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1981 . Macrosporium Readeri. Winter Rev. Myc. 1886, 
212. Sacc. Syll. Add. 3640. 
Tufts forming an effused black substratum, fascicles of hyphaa 
more or less convergent, minute ; hyph® erect, simple, very long, 
rigid, flexuous and torulose, closely septate, brown (300-320 x 9- 
10 jj.) ; conidia clavate, attenuated into a cylindrical stem, trans- 
verse septa 10-14, longitudinal 2, or more, constricted, brown 
(110-140x19-20 y.). 
On stems of thistle. Victoria. 
1982 . IKtacrosporium peponicolum. Habit, in Sitz. 1867. 
Sacc. Syll. 2549. 
Forming rather large, orbicular, black spots ; sterile threads 
slender, pale, creeping ; fertile threads short, erect, septate ; 
conidia clavate, triseptate, then multiseptate and muriform, con- 
stricted, variable in size, amber brown (40-50x16 /a), attenuated 
below into a hyaline pedicel. 
On papaw fruit. Queensland. 
Genus 30. FUMAGO. Pers. 
Hyph® decumbent, intricate, often confluent in muriformly- 
divided ganglise, frequently forming a black, somewhat evanescent, 
crust. Fertile hyph® erect, branched. Conidia ovoid, oblong, 
or deformed, 1-2 septate, typically in chains = conidia of Cap- 
nodium. 
1983 . Fumago vagans. Pers. Myc. Pur. i., p. 9. Sacc. 
Syll. 2618. 
Threads creeping, scatteringly branched, either free or fascicu- 
late, often confluent in cellulose ganglia, torulose, olive or sooty 
brown, constituting a thinly effused, membranaceous, black 
stratum. Fertile threads ascending, short, and corymbosely 
branched above. Conidia apical on the branches in short chains, 
for the most part two-celled, rarely continuous, or 2-septate, 5-15 p 
long. 
On living leaves. Queensland. (Fig. 322.) 
Family III. STILBE2E. Fr. 
Byssoid fungi, pale or brown. Sterile hypli® creeping, sparse ; 
fertile collected in fascicles (stroma), bearing conidia at the apex. 
Series 1. Hyalostilbeie. Sacc. 
llyphce and conidia pallid. 
Genus 31. STIX.BUM. Tode. 
Stroma rather tapering, capitate at the apex, bearing conidia 
from the coalescing threads. Conidia minute, continuous, at first 
involved in mucus. 
1984 . Stilbum erythrocephalum. Ditin. Sturm. FI. hi t. 
45. Sacc. Syll. 2680. 
Gregarious or somewhat scattered, stem rather thick, terminated 
by a rosy or red globosely-turbinate mealy capitulum ; conidia 
