Massee. — The Fungus Flora of Neio Zealand. 45 



Guepinia pezizcBformis, Berk., in Hook. Journ., 1845, p. 60 ; 



Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 614 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8518 ; Cooke, 



Austr. Fung., p. 210, fig. 96. 



Bright orange-red, cartilaginous and elastic when moist, 

 pileus obliquely saucer-shaped or almost flat, stem very short, 

 minutely velvety, 3-4 mm. broad ; hymenium slightly corru- 

 gated or wrinkled ; spores elliptical, hyaline. 



On dead wood. Bay of Islands, Northern Island, New Zea- 

 land. Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia. 



Usually more or less fan-shaped ; rigid and contracted when 

 dry. Growing solitary or scattered. 



66. Calocera, Fries. 



Cartilaginous, viscid, rigid and horny when dry, vertical, simple 

 or branched ; branches terete, often forked at the tips. 

 Calocera, Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 485. 



Eesembling the branched forms of Clavaria in habit and 

 general appearance ; differing in the cartilaginous structure and 

 form of the basidia. Growing on wood. The spores are sau- 

 sage-shaped and curved, becoming septate on germination and 

 producing clusters of elliptical sporidiola. 



Calocera viscosa, Fries., Syst. Myc, i, p. 486 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, 



no. 8147. 



Irregularly branched, all branches of about uniform diameter, 

 2-3 mm., 3-7 cm. long, deep-orange, viscid, smooth and polished, 

 very tough when growing, rigid and horny when dry, rooting 

 base 3-5 cm. long, tough; spores cylindric- oblong, apiculate, 

 slightly curved, 9-10 x 4-5 /x, hyaline. 



On decaying stumps of pines, &c. New Zealand. Malacca, 

 Europe, United States. 



Superficially resembling a branched Clavaria, but differing 

 in the tough consistency and different basidia. 



Calocera stricta, Fries, Epicr., p. 581 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8163 ; 



Austr. Fung., p. 204. 



Simple, solitary or gregarious but not crowded and con- 

 fluent, linear, erect, apex subacute, 1-2 cm. high, 2 mm. thick, 

 orange-yellow, tough when moist, rigid and remaining even when 

 dry, orange or yellow, base with white down ; spores elliptical, 

 7-8 X 5-6 /x. 



On dead wood, especially of conifers. New Zealand. Victoria, 

 Ceylon, Europe, United States, Cuba. 



Distinguished from the closely allied Calocera striata in being 

 firmer in structure, and hence not shrinking and becoming 

 striate or wrinkled when drv. 



