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(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 



Diphtherium fiavo-fuscum, Ehr., SyL, p. 27 (1818). 

 Eeticidaria flavo-fusca, Fr., S. M., iii., p. 88 (1829) ; B. and Br., 



Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 591. 

 Reticu'aria testacea, Wallr., Fl. Germ., 209 (1833). 



Lycogaia qchraceum, Mass. (n. sp.). 



Plasmodiocarp sessile, sub-globose, gregarious, springing from 

 a firm, broadly effused hypothallus, ochraceous, at first smooth, 

 becoming minutely furfuraceous ; mass of spores very pale 

 ochraceous; capillitium scanty, tubes sparingly branched, with 

 a few indistinctly raised band,s, 5 jj. diameter, collapsing ; spores 

 globose, 3'5 4 ^diameter, minutely and sparsely verruculose. 



On rotten wood. Bahia ; Java. (Challenger exped.) 

 (Type in Herb. Berk., Kew.) 



Often densely gregarious and variously angular from mutual 

 pressure, at other times larger and scattered ; from "5 2'5 cm. 

 diameter. 



Lycogaia minutum, Sacc. and Paol. 



Plasmodiocarp gregarious, superficial, sessile, base narrow, 

 globoso-depressed, 4 5 mm. broad, smooth (not punctate), at 

 length with crowded, very minute depressions, yellow, becoming 

 ochraceous; hypothallus scanty, white, mucedinous; tubes of 

 capillitium filiform, short, sulsimple, hyaline; spores globose, 

 aspcndosc, 3 p diameter, yellow, then colourless. 



Lycogaia minutum, Saccardo* and Paoletti, ' Mycetes Mala- 

 censes' Atti del R. Instit. Verieto di scienze, lettere, ed arti. 

 Tome VI., Ser. VI., p. 5, t, 5, f. 1 ; Sacc., Syll., n. 1486. 



On fallen decorticated rotten branches. Malacca. 



Apparently closely allied to Lycogaia ochraceum, but distin- 

 guished by the scanty mucedinous hypothallus and in the cortex 

 not becoming furfuraceous. 



Lycogaia rufo-cinnamomeum, Mass. (n. sp.). 



Plasmodiocarp hemispherical, gregarious, '5 1 cm. diameter, 

 surface smooth, ochraceous or greyish, sometimes with a tinge 



