OF AUSTRALIAN FimGl— continued. 



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Habitat. 



N.S.W. 



General Characters. 



Sp. PL 1157 (1753). — Elvella, Thelepliora — continued. 



Dead branches 

 Leaves 



Rotten wood 

 Trunks ... 



Old wood 



Toughisl), variable in form, folded and wavy, bright orange. 



Minute, hemispherical, point-.likc, dark-greeu scattered spots on upper 

 surface of leaf. 



Irregular, gelatinous, pale, scented. 



Tufted, soft, viscid, palc-flesh colour, at first club shaped, then com- 

 pressed. Lobed .and folded. Conidial stage of Ombrophila sarcvides. 



Expanded, flattened, wavy, rather viscid, white to hyaline, brown when 

 dry. 



Grev. XVIII. 25 (1889). 



12511 ... I ... I ... I ... I N.S.W. 1 



Wood 



Inflated, gelatinous, lobate, pale sooty brown, very soft and watery, 

 covered with scattered coloured h.airs. 



Myo. Eiir. II. 172 (1825).— Hydnuni. 



12521 ... I ... I ... I ... I ... I Q. I B. I Ground .and trunks j Gelatinous, tremulous, semicircular, somewhat stalked, greyish green 

 I I I I I 111 I to brownish. Only trenicUoid fungus with true spines. 



Rotten wood 

 Dry wood 

 Rotten branches .. 

 Stems of Succbaruii 



Bark 

 Bark 

 Rotten wood 



Nearly round, rooting, yellowish, contorted at length, hyaline. 



Sm.alt, vermilion, lobate and folded. 



Small, reddish brown, bUack when dry, cr.ackcd and folded. 



Irregular, thin, gelatinous, orange red, seated on whitish layer, spreading 



over charred stems of sugar cane. 

 White, circular, depressed in centre, cup shaped. 

 Bursting through, arrauged in a row, whitish, then yellowish. 

 Nearly round, folded, yellow to orange, colour persistent. 



PI. riouion. 92 (1825). — Dacryomyce.s, Meriilius, Tremella. 



Rotten wood 



Melaleuca 

 Wood 



Wood and fences 



of 



Jelly-like to tough, orange yellow, solitary or in tufts. .Stem at first 



clubbed, then expanding into cup shape. 

 Minute, velvety, red. Stem short, velvety. Hyraenium obliquely cup 



shaped. 

 Tufted, somewhat erect, rooting. Cap semicircular, spoon shaped. Stem 



downy, glaucous. 



Syst. Myc. I. 485 (1821).— Clavaria. 



Rotten wood 

 Diimp logs 



Trimks ... 



Rotten wood 



Trunks ... 



Wood and dead fir 

 leaves 



Tufted, rooting, viscid, orange yellow. Clubs short, grown together at 



base. 

 Branched, tough, pale. Trunk thin, twice or thrice forked. Branches 



expanded at apex like a spoon each bearing from three to five 



finger-like processes. 

 Simple, solitary, jelly-like, yellow. Clubs thickened, compressed. Stem 



tapering. 

 Small, bursting through, reddish brown. Stem compressed, palmate 



above. Branches few. 

 Scattered, tapering, compressed, honey yellow, curved. Stem very short, 



but distinct. 

 Simple, solitary, elongated, linear, yellow. Clubs short, grown together 



at base. 



