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violet-black; surface of the net of the capillitium with the meshes 
very small, less, or little larger than the spores ; spores bright 
violet, almost smooth, 6^-9 p, diam. 
On rotten wood, etc. Victoria. West Australia. Queensland. 
Tasmania. Auderson’s Creek. New Guinea. 
2037. Stemonitis Friesiana. DeBary. Mass. Mon. p. 89. 
=Coinatricha Friesiana. Rostfi. Mon. 199 {Figs. 51, 56). 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 1356. 
SporaDgia globose, ovate, or ellipsoid, erect (£-] | m.m. high) ; 
stem subulate, black, shining (1^-3 m.m. long, now and then 
6 m.m.), penetrating within as a columella, reaching from the 
height of the sporangium, then spreading in numerous threads ; 
capillitium of flexuous threads combined into a net, not reaching 
the margin in free ends, nearly equally thick; spores violet-brown, 
with a thick, smooth membrane, 8-10 /a diam. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. Tasmania. 
2038. Stemonitis ferruginea. Ehr. Sylo. Berl. 1818. Sacc. 
Syll. vii., 1365. Rtfki. Mon. 196,/. 81-39, 41-44. 
Sporangia cylindrical, obtuse, gregarious, standing on a strongly- 
developed hypothallus ; columella cleaving the apex of the 
sporangium, with a few threads of ihe capillitium ; hypothallus, 
stem, columella, and capillitium violet-black, but the mass of 
spores ferruginous cinnamon ; surface of the net of the capillitium 
with very small meshes, but little larger than the spores; spores 
bright ferruginous, 5^-7| y diam. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. New Zealand. (_Fig. 347.) 
Sub-Section 2. Lamprodermeae. 
Capillitium springing from the apical portion of a short or elongated 
columella. 
Genus 5. LAMFRODERMA. B. Rtfki. Mon. 202. 
Sporangium globose or ellipsoid, stipitate ; stem lengthened 
directly into the columella, scarce reaching half the height of the 
sporangium, either cylindrical, or swollen and clavate at the apex ; 
capillitium fasciculate, originating from the base, usually regularly 
forked, rarely combined into a tangled net ; wall of sporangium 
delicate, usually of a metallic lustre, now and then thick, with the 
saucer-like base of the sporangium permanent. 
2039. Lamproderma echinulatum. Berk. Rostfi. Mon. 
App. p. 25. Sacc. Syll. vii., 1344.=Stemonitis echinulata. 
Berk. FI. Tasm. 268. 
Sporangia stipitate, dark steel-blue, or blackish, iridescent; 
stem short, subcylindrical, expanding at the base into a firm 
hypothallus, filled with large, thick-walled cells that are globose 
or polygonal from mutual pressure, becoming smaller near the 
apex of the stem ; columella thick, about one-third the height of 
