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1946. Hormiscium stilbosporum. Corda in Sturm, t. 46,. 
Sacc. Syll. 1283. 
Tufts erumpent, pulverulent, elongated, confluent, quite black ; 
chains unequal, branched or simple, flexuous ; conidia almost equal, 
somewhat quadrate, connate, brown, 7-8 y diam. 
On branches. Queensland. (Fig. 309.) 
1947. Hormiscium pitliyophilum. Nees. Sacc. Syll. 1286* 
=Torula pinophila. Chev. FI. Par. t. 34. 
Effused, thick, superficial, polymorphous, quite black, chains of 
conidia vaguely branched, apex of the branches attenuated, and 
slightly curved; conidia cubical or globosely cubical, coherent, 
sooty brown, 18-20 y diam. 
On pine branches. N.S. Wales. 
Genus 16. HETEROBOTRYS. Sacc. 
Conidia of two forms, in chains, or together in glomerules, 
sphteroid, on the same mycelium, the larger in chains, somewhat 
hyaline, the smaller in glomerules, sooty ; hyphaj scarcely distinct, 
from the conidia. 
1948. Heterobotrys paradoxa. Sacc. Hediv. 1889. Sacc. 
Syll. 1296. 
Caespitose, gregarious, black, growing on leaves ; threads 
straggling, creeping, septate, pale sooty, guttulate, 8-12 y thick ; 
conidia either in chains connected by a very short sterigma, 
sphrerical or somewhat deltoid, 12 y diam., nearly hyaline, or in 
glomerules much smaller, 6 y diam., brown. 
On leaves. Kangaroo Island. (Fig, 310.) 
Genus 17. FERICONIA. Bon. 
Sterile hyphas creeping, sometimes obsolete, fertile simple, 
brown, bearing spores at the apex, simple or shortly branched. 
Conidia globose, brown, not in chains. 
1949. Fericonia nigrella. Berk. Ann. N. Hist., No. 226, 
t. xin.,/. 16. Sacc. Syll. 1328. 
Very minute, black, scarcely l m.m. high ; fertile threads 
simple, thin, 4-5 septate ; capitulum globose or ellipsoid, conidia 
globose, minutely rough, coloured, 6-8 y diam. 
On leaves of Carex. Queensland. (Fig. 311.) 
Section 2. Didymospor.®. 
Conidia ovoid or oblong, typically uniseptate. 
Sub- Section 1. Micronemese. 
Hyphce very short or scarcely distinct. 
Genus 18. BISPORA. Corda. 
Conidia oblong, uniseptate, brown, produced in chains ; hyphas- 
very short, simple. 
