BY L. KODWAY. CMC.. 15'7 



Hysterangium membranaceum, Vittadini. Irregularly 

 globose, 1-2 cm., delicate, white, becoming blotched with 

 indigo. Peridium very thin, dry, subtomentose. Gleba 

 white or tinted with indigo, ochraceous with age. Spores 

 ellipsoid, smooth, pale brown, 12 x 6m- 



Not common, but cosmopolitan. 



OCTAVIANA, VITTADINI. 



Peridium cotton j-. Sterile base distinct. Trama byssoid. 

 Canals small contorted. Spores spherical. 



carnea, pink, spores finely echinulate. 

 aiistraliense , brownish, spores verruculose. 

 levispora, pale to light brown, spores glabrous. 



Octaviana australiensc, Berk ct Br. Subglobose, mostly 

 2 cm. diameter, smooth, cream coloured to chestnut-brown, ac- 

 cording to age. Peridium thin, tough. Gleba cream-cclour- 

 ed, then pink-brown, pierced below more or less by arms from 

 the sterile base, canals about 1 mm., very contorted. Spox'es 

 globose, with an irregular surface, or smooth, pale yellow, 

 9-12M. 



When young it will exude white milky fluid when cat. 



Common in Tasmania. Widely spread in Australia. 



Octaviana carnea, Wallr. Irregularly subglobose, 1-3 

 cm., smooth, pale-pink. Peridium thin, papery, or cottony, 

 hardly appreciable. Gleba pink and white, cells very numer- 

 ous and contorted, walls thin, sterile base, well developed. 

 Spores globose, finely echinulate, white, 9-10,«- 



Cosmopolitan. 



Octaviana levispora, nom. nov. Irregularly globose, 2-3 

 cm., white, then gray or very pale brown. Peridium thin 

 floccosc. Sterile base, sometimes well developed, someUmes 

 obsolete. Gleba white, then pale brown, dense, the canals small 

 and tortuous. Spores spherical, pale brown, smooth, 9-10 /n. 

 Peridium much thinner than in Octaviana australiensc, and 

 the canals smaller, but the spores similar. 



Tasman's Peninsula. 



HfDNANGIUM, WALLROTH. 

 Peridium fle.shy or thin, smooth or silky, sterile base 

 absent; cavities minute irregular, or occasionally larger 

 and not contorted. Spores globose or subglobose, seldom 

 smooth. 



