The Lichen:^ of Victoria. 1G9 



nigrescent, ovoid or snb-fusifornii ellipsoid, iiuiseptate, 

 epispore rubescent, cells fascescent, containing each one 

 or two nigrescent locuies, -OOH to -Ol x 'OOS to •004. 

 Hab. on decorticated eucalyptus, Lakes Entrance. 



Genus 3. — Coniocybe, Ach. Nyl. 



Thallus leprose or powdery, eifuse or evanescent. Apo- 

 thecia yellow or pale, not black, stipitate, excipulum very 

 open. Spores usually spherical, colourless or Havescent, 

 forming the globoso pulverulent capitulum. 



1. C. citriocepkala, Wilson. 



Thallus white, thin. Apotliecia minute ; stipe black, 

 slender, 1 mm. high, 06 thick, often less. Capitulum flavo 

 virescent, turbinate, at length globose, to '2 mm. diameter, 

 becoming fuscous and turbinate when stripped of the sporal 

 mass. Spores colourless or dilutely flavid, briefly oblongo 

 ellipsoid or spheroidal, -02 to -04 x 02 to 03 mm. 



Hab. on dead wood and dead bark of trees, Lakes 

 Entrance. 



2. G. oclivocepkala, Wilson. 



Thallus whitish, often with green leprose granules. 

 Apothecia with slender fuscous stipe, "6 to 12 mm. high, 

 •06 to -08 mn). thick, often bifurcate ; capitulum globose, pale 

 ochre, '25 mm. diameter. Spores colourless or dilutely 

 fuscescent, globose, '002 to 'OOy nun. diameter, containing a 

 central locule. 



Hab. on decaying decorticated Aster argyrophyllus, Senecit 

 bedfordii, and eucalyptus, Mt. Macedon and Korumburra. 



3. C. rliodocephala, Wilson. 



Thallus white or whitish or cinerascent or cinereous or 

 evanescent. Apothecia often caspitoso congested ; stipe scarlet 

 or hyaline, at length fuscous or black and pruinose, contorted 

 and compressed, to 2 mm. high, ^2 mm. thick, sometimes 

 furcate or two partly coalescent. Capitulum globose, obscurely 

 rufous or fuscous, at length rose or flesh colour, pruinose, 

 rarely albid, •4 to ^8 mm. diameter. Spores very numerous, 



