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leafy, infundibuhform apothecia. Apothecia with proper 

 and tballine margin. Spores 8, spherical or oval, 1-seriate ; 

 paraphyses straight, capillary, [septate, adglutinate, apices 

 not dilated. 



hyalinum, Nyl. (K + C — ) 

 Thallus leprose or scaly, white or pale yellow-green. Podetia 

 ^-in. rising in fungoid (agaric) masses, shortly stipitate, 

 scyphi broadly funnel-shaped, thin in substance, somewhat 

 flattened from above ; disk pale flesh-coloured, thalline 

 margin pale and almost entire ; stipes compressed, some- 

 what hyaline, with scattered opaque points. Spores 8, 

 simple, ovate, •0017x'001 m.m. 



Hab. — On stumps, Dunwich, Stradbrooke 1 ; on burnt 

 logs, Mt. Perry. 



IE. — Cladoxia. 



Thallus leafy or squarnaceo-foliolose at the base ; podetia, 

 with a cortex partially split up and powdery, often more or 

 less furnished with scyphi. 



* Pha^ocarpa 3 — Apothecia fuscous or pale (Macrophyllinse). 



C. gracilis, Ach. (K — C — ) 

 Thallus cartilaginous, aphyllous or squamulose, ashy 

 glaucous or pale brownish -green. Scyphiphorous vertical 

 n. podetia elongate-tuba^form : scyphi regular, very proliferous. 

 Cylindrical podetia etiolated, simple or digitally ramose, 

 subulate or beaked. Apothecia sessile or st alked, reddish- 

 brown : spores oblong. 



. C. fimbriata, Del (K — C — ) 



Thallus of pale green flabellulate scales, 2 — 2*5 m.m., with 

 l-;5 seldom more terminal laciniaj; from these rise cylindrical, 

 pale, or whitish podetia, membra naceous-eort.cate, alto- 

 gether powdery from deliquescence' of the cortex ; podetia 

 sometimes scaly, usually simple., or sparingly ramose, 

 scyphiphorous ; scyphi smaller anAl narrowor than those of 

 C. pyxidata. Pycnidia as small; black papilla) ; stylospores 



