EXOTIC FUNGI. 
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Helotium pseudo- ciliatum, Phillips. 
Scattered. Cups 1-2 mm. broad, sessile, or substipitate, con- 
cave, reddish flesh colour, margin fringed with hair-like scales ; 
asci cylindrically-clavate, 8-spored. Sporidia oblong-fusiform 
or clavate, sometimes bent, '02-'025 X '005-'006 mm., paraphyses 
filiform, slender. 
On rotten wood. New Zealand ( Golenso , 100, 380). 
Helotium sordidum, Phillips. 
Scattered. Cups 1-3 mm. broad, stipitate, concave, becoming 
plane, dirty brown, margin slightly paler, entire; stem stout, 
pallid, white and tomentose at the base ; asci cylindrical, 8- 
spored. Sporidia elliptic, '007-'009 x '003- - 004 mm., paraphyses 
not seen. 
Under rotten wood. New Zealand ( Golenso , 313). 
Allied to H. fibuliforme, Fr., but differs in the size and shape 
of the sporidia. 
Peziza (Dasy) nephrodigena, Phillips. 
Crowded or scattered, sessile, globose, then hemispherical, at 
first clothed with a slender pubescence, then glabrous, white, 
waxy, firm, ‘02-'04 mm. diam. ; hymenium concave, nut-brown, 
margin indexed ; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong-fusiform, rounded 
at the ends, three septate, constricted at the septa, '012-'015 X 
•004-'005 mm., paraphyses not seen. 
On fading fronds of Nephr odium hispidum. New Zealand 
(Kirk ). . 
Monilia carbonaria, Cooke. 
Csespitulis compactis, pulvinatis, ellipticis, vel confluendo 
difformibus, aurantiacis, vel aurantio’-rubris (1 mm. ad 1 cm. 
diam.), hyphis repentibus, intricatis, septatis, dissilientibus, 
vage ramosis, conidiis globoso-ovalibus, primo concatenatis, 
dein liberis, laevibus, hyalinis, rubro-tinctis (8-12 p diam.). 
On burnt wood and stems. New Zealand (Kirk, 282). 
Dimerosporium excelsum, Cooke. 
Maculas radiantes, atras, orbiculatas, crustaceos in foliorum 
pag. inf. formans. Peritheciis subglobosis, membranaceo- car- 
bonaceis (15 mm. diam.), in centro congestis. Ascis clavatis, 
sessilibus, basi angustato, octosporis. Sporidiis ellipticis, uni- 
septatis, medio leniter constrictis, utrinque rotundatis, hyalinis 
(12 x 4 p). 
On dead leaves of Knightia excelsa. New Zealand ( Golenso , 
213). 
Phoma australis, Cooke. 
Epiphylla, maculis fuscis, ellipticis, brunneo- cinctis, demum 
confluentibus. Peritheciis atris, punctiformibus, semi-immersis. 
Sporulis elongato-ellipticis, hyalinis, granulosis ( - 026- , 03 x '006 
mm.) pedicellis brevibus. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus, Melbourne, No. 8, 12. (H. Watts). 
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