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comparatively thin (f-f inch), covered with a hard crust. Sub- 
stance very thin and floccose, together with the elongated, stratose 
tubes, wood-coloured, pores very minute, round, regular punctiform, 
scarcely visible. Hymenium concave, pale ochraceous ; margin 
thin, incurved, flexuous, sterile. 
On trunks. Johnstone River, Queensland. 
Allied to F. sulcatus , Cooke. 
* Hydnum (Carnosi) crocidens, Coolce. 
Mesopod. Pileus fleshy, thin, plane, rather umbilicate, smooth, 
even (1-lf in. diam.), ochraceous yellow ; stem central, slender, 
equal, even, or longitudinally striate, when dry, smooth, of the 
same colour as the pileus (If in. long, 2-3 m.m. thick). Spines 
rather long, aculeate, reaching the stem, but scarcely decurrent, 
shorter towards the margin, flexible, golden yellow ; spores subglo- 
bose, 4-5 p. 
On the ground. Port Phillip. 
Scleroderma umbrina, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Stipitate, peridium globose (2f-3 c.m. diam.), coarsely rugulose 
below (when dry), very thin, fragile, and perfectly glabrous above, 
breaking away irregularly, dirty pale ochre, darkest below ; stem 
equal (2f c.m. long, f c.m. or more thick), coarsely and irregularly 
furrowed (when dry), dark brown, passing downwards into a dense 
bulbose mass of intricate mycelium ; mass of gleba dark umber- 
brown ; spores globose echinulate, brown, 10 p diam. ; dissepiments 
almost obsolete at maturity. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
Dothidea (Bagnisiella) rugulosa, Cooke. 
Epiphyllous, or hypophyllous, gregarious, globose, black, rugulose 
(f-f m.m.), cells peripherical, minute ; asci oblong, eight spored ; 
sporidia cylindrically elliptical, hyaline, 22-25 x 4 p. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Melbourne. ( Martin 203.) 
*Xsaxia suffruticosa, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Subcaespitose, white, 3 c.m. high ; stem distinct, simple, smooth 
or slightly farinose, upwards branched and divided ; branches 
slender, interwoven, with lateral branchlets up to the acute tips ; 
ultimate threads bearing the conidia singly at the apex of short 
sterigmata, minute, narrowly ellipsoid, 4-5 x If p. 
On hairy caterpillar. New England, Australia. (A. R. Craw- 
ford.) 
Strumella sacchari, Cooke. 
Pustules gregarious, erumpent, black, patelloid or subclavate, 
with a short stem-like base, or cylindrical-multiform (f m.m. diam.) 
hyphse short, hyaline, simple ; conidia cylindrically elliptical, con- 
tinuous, pale fuscous, 10-12 x 3 p. 
On sugar cane. Queensland. {Bailey 871.) 
Agaricus (Mycena) flavovirens, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pileus membranaceous, obtusely campanulate (f to 1 c.m. broad 
and high), yellowish green, faintly striate when moist, smooth, 
