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1972. Cercospora solanacea. Sacc. Berl. Sacc. Syll. 2161. 
Spots subcircular, brown, immarginate, tufts punctiform, sooty 
olive, hyplue fasciculate, cylindrical, tortuous, 40-50 x 4-5 //., olive ; 
conidia rod-like, rather acute downwards, obtuse above, curved, 3-4 
septate, subhyaline, 40-60 X 4-5 p. 
On leaves of Solanum verbascifolium, Queensland. 
1973. Cercospora eucalypti. Glee. 8 f Mass. Grev. xviii., 7. 
Spots rather circular, or confluent, pallid, with a rosy margin ; 
threads abbreviated ; conidia cylindrical, curved, obtuse at both 
ends, scarcely visibly septate, pallid, 30-35 X 4 /x. 
On fading Eucalyptus leaves. Victoria. (Fig. 318.) 
Genus 25. HETEROSFORIUM. Klot. 
Threads rather soft, somewhat ciespitose, often branched ; 
conidia oblong, 2, or many-septate, externally echinulate or granu- 
late. 
1974. Heterosporium epimyces. Cke. fy Mass. Grev. xvi., 
p. 80. 
Olive, effused in more or less dense velvety patches. Threads 
sparingly furcate, often simple, flexnous, sparsely septate, pale 
brown ; conidia 1-3 septate, elliptical, rounded at the ends, 
minutely warted, pale olive (25-30 x 8 p). 
On decayed Agarics. Victoria. 
Section 4. Dictyospor.®. 
Conidia globose, sarcina-form or oblong, transversely and longi- 
tudinally septate, brown. 
Sub-Section 7. Micronemeae. 
Hyphen very short, or scarcely distinct. 
Genus 26. SPORIDESMIUM. Link. 
Conidia ovoid, then oblong, often large, subsessile or shortly 
stipitate, clathrately septate, smoky brown. 
1975. Sporidesmium atrofuscum. Cooke Grev. xii., 12. 
Sacc. Syll. 2391. 
Effused, velvety, black ; conidia elongated, clavate, irregular. 
50-80 x 15-20 ju, divided in all directions into quadrate cells, dark 
brown. 
On wood. Victoria. (Fig. 319.) 
1976. Sporidesmium melanopus. B. Br. Ann. Nat. Ilist. 
No. 455. Sacc. Syll. 2356. 
Tufts broad, black ; conidia subglobose, opaque, apparently 
simple, then multiseptate, seated on a cellular base of variable 
size. 
On bark. Victoria. 
