156 ADDITIONS TO THE FUNGUS FLORA OF TASMANIA, 



Dasyscypha ovina,, n.s. Superficial to partially 

 erumpent, sessile, eupshaped, exciple exceeding the disk, 

 externally coarsely woolly with a dense vestiture of glo- 

 bose cells, dull ochre brown, l-2mm. diameter; asci cylin- 

 drie, spores 8, uniseriate, broadly elliptic, obtuse, smooth, 

 brown at maturity, 14 x 8 m ■> paraphyses slender with 

 clavate olive tips. 



On dead bark. 



Humarui omphalodes, Mass. Minute disks lmm. dia- 

 meter, orange to reddish, arising from a spreading subicu- 

 lum on burnt ground ; spores elliptic, 11-13 x 6 m. 



On Domain. 



Genangella tasmanica, n.s. Erumpent, cartilagin- 

 ous, sessile, concavo-convex, smooth, black; asci cylindric, 

 8 spores in one series ; spores elliptic, subacute, uniseptat'j. 

 smooth, wall thick, light purple when mature 10-12 x 5 

 ^ paraphyses filiform, mostly branched above. 



On dead wood. 



Patellaria masseea : n.s. Gregarious, sessile, concave 

 then plane, dark green becoming black when dry, 1-2 mm- 

 broad. Asci clavate, base little constricted, 8 spored, 

 staining blue with iodine, 150 x 10 M . Spores in two 



series, oblongo-elliptic, 3-6, often 5, septate, hyaline, 

 18-22' x 5 ju- Paraphyses filiform, ramose, apex thick- 

 ened. 



Allied to P. tasmanica, Berk., but distinguished by 

 the larger size of the ascophore, also by the larger septate 

 spores," The hypothecium and excipulum consist of 

 slender interwoven hyphse. 



On dead branches of Acacia verniciflua. 



The above is the description of the plant by the late 

 Mr Masses in Kew Bulletin No. 138, under the name of 

 Patellaria maura, n.s. Unfortunately this name was. 

 already applied by Phillips to a European plant. 



Tremella mesenterica, Betz. Toughly gelatinous, lobes 

 short and contorted, surface pruinose with white spores. 



Very common, but not recorded for Tasmania, Much 

 tougher and darker than in T. lutescens. 



Auricidaria mesenterica, Fries. Waxy when fresh 

 resupinate on under surface of fallen wood, nearly black 

 to greyish-brown, margin reflexed, velvety. 



Fairly common. 



