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contextum Pers. Near Adelaide, S. Be on dead leaves. 
The orange sporangia are both clustered and fr 
P. lateritiwm (Berk. & Rav.) Morg. Au akin: N. Z., on dead 
wood. Thes eget are scattered, brick-red and either smooth 
or scaly; the capillitium knots are yellowi sh with red centres. 
Cienkowskia reticulata (Alb. & Schw.) Rost. Rotorua, N. Z., 
on dead wood. The red net-like jeanne: are small but 
typi 
pical. 
Craterium minutwm (Leers.) Fries. Adelaide, S. A., and Mel- 
bourne 
Leocarpus fragilis (Dicks.) Rost. Sydney and Moruya, N.S. W. 
This species is rare in the tropics, and abundant in the Northern 
Hemisphere. This is the second record that I know of from the 
Southern mn Hemisphere 
a effusum (Schwei n.) Morg. Moruya, N.S. W., on bark. 
An extensive ot mouldy vaste ait of net-like plasmodioearps. 
D. radiatum (L.) Lis Moruya, N. 8S. W., on bark and 
. Rénn’s specimen : 
Diachea leucopoda (Bull.) Rost. National Park, Sydney, on 
déad leaves 
; Didymium difforme (Pers.) Duby. Moruya, N. 8. W., on dead 
eavi 
squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fries. Adelaide, 8. A. ; 
Melbourne, V.; Sydney, N.S. W.; Brisbane, Q., on dead leaves. 
olloderma oculatum (Lippert) G. Lister. Mo oruya, 
on fh bark of dead Iron-wood (Hucalyptus sideroaylon). “A fine 
oe of glossy brown plasmodiocarps, some of wach were 
ured indoors from inky-grey plasmodium ; the outer sporan- 
eee -wall swells up when moist to form a thick ‘dilioits coat ; 
the capillitium is unusually slender and sparingly branched ; the 
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' spores measure 15 p, and are rnin rougher and darker than those 
of any other gathering that I have seen. It is curious that this 
Stemonii ate rae Mamaku, N. Z. 
S. splendens Rost. Enoggara, Q.; Rotorua,N. Z. The New 
Zeal gathering is a grand development, ; closely —— 
sporangia covering an area of several square inches. 
Webbert Rex. National Park for N. S. W., Sydney, on a pin 
stump. This specimen has such lax capillitium that it eoptoaihes 
var. flaccida Lister. 
Comatricha nigra (Pers.) Schroet. Adelaide, S. A.; rape 
N.S. W. Scanty ns with globose sporangia. —Var. alta 
Lister. Rotorua, N. 
JOURNAL OF Sine: —Vot. 53. (Joy, 1915.] R 
