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gent, septate above ; conidia oblong or ovoid, obscurely uniseptate, 
becoming blackish. 
On leaves of Typha. Victoria. 
1961. Cladosporium papyricolum. B. Br. Linn. Trans., 
1883, p. 68. Sacc. Syll. 1774. 
Threads irregularly branched, hyaline above, brown below ; 
conidia numerous, ovate-oblong, pale brown, binucleate, 20 p long. 
On paper forming a dark grey stratum. Queensland. 
Section 3. Phragmosporje. 
Genus 22. HELMINTHOSPORIUM. Link. 
Hyphas rather rigid, almost simple, brown, often growing on 
wood. Conidia fusoid, or elongated-clavate, many septate, brown, 
rigid, even. 
1962. Helmintliosporium Ravenelii. Curt, in Sill. Journ., 
1848, 352. Sacc. Syll 1971. 
Spongy ; threads flaccid, flexuous, nodulose, branched, inarticu- 
late ; conidia cymbiform, 3-4 septate, brown, 50 p long ; endo- 
chromes connected by an isthmus. 
On infloresence of grasses ( Sporobolus ). Queensland. 
1963. Helmintliosporium macrocarpum. Grev. Scot. t. 148. 
Sacc. Syll. 1973. 
Effused, velvety, dark olive or sooty brown ; threads aggregated, 
lax, subulate, simple, or very sparingly branched, septate ; 400- 
500 x 15-20 p, obtuse at the apex, conidia elongated-clavate, 6-9 
septate, not constricted, sooty brown, 60-80x15-18 p, apical. 
On trunks and branches. Queensland. 
1964. Helniinthosporium rliabdiferum. B. Sc Br. Ann. 
Nat. Hist. 1865, No. 1053. Sacc. Syll. 2010. 
Effused, black ; byphse erect, sparingly branched, very shortly 
septate, conidia straight, at first oblong and pallid, 1-2 septate, 
then elongated and somewhat linear, dark brown, 7-11 septate, 
torulose, 50-100 p long. 
On fruits. S. Australia. 
1965. Helmintliosporium puccinioides. Sacc. 4 Berl. 
Sacc. Syll. 1966. 
Tufts on both surfaces, black, loosely gregarious, disciform, com- 
pact, resembling a Puccinia, stromatic base convex, thick, black ; 
bypha± emergent, filiform, tortuous, spuriously septate, pale sooty 
brown, paler at the apex ; conidia clavate, rounded at the apex, 
35-37 x7-9 p, 3-4 septate, not constricted, pale sooty brown. 
On dead leaves of Tristania laurina. Queensland. 
1966. Helmintliosporium inconspicuum. Cke. 4' EH. Grev. 
t. 99, f. 19. Sacc. Syll. 1969. 
Very thinly effused ; threads elongated, septate, nodulose, pale- 
brown ; conidia lanceolate, at first 4-6 nucleate, then 3-5 septate, 
80-120x20 p ; epispore thin. 
On leaves of maize. Queensland. (Fig. 316.) 
