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Lesliei belongs to the first division, and we characterise it by the following 
description : 
TuLosTOMA Lesliei, n. sp. (Fig. 1.) 
Plants terrestrial, stalked ; peridium globose, white, 7-9 mm. diam. ; 
exoperidium adhering at base of peridium ; mouths definite, tubular, round, 
protruding ; capillitium branched, hyaline, septate, nodulose at septa ; spores 
in mass cinnamon colour, globose, smooth, 3*5-4 /a diam. ; stalk l'5-2"5cm. 
long X 1-1-5 mm. diam., inserted into a depression at base of peridium, 
longitudinally striate, hollow with a central fibril. 
Hahit. — Found growing in sandy soil at Durban by the writer. (Type 
in Natal Herbarium, P. v. d. B., No. 690.) 
