110 BOTANICAL NOTES, 



Gymnomyces fJavus, n.s. — Subglobose but very irregu- 

 lar in shape and size, mostly about 5-10 mm. diameter, dull 

 canary yellow when fresh, ochraceous when dry. INlo 

 peridium, the siirface floccose and pitted with sterile con- 

 tinuations of the hymenial canals. Canals numerous, 

 broad, contorted, trama fleshy, yellow, walls thin. Spores 

 spherical, hyaline covered with short broad spines, 10-11 

 IX. diameter. 



Wedge Bay. 



Those interested in the underground fungi in this may 

 refer to my paper on Hyinenogastracece in the Papers and 

 Proceedings, 1911. 



PULVINARIA, N.G. 



stroma globose, erumpent mostly 3-5 convoluted, 

 woody. Perithecia completely immersed dehiscing by a 

 minute pore. Spores linear, hyaline, smooth. 



The genus "differs from Cytoapnra in habit, from 

 DotJiiorella in spores, and from both in the nature of the 

 stroma." — E. M. Wakefield, Kew. 



Pidvinaria fypica, n.x. — Gregarious, black, stroma 1-2 

 mm. diameter. Spores 5 x 0.3 ^. 



Common o^n capsules and cpercula of Eucalyptus 

 glohulus. 



Mesembryanthemum ceqii'ilaferah' is very commonly at- 

 tached by a Gystopus. The oospores have not yet been 

 found, but it isi referred to in a note fro(m Kew: — "Very 

 near G. austro-africanu^, Syd., but with larger conidia." 



The two following Lichens have been determined by 

 the Kew authority : — 



Galicium tracheUnum, Arch. — Thin, white, granulose. 

 Apothecia minute, black, on a slender stalk, about 1 mm. 

 high. Spores sooty bhick, ellipsoid, 1 septate, constricted 

 obtuse, sometimes continuo'us, 6.6 x 3.3 /* 



On stem of dead Richea pandani folia. 



Mt. Styx. 



Lichina alpina, n.ft. — Brownish-black, densely caespi- 

 tose, terete and copio'usly branched, gelatinous when fresh, 

 brittle when dry. Apothecia terminal, globose, little 

 broader than the stem about 0.3 mm. diameter; spores 

 elliptic, smooth, 7-8 ^ long. Alga apparently an Anahcena. 



In running water and on rocks at Cradle Mountain, 

 3,500 feet, approximately. 



