174 Proceedings of tJte Royal Society of Victori'i. 



and dark in age, sub-sessile or stijiitate, stipe to '5 mm. higli 

 and -5 mm. thick, with sometimes two or three capitiila^on 

 one stipe. Spores, eight in cylindrical thecse, acicuhui 

 filiform, about -i-i mm. long, ))luriseptate. 



Hab. on roots and trunks of trees, upon mosses and bark, 

 and jungermannias and lichens ; also on the earth upon 

 dead leaves, &;c., in shady mountain forests, Black Spur, 

 Mt. Macedon, Warragid. 



Genus 2. — B.eomycks, Pers. 



Thallns crustaceous, powdery, granulose or squamulose. 

 Apothocia biatorine, sessile or stipitate. 



]. B. rufii.'i, i). C. 



Thallus albo virescent or albido glaucescent, thin, effuse, 

 minutely granulose or squamulose or leprose, granules 

 depressed (K yellow). Apothecia carneo rufescent or 

 carneo fuscescent, somewhat convex, immarginate, stipe 

 moderate or very short, whitish. Spores, 6 or 8, oblongo 

 ellipsoid, simple. 



B. v. M., Vic. Nat, Oct. 1887, p. 8!). 



2. B. fusco caruca, Wilson. 



Thallus pallid, granuloso verrucose, granules sometimes 

 depressed. Apothecia rufo fuscescent, quasi pruinose, 1 to 

 2 mm. broad, convex, margined by the hypothecium. Stipe 

 white, nude, short (less than 1 mm. high). K. thai, and 

 apoth. yellow, then blood red. Spores ellipsoid, simple. 

 •008 to -01 X 003 to -005 mm. 



Hab. on clay ground, Kilmore. 



3. B. roseu.'i, Pers. 



Thallus whitish, granulose, eti'use or determinate. Apo- 

 thecia roseo carneous, or albo carneous, nearly globose, about 

 2 mm. broad, stipe whiter or nearly white, subterete. Spores 

 six or eight, fusiformi oblong or fusiform, simple, "Oil to '02(1 

 X -0025 to -003 (ISIyl.) Paraphyses slender. 



Hab. on bare earth, chieHv clay. B. v. M., Vic. Nat, 

 Oct. 1887, p. 89. 



(See note on next species.) 



