
Syll. 881. 
Tufts pulvinate, confluent, velvety, rather large, at first white, 
at length rosy ; sterile threads creeping, branched, septate, intri- 
cate, white ; fertile threads erect, nearly simple, a little or scarcely 
septate, scarcely thickened at the apex; conidia apical, solitary, 
pyriform, uniseptate, a little constricted at the septum, hyaline, 
then rosy, even, 12-18 X 8-10 y. 
On fruit, branches, leaves, etc. Victoria. (Fig. 306.) 
Section 3. Phragmospor.e. 
Conidia oblong, or fusoid, or elongated, or vermicular, 2 to 
many septate, hyaline or brightly coloured. 
(None recorded.) 
Family II. DEMATIEiE. Fries. 
Fungi byssoid, brown or black, rather rigid, hyph® lax (not com- 
pound) ; hyplm; and conidia typically black, sometimes with the 
hyph® and the conidia black, and sometimes with the hyph® black 
and conidia hyaline. 
Section 1. Amerosporas. Sacc. 
Conidia continuous, globose, ovoid or oblong, becoming blackish, 
or subhyaline (when the threads are always brown). 
