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Solitary. Pileus dark green, rather nay, minutely squamu- 
lose. Allied to Leptonia lampropoda, Fries, and L. serrulata, 
Pers. but differing from both in the dark green colour of the 
pileus and stem 
Nidularia fasismi Massee (sp. nov.). Peridia "d haud 
confluentia, alba, tuberculosa, nudo oculo glabra uissima, 
taudem undique disr rupta et evanescentia. ia nume- 
rosa, discoidea, muco copioso involuta, flavo-brunnea, 
Spore ee ee ile oe acute, hyaline, 9-12 x 4-45 p. 
(0) d, gully off Huon Road, Rodway, 345. 
A anes tends wi mm. in diameter ; peridium very delicate, 
silvery-white, evanescent. It belongs to the section Sorosia of 
Tulasne, characterized by the presence of filaments mixed with 
the Miss The four known species are imperfectly described ; 
m one instance is any mention made of = —— hence the 
inen affinity of the present species is uncerta 
ASCOMYCETES. 
Gymnomyces, Mass. et Rodw. (gen. nov.). sakes haud dis 
tinetum vel nullum. Gleba carnosa, ad n fertilis, ditus 
intusque Saito, cellulis cavis ubique atiati septa haud 
scissilia. Basidia plerumque 2-spora. Spore globose, hyalinæ, 
ETEF vel verrucosæ. 
rs from Gautieria in the hyaline, globose speres. Some 
T aa of Octaviania, in which the peridium is very delicate, bear 
some resemblance to the species included in the present genus, 
but are E To: by the well develdpal: sterile base and the 
tinted spor 
Gymnomyoss pem ost. et Rodw. (sp. nov.). Gleba globosa, 
irregularis, initio albida, dein sordida, cellulis m majusculis irregu- 
laribus s sordide albidis: P tenuia, albida, nec scissilia. Spore 
glo 9-10 iam., hyaline, verruculosm sepe brevissime 
saatii in aaile basidio tus sterigmatibus "brevibus suffultie. — — 
nderground, Rodway, 299. pv 
Irregularly spherical, 94 cm. in MOI very fragile, no distinet 
ridium. Sterile base obsolete, but one ve cimen growing 
into a slender stem emerging from an du billcua 
Gymnomyces seminudus, Mass. et Rodw. ap nov.) Gleba 
globosa, albida, extus laxe tomentosa, 1:5-2:5 cm. lata, str 
rassi 
albida, nec scissilia. Basidia subclavata, 2-sterigmatica. . Spore 
Sphæricæ, 11-12 » diam., creberrime echinatæ, hyaline. 
from those 
peridium is slight. Distinguished from G. pallidus, Mass. & 
Rodw., by the larger, strongly and densely echinulate spores. _ 
Genabea tasmanica, Mass. et Rodi. (sp. nov). Peridium : jab 
globosum, tuberculosum rit anfractuosum, absque basi —— 
propria eortice cinis bad ranulatum vel rugulosum brunneum. — 
Gleba pallida, pag n sparsim —— nigro-punctata. — 
