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(Rostafinski's Synonyms.) 

 Di^jhtherium flavo-fiiscurii, Ehr., Syl., p. 27 (1818). 

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



Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 591. 

 Edicularia testacca, Wallr., Fl. Germ., 209 (1833). 



Lycogala ochraceum, Mass. (n. sp.). 



Plasmodiocarp sessile, sub-globose, gregarious, springing from 

 a firm, hroadly ejpused kypothallus, ochraceous, at first smooth, 

 becoming minutely furfuraceous ; mass of spores very pale 

 ochraceous; capillitium scanty, tubes sparingly branched, with 

 a few indistinctly liaised bands, 5 ix diameter, collapsing ; spores 

 globose, 3' 5 — 4 \x diameter, minutely and sjmrsely vcrrueulosc. 



On rotten wood. Baliia ; 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. 



Lycogala minutum, Sacc. and Paol. 



Plasmodiocarp gregarious, superficial, sessile, base narrow, 

 globoso-depressed, 4 — 5 mm. h^oad, smooth (not punctate), at 

 length with crowded, very minute depressions, yellow, becoming 

 ochraceous ; hypothallus scanty, white, mucedinous ; tubes of 

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

 aspcrulose, 3 ix diameter, yellow, then colourless. 



Lycogala minutum, Saccardo and Paoletti, ' Mycetes Mala- 

 censes' Atti del R. Instit. Veneto 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 Lycogala ochraceum, but distin- 

 guished by the scanty mucedinous hypothallus and in the cortex 

 not becoming furfuraceous. 



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

 Plasmodiocarp hemispherical, gregarious, "5 — 1 cm. diameter, 

 surface smooth, ochraceous or greyish, some times with a tinge 



