OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI— cowiinwei. 



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Habitat. 



General Characters. 



Trichia, Stemonitis, Hemiarcyria, Clathroides, Mucor. 



Stumps ... 



liotten wood, &c. .. 



Leaves of Atheros 



pernium 

 Rotten wood 



Rotten wood 

 Rotten stumps 

 Dead wood 

 Rotten wood 



Gregarious, stalked, ovoid or elongated ovoid. Stem erect, straight! 



long. Spores usually bright grey. 

 Spore sacs ovate. Stem usually short. Spores in mass usually brick 



red, now and then rusty. 

 Threads forming a net-work, spiuy. Spores globose, smooth, iu mass 



sooty brown. 

 Spore sacs egg shaped, with evanescent short erect stem. Spores in 



mass usually flesh colour. 

 Spore sacs cylindrical, with short evanescent stem. Capillitium droop- 

 ing. 

 Spore sacs more or less egg shaped, of beautiful lustre, usually with 



erect stem. 

 Spore sacs usually tufted, collected iu short stem, often of beautiful 



metallic lustre. 

 Vein-like, creeping, forming a net, or somewhat globose, and sessile on 



broad base, yellow. 



ROST. MON. (1875). 



Lycogala, Licea, Lycoperdon. 



Rotten wood, &c. ... 



Rotten wood 



Rotten wood, &e. ... 



Fragments of rotting 



plants 

 Stumps ... 

 Wood 



Spore sacs clustered, circular or elliptical, sessile on broad base, cleai 



yellow. 

 Variable in form, sometimes elongated .and twisted, sometimes veined, 



creeping, bay brown. 

 Spore sacs stalked, or tufted on common stem ; wall smooth, blackish 



or yellowish. 

 Spore sacs crowded, sessile, globose, yellow, nearly the same colour 



within. 

 Spore sacs variously developed, either stalked or sessile. 

 Spore sacs brown or chestnut, shining, passing down into long slendei 



stem. 



ROST. MON. (1875.) 



Moil. 167 (1875). — Physarum. 



B. Bark, leaves, twigs, 

 grass, &c. 



Mucor, Trichia, riiysarum, ChonJriodenna, Spumaria, 



Old Auricularia ... 



Dead leaves, twigs, 

 decaying fruit, &c. 

 Rotten wood 



Dead wood of Eryth- 



rimi vi's/icrtilio 

 Fallen leaves and 



rotten wood 

 Leaves, moss, clover, 



&c. 

 Wood, dead leaves, 



&c. 



Spore sacs sessile, roundish, deformed ; outer wall crustaceous, chalky 



white. 

 Spore sacs discoid, curved upwards, snow white, stalked. Stem straight, 



rigid, with rusty-brown furrows. 



Spore sacs globose or slightly compressed, covered with dense white 



layer of lime. 

 Spore sacs hemispherical or a little flattened, greyish white with lime, 



or black and shining. 

 Fructification hemispherical, violet or lilac. Stem elongated, slender, 



yellowish tan or copper colour. 

 Fructification somewhat nodding, ashy white, arising from mealy crusty 



cracking membrane. 

 Fructification either cushion-like, flattened, or vein-like, creeping. 



Spore sacs irregular in shape, snow white or greyish, always in clusters. 



Spore sacs either hemispherical and flattened or globose. Stem snow 

 white. 



Syn. 162 (1808).— Eeticularia. 



22431 ... I ... 1 ... I V. I N.S.W. I Q. I B. 1 Grass 



iEthalium complex, branching, whitish to grey, spongy. 



