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Sub-Section 1, Microneme*. Sa.cc. 
Hyphce very short , or scarcely distinct from the conidia. 
Genus 13. CONIOSPORIUM. Link. 
Conidia globose, or ovoid, or discoid, arising from very short 
hyaline threads, for the most part effused and smearing. 
1942 . Coniosporium inquinans. DR. (J- Mont. Sacc. Syll. 
1152.=Gymnosporium inquinans. Berk. Walw. Lusit. No. 
60 . 
Effused, very black ; tufts rounded or oblong, confluent and 
irregular ; conidia ovate-globose, opaque, brown, mixed with the 
threads. 
On Arundo. W. Australia. (Fig. 307.) 
1943 . Coniosporium pterospermum. Cke. <j* Mass. Grev. 
xix., 90. 
Pustules gregarious, small, erumpent, elliptical, or elongated, 
blackish, mycelium forming a kind of pulvinate stroma, from which 
arise short hyaline sporophores, conidia apical, subglobose or oblong 
in outline, becoming discoid when free, with a membranous margin, 
expanded into about six truncate projections, each of which is 
concave at the apex, spore body globose, continuous, olive-brown, 
12 fj., including the membranous expansion, in one plane 25 p. 
On Lepidospermum. Victoria. 
Genus 14. TORULA. Pers. 
Sterile hyplne decumbent ; fertile short or very short, or scarcely 
distinct from the conidia. Conidia in chains, falling away singly 
or in a series, continuous, brown or black, globose, oblong or sub- 
fusoid. 
1944 . Torula herbarum. Link. Obs. i., 19. Sacc. Syll. 
1230. 
Tufts effused, ochraceous olive, then becoming black, rather 
velvety, sterile threads creeping, septate, sooty ; fertile erect, short 
simple or branched, soon breaking up into globose, olive, then, 
black. Conidia 6-7 p diam. 
On rotting stems. Queensland. 
1945 . Torula mycetophila. Cke. 4' Mass. Grev. xvi., 3. 
Tufts minute, very thin, scattered, black, hyphae sparingly 
branched, nearly straight ; conidia globose-compressed, strongly 
constricted at the joints, dark olive, 10 p diam. 
On Polyporus cinnabarinus. Victoria. (Fig. 308.) 
Genus 15. HORMISCIUM. ICunze. 
Hyphae short or obsolete, scarcely distinct from the conidia. 
Conidia in chains (articulate), with difficulty falling away, cubical, 
cubically globose, brown. 
