114 NOTES AND ADDITIONS TO THE FUNCxUS FLORA, 



H Ulnar ia hovina, Sarr. Concave to jolane wav3> 

 soft-fleshy, umber, with a dull greenish tint, smooth 

 5-10 mm. Spores oblong smooth 19-22 x 9-11 ^. 



On cowdung, together with Lachnea stercorea. 

 AiiCohoJoH f urfuraceus, etc. 



Da«y^cijp]ta tacalyiiti, JierJi., is much more variable 

 than indicated in Cookes Handbook. It grows on all 

 sorts of dead twigs and leaves, sometimes attains 4 mm. 

 diameter, the disk is livid when fresh, deep orange 

 when dry. Spores 16-24 x 4.5-8 ^. 



OrhUia cj-ystalina, ii.s. Globose, waxy, gre- 

 garious, orange, 1-2 mm. diameter, surface crystalline, 

 with large, prominent, pellucid cells. Hymcnium at 

 first covered with a crystalline membrane; as the 

 hymenium expands the membrane bursts in the middle, 

 and remains as a toothed margin; hymenium expands 

 till it is broad, flat, to convex. Asci cylindric-clavate 

 y fj- diameter. Paraphyses few, filiform, yellow^ 



2.0 fj.. Spores uniseriate, hyaline, smooth, elliptic 

 with acute ends, 18 x 7 ,a. The broad sjiores readily 

 distinguish it. 



Cascade estate, Hobart. 



S [)r(i(jueo](i iinicidd, ii.-s Ascoplioi'e sessile, subglo- 

 bose, vaguely nodulose, about 5 mm. diameter, subter- 

 ranean, growing on buried wood, white. Hymenium 

 covering the entire surface. Asci cylindric. Spores 8,. 

 globose, coarsely echinulate, 18 ^t. diameter, uniseri- 

 ate, paraphyses greatly exceeding the asci, filiform at- 

 tenuate at apex, immersed in dense jelly. At maturity 

 the jelly increases to 1-2 cm., carrying paraphyses 

 and asci with it. 



Underground. jNU. Nelson Range. 



The genus is founded upon one rare American 

 species — ^"only two specimens are known; these are in 

 "the Kew Herbarium" (Massee). Our plant differs from 

 the type in having globose instead of elliptical spores 

 and the development of jelly is unique. The sessile 

 habit of the genus is not common amongst ficoglossea', 

 but the reduction of hypothecium and total absence of 

 oxcipulum indicates its relation. The round spores 

 suggest yeiihrfd, but habit and copious paraphyses are 

 against it. 



Ctnunuiiuiii fiirfiinicriini, T)( Xot. CVspitose and 

 erumpent from a common base, cver3'where black. As- 

 cophores about 5 mm. high and broad, cupshaped but 

 iiuich distorted from mutual pressure, tough, externally 



