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OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI— continued. 



General Characters. 



Peuiophora, 



1133 



1134 



1135 

 1136 



1137 

 1138 



1139 



1140 

 1141 



Hymenochaste, Coniopbora, Stereum, Auricularia — continued. 



Wood, bark, &c. ... 



Rotten wood 



Wood 

 Bark 



Bark of Citrus 

 Rotten wood, &c. ... 



On ground and 

 running up stems 

 of plants 



Running over mosses 

 and twigs 



Dead brandies 



Spread out over fibrils, membranous, separating from matrix, pinki.sh 



or pale. 

 Expanded, soft, waxy, tbin, irregular, smootb, bluish grey tinged with 



purple. 

 Ilymenium powdery, rhubarb colour, broken Into little elevations. 

 Spre.ad out, vermilion, margin fringed, whitish. When dry hymenium 



resembles patches of dried blood (Cooke). 

 Waxy, cracking, flesh colour to pale. Margin decided, smooth. 

 White, spreading, encrusting, thick, soft, with profuse penetrating 



mycelium. 

 Spread out, fleshy or waxy, turuing hard, incrusting and variable 



in form, wliitish. 



Soft, tawny, arising from a wliite membranous woolly mycelium. 



Broadly spread out, usually forming a thin, powdery, bright sulphur- 

 yellowish str.atum. 



Bark and wood 



Rotting bamboo 



On Finns contorki ... 



Branches... 

 Trunks ... 

 Thin layer on wood 



and bark 

 Bark 



Wood 



Wood and bark 



Bark 

 Bark 



Wood and bark 



Very broadly spread and confluent, umber, velvety in centre, and 



margin white and downy. 

 Roundish patches, yellowish tan, tough, thiu, fringed, cracked in 



drying. 

 Broiidly spread, ochrey to flesh colour. Margin white and with loose 



fibres. 

 Wa.Ky, cracking, confluent, ash coloured or brownish. 

 Pale, spreading, thick, peeling, downy. 

 Bro.adly spread, thin, wa.xy, radiating at margin, red or orange with 



pink bloom. 

 Very thin, leathery to papery, very broadly spread out and reflcxed, 



rough haired, ash coloured, and margin tawuy. 

 Membranous, leathery, broadly spread out, ochrey yellow, downy. 



Margin reflexed. 

 Spread out, clear rose pink, turning white, rather fleshy, fringed. 



Beautiful species, sometimes in scattered patches. 

 Minute, snowy wliite, rather circular scattered patches. 

 Spread out, margin reddish brown, notched, free, dowuy. 

 Isolated round patches becoming confluent and widely extending, 



irregularly lobed, wine colour or dark brown. 



Thelephora, Couiopbora, Auricularia, Merulius, Corticium, Hypochnus. 



On ground and bark 

 Walls, &c. 

 Branches, &c. 

 Decayed pine 



Bark, wood, leaves, 



&c. 

 Rotten wood 



Spreading. Hymenium brown, powdery, yellow at circumference. 



In thin patches, foot or more in di.amcter, fragile, yellowish. 



Widely spreading, at length breaking up, mouse coloured. 



Widely spreading, membranous. Margin whitish, fringed. Hymenium 



dark olive, powdery. 

 Spreading, often spongy, pas.sing iuto radiating cord-like branching 



sulphur-coloured threads. 

 Developed beneath bark, spreading, downy, greenisli. 



Corticium, Cyphella, Peziza. 



Branches... 



Fir trunks 



branches 

 Wood 



and 



Pure white, at first scattered, becoming confluent and forming irregular 

 patches, cup shaped at first, then expanded and flattened. 



Waxy, tough, rather leathery, cup shaped, then expanded, confluent, 

 white, downy. 



Gregarious, cup shaped, cap somewhat elliptical, wrinkled, crisped, 

 brown, downy. 



