JgQ TASMANIAN ITYMKNOOASTRACEiB. 



Hydnanginm microsporium, Rod. Globose, white to pale 

 ochre. Peridium rather thick and toujrh. Gleba dense, 

 orange to i-aw sienna ; cavities round about 0.5 mm. diameter, 

 not contorted, full of spores. Spores hyaline, globose, armed 

 with short spines or warts, 5-6,". diameter. 



]\It. Nelson. 



Hydiiauf/ium doistivi, Rod. Globose, 5-8 mm., ochra- 

 ceous. Peridium 0.5 mm., thick, leathery. Gleba marbled 

 with black from the spore masses; trama white. Canals 

 round, not convoluted, 0.3 mm. diameter, densely packed with 

 spores, black. Spores globose, brown, minutely echinulate. 

 l'2n. diameter. 



Mt. Nelson. 



In one specimen the base had few small canals, tnving 

 the appearance of a sterile base. 



GYMNOMYCES, MASS. ET ROD. 



Peridium none or rudimenta)y. Gleba fleshy; hyiaenial 

 spaces numerous, not much contorttd, trama thin. Sterile 

 base absent, except in a few isolated tubers. Spores hyaline, 

 globose, rough or echinulate. 



pallidus, white, spores verruculose, 

 sevii)nidi(f!, white, spore? echinulate. 

 flams, yellow, spores echinulate. 



Gymnoniffrcs pallidu.'>, Mas!>. ct Rod. Subglobose, 2-3 

 cm. diameter, white, becoming light ochre when old. Per'dium 

 obsolete. Gleba dense, fragile white, canals small, very con- 

 torted, tramal plates white, very thin. Spores globose, 

 hyaline, verruculose, 9-10m diameter. 



Cascades, Hobart. 



(ilfmnomiiceH Hcvuimditu, MasH. ct Rod. Globose, white, 

 then tinted with ochre, 2-4 cm. Peridium very thin, con- 

 tinuous with the trama. Gleba white, tougher than in G. 

 pnlliduit, canals minute, very contorted, irregular, tramal 

 plates white, rather firm. Spores hyaline, globose, stiorgly 

 echinulate, 11-12m- diameter. 



Cascades, Hobart. 



