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FUNGI OF AUSTRALIA. 
dentibus, nec ligulatis diversum. Pileus subsessilis, orbicularis, 
vel semi-orbicularis, horizontalis, in basim stipitiformem contractus 
(1-2 cm. longus latusque), postice rugulosus subtomentosus, rufo- 
fuscus. Lamella} latiusculse, dentatas, pallidiores. 
Richmond River. (Mueller.) 
Not comparable with L. vulpinus , Fr. 
Xerotus papuasius, Kalchb. 
Subcasspitosus, glaber, alutaceo-ochraceus. Pileo membranaceo- 
coriaceo, convexo, vertice profunde depresso, margine deflexo, 
radiatim sulcato ; stipite e farcto fistuloso, deorsum leviter incras- 
sato, albo pulverulento ; lamellis adnato-decurrentibus, strictis, vix 
ramosis, integris. 
In corticis. Richmond River. (M. Hodgkinson.) 
Pileus i-1 in. broad, stein 1-2 in. high, 1-2 lines thick. Allied 
to X. Bawnaensis, P. and X, caribceus , Plum. 
Lenzites torrida, Kalchb. 
Tota alba. Pileus compactus, lignosus, dimidiatus, umbonato- 
sessilis, concentrice sulcatus, margine obtusus, subtiliter tomentosus. 
Lamellas rigidas, distantes, dichotomas, et anastomosantes, acie 
obtusae, crenulatas, vel singulari modo scruposae. 
On wood. Richmond River. (Miieller.) 
Pileus 2-2^ in. broad, ^ in. and more thick. 
DACRYMYCES SUCCINEUS, Fr., THE EARLY STAGE 
OF A PEZ1ZA. 
By W. Phillips, F.L.S. 
Fries placed Dacrymyces succineus in the first instance amongst 
the Discomycetes as Calloria succineus in his Summa Vegetabilium 
Scandinaviae (p.359), and adds after his description, “ Structuream 
B.fusarioides, Berk, exhibit,” but in his Hymenomycetes Europaei 
he removes it to Dacrymyces . Herr Fuckel, in his Symbolae 
Mycologicae (p. 282), says that he found frequently associated 
with this translucid amber Dacrymyces, similar ones in form of 
little cups, containing threads filled with globules, which he 
suspected might be unripe asci. He was not able to distinguish the 
structure satisfactorily, but he evidently suspected an ascigerous 
condition of the Dacrymyces. The Rev. J. Keith sent me speci- 
mens of the Dacrymyces from Forres, some time since, which con- 
tained the characteristic cylindrical spores only ; last year, how- 
ever, my friend, Mr. C. B. Plowright, while botanising with some 
of the members of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, in the 
productive woods near Forres in the autumn, found on the decay- 
ing pine leaves the most perfect form mentioned by Fuckel in 
which the sporidia are fully developed. There can hardly be a 
doubt, on examining the progressive forms associated together on 
the same pine branch, that the Dacrymyces passes into the Peziza. 
It is as obvious an instance of dimorphism as that of Dacrymyces 
