- about 14 p thick ; spores oblong, fusoid ; subacute and unequa 
 Ceraceous, stipitate, white outside, shortly hairy, hairs c 
ES Boer bat horny or cartilaginous.— Cooke, 1n 
5 
ITHYPHALLUS, Fries. 
I. atrominiatus, Bul. (the stem a dark vermilion colour), 
with Plate. Plant attaining the height of 5 to 6 in., stem of a dark 
vermilion, lacunose and hollow, slightly tapering from about the 
middle into the cap.  Pileus about 1 in. long, narrow-conical, thin 
and closely fitting the stem, but except at the top free from it, some- 
times pervious, sometimes closed at the apex, quite smooth when 
fresh, sporiferous pulp dark-olive. Volva about 1} in. long, rather 
narrow, white like the mycelium 
Hab.: Toowong, on rich garden soil.—Mrs. J. F. Batiey. 
ASCOMYCETE. 
: _ Fruit consisting of sporidia, mostly definite, contained in asci, 
pringing from a naked or enclosed stratum of fructifying cells, and 
ening an hymenium or nucleus.—Ovoke, in Handb. Austr. Fungi 
PEZIZEX. 
Cup-shaped or dise-shaped, rarely inflated; stipitate or sessile; 
i ke lc. 252. 
exeipulum fleshy, or rather coriaceous, or waxy.—Cooke !. 
; HELOTIUM, Fries. 
H. Kuranda, P. Henn. Hedw. xiii. 85. Cups membranaceous, 
Ipitate, orange-coloured, coneave-discoid, smooth, about 14- 
7 diam., stipes subclavate, concolorous, fuscus at the base, about 
. mm. long, disk nearly flat, orange; asci clavate, apex obtuse rotun- 
te, 8-spored, 120-160 x 10-12 jp, paraphyses hyaline, cheba 
llysi 
at both ends, eguttulate, 20-24 x-4-5 p.—P. Hennings Le. 
Hab.: Kuranda.—Z£. Pritzel. 
ERINELLA, Sace. 
h Caps stipitate or sessile, villose, waxy, minute; sporidia filiform, 
yaline.—Cooke, in Handb. Austr. Fungi 267. 
E. Pritzeliana, ?. Henn. Hedw. xiii. 86. Cups membranaceous- 
urved, 10- 
ae 34 p, yellowish, disk pale yellow 06-08 p; stipes terete, 
out 03-05 x O'l x; asci cylindric-clavate, apex obtuse, 8-spored, 
‘ 5-7 p, paraphyses filiform, septate, guttulate, 
bores conglobate, filiform, flexuose, obtuse at both ends, p 
or obsoletely septate, 40-60 x 0°5-0°6 p.—P. Hennings 
Hab.: Russell River.—£. Pritzel. 
BULGARIE. 
Cups top-shaped, cup-shaped, or discoid, 
2 p thick; 
luriguttulate 
gelatinous, becoming 
Handb. Austr. Fungi 
