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OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI— continued. 



Fl. Berol. 400 (1787).— Sphferia, Peziza. 



1597 



1598 

 1599 



Dung 



Rotten wood 

 Dung 



S.V.S. 409 (1849).— Rliopalopsis, Daklinia, Hypoxylon. 



Rotting bark 

 Trunks ... 



Carp. ir. 23 (1861).— Sphieria, Hypoxylon. 



16021 ... 1 ... I ... j ... [ ... I Q. I B. I Branches and logs 



Erect, externally blackish, simple or branched. Stem long, clubbed at 



base, expanded into cup at apex. 

 Branched, nearly even, branches ending in pileiforra cups, blackish. 

 Erect, simple, at iirst club shaped, soon cup shaped, tapering into 



long black downy stem, disc white, punctate with black openings. 



Club shaped, black, bright, and shining. Receptacles thickly crowded, 



openings minute. 

 Kesembliug in habit and mode of growth the Lichen Celraria trislis, 



fringed, fringes passing into receptacles at apex. 



Spread out, large, thick, wavy, at length quite black, carbonaceous, 

 hollow within. 



Carp. II. 42 (1863). — Hypoxylon, Sphroria, Anthostoma, Diatrype. 



Branches ... Developed within bark, then bursting through, unpolished, black. 



Receptacles nearly globose, small. 

 Wood ... ... Bursting through, circular, cup sh.aped, disc rough with prominent 



openings of receptacles, which are immersed in centre. 

 Branches ... Bursting through, circular or oval, broadly expanded, black without 



and within. 

 Branches ... ' Broadly expanded, marginate, black, bursting through, and throwing oflf 



epidermis. 

 Wood ... ... Superficial on decorticated wood, circular, thick, cup shaped, surface 



brown, then blackish. 

 Bark ... ... Thin, circular, sparingly dotted with minute pap-like openings of 



receptacles, black. 

 Branches of Bur- Small, flattened, becoming black, shining. Receptacles crowded, 



Sana spinosa 



Schema Sfer. Ital. I. 197 (1870).— Hypoxylon, Spkxria. 



Trunks 

 Trunks 



oblong, openings point-like. 



Spherical or hemispherical, zoned internally with concentric layers, 



bl.ack or brown. 

 Large, tapering below into thick stem, surface black, varnished. 



Receptacles in many rows, black. 



Champ. I. 168 (1798). — Spbreria, Diatrype, Anthostoma, Nummularia. 



Hemispherical, confluent, blackening. Receptacles nearly globose, 



opening in centre of disc, with rather prominent annulate margin. 

 Quite black, spread out. Receptacles nearly globose, wrinkled, 



opening in centre of depressed disc. 

 Bursting through, somewhat globose, clay coloured, turning black 



within. Receptacles small, ovate, crowded. 

 Stroma in wood turning black and widely spread out, cu-cumference 



variously and often interrupted. 

 Spread out, greyish black, dotted with the prominent openings of the 



receptacles. 

 Bursting through, nearly globose, violet brown or fawn, then brick 



red. Receptacles minute, ovate, crowded. 

 Bursting through, nearly globose or flattfned, thick, dirty brown, 



then black. Receptacles large, globose. 

 Parallel, elliptic, black, openings of receptacles minute, crowded, 



dotted. , ^, , 



Convex, irregularly lobed, yellow brown, mealy ; mouths black, 



prominently punctate. 

 Bursting through, spot-like, hemispherical, purple brown then black. 



Receptacles globose, crowded. 

 Expanded, crustaceous, wrinkled, bright orange red, at length rusty. 



Receptacles thickly crowded. 

 Irregularly spread out, confluent, purplish black. Receptacles immersed 



rather prominent, layer blood red. 



Bark and wood 



Rotten wood 



Trunks ... 



Wood 



Branches 



Branches 



Branches 



Decorticated wood 



Roots and stumps of 



gr.asses 

 Bark 



Wood 



Bark 



