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but under a lens finely seriato-striate; margin indistinctly 
fimbriate. Stem about 4 an inch high, not 4 a line thick 
erect springing from a membranous orbicular base, velvety, 
of a yellowish fawn colour. Hymenium distinctly defined ; 
often with a little raised border at the base springing from 
the edge of pileus ochraceoüs with a cinereous tinge subse- 
tulose, distinctly though minutely marked with elongated 
sometimes branched lines. 
A very elegant species which cannot be confounded with 
any described species. It resembles, perhaps, Thelephora au- 
rantiaca more than any other Fungus; but it is abundantly 
distinct. — 
* Stereum /obatum, Kze. 
Java. Zollinger, n. 91. 
* Nidularia byssiseda, Jung. 
Java. Zollinger, n. 201. 
* Guepinia fissa. Berk. 
Java. Zollinger, n. 123. 
Not so much divided as the original specimens in the 
British Museum ; but otherwise not different. : 
18. Dothidea  examinans, Berk. et Mont. gregaria, 
erumpens, tuberculosa, nigra; tuberculis cæspitosis depressis 
Collapsis opacis intus unipluri-cellulosis. Spheria exami- 
nans, Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. i, p. 156. 
On decayed sticks bursting through the bark. Java. 
Zollinger, n. 520. 
Forming little gregarious scattered or seriate patches 
Scarcely a line broad of an opake black. Patches tuber- 
culated ; tubercles depressed, excavated, as if collapsed, con- 
sisting externally of a cellular coat, which when viewed by 
transmitted light is of a deep blue, internally containing 
Sometimes a single cell only; but more generally z large 
quantity of subglobose cells without any proper perithecium 
™mersed in a cellular black stroma. Asci short obtuse 
containing subeymbiform brown sporidia. The opacity of 
the outer surface of the tubercles arises from the con- 
ion of the walls of the cells of which it is composed. 
