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Calypogeia RaddL 



Stems weak, simple, or with few branches proceeding 

 from the axils of the underleaves. Leaves incubous, 

 oblong, or ovate, apex entire obtuse or acute, rarely biden- 

 tate, margins entire. Underleaves rotund to reniform, 

 apex usually bifid. The productive organs on very short 

 branches arising from the axils of the underleaves. Sporo- 

 phyte inserted in a descending fleshy marsupium. 



The genus comes next in our flora to Bazzanai (Masti- 

 gobryum), but differs not only in the insertion of the 

 sporophyte, but also in the shape and structure of the 

 leaves. 



Calypogeia tasmanica, Spec. nov. Slender, in loose 

 mats, stems often 3-5 cm. long, with few, irregular, ventral 

 branches. Leaves not crowded, but little overlapping, 

 rotundo-ovate, apex entire, or ocasionally bilobed near 

 the apex, 1 mm. long; cells hexagonal, walls rather thin, 

 trigones none, 30-45^. Underleaves free, sub-rotund, bifid 

 or trifid, divided to the middle, lobes obtuse, half as long 

 as the leaves. Specimen sterile. 



Adamson Peak. 



FUNGI. 

 Geoglossum hirsutum, Vers. Erect, clavate, black, 3-6 

 cm., high, densely velvety all over, upper half rather flat- 

 tened and broader than the stipes, ascigerous. Asci clavate, 

 spores 8, linear ends slightly narrowed, 7-15 septate, 110- 

 150 x 5-6^., light brown, paraphyses slender, septate, tips 

 brown. 



On tree-fern slopes of Mt. Wellington. Cosmopolitan. 



Mitrula olivacea, Sacc. Dingy green, 3-4 cm. high, 

 slender terete or flattened in the fertile portion, smooth. 

 Asci narrow clavate. Spores 8, obliquely elliptic, with 

 rounded ends, 14 x 6 M ., colourless, smooth, not septate. 



Gully near mouth of the Huon. Also Europe. 



