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THE LARGER FUNGI 
HYPOLYSSUS Berk. 
(Gr., hypo, under; lyo, lyso, to loocen.) 
‘ ‘ Reecj)tacle stalked, almost bowl-sliaped, the interior solid, corky. Ilvmenium 
inferior, smooth, shining. ’ ’ — Killermann. 
Xo Australian specie.s recorded. 
2. Hymenium seated, directly on the mycelium. 
EPITHELE Pat. 
(Gr., ei)i, on; theUi, the nipple.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle waxy or tloceose, resupinate, effused. Hymenium smooth, inter- 
spersed with scattered sterile protuberances, caused by the breaking througli of 
fasciculate mycelial hyphae. Spores white, fusiform, smooth; basidia with 2-4 
sterigmata. Cystidia none. Growing on dead leayes, herbaceous stems and 
wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
411. Epithele glauca (Cke.) Wakefield (Gr., glaulcos, grey, pale-green, or 
greenish-grey). — Forming thin extensive effused, adglutinate, determinate. Dark 
Gray to Light Drab (XLVi.) patches, up to oin. x IHn. (12.5 x 3.7 cm.), usually 
smaller, often with outlying islands, occasionally cracking, densely beset witli 
minute granules or spines which Miss Wakefield has shown to be composed of 
fascicles of sterile brownish hyphae covered with deposits of crystals. Spores 
' ‘ cylindric-ellipsoid, one side depressed, 8 to 9 x 2 to 2.5 fi” (Wakefield). South 
Aukralia — Blackf ellows ’ Creek near Kuitpo (?). Queensland— Near Brisbane. 
New South Wales — Mosman, Hawkesbury River, Bulladelah. Victoria — Cresswick. 
•lune, August, November. 
Tliis is Grandinia glauca of Cooke {cide Handbook of Australian Fungi, No. 
9(il) which Miss Wakefield has shown is not a Grandinia hut belongs to the 
Tlielephoraceae and seems best placed under Epithele. 
ALEURODISCUS Rabenh. 
(Gr., alenron, flour, starch; diskos, a round plate.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle waxy floccose or o'ustaceous, becoming coriaceous ; resupinate, 
sauccT’-shaped with a free nuu'gin, or effused and adnate. Hvmenium sniootli, 
pulverulent, often containing mucli granular oi’ crystalline matter.^ Spores white, 
large, ovoid, elliptical or subgloboitl; smooth or echinulate ; basidia large with 
4 stout sterigmata, intermixed with torulose, moniliform or racemose parapliyses 
or sterile basidia. Growing on wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
One species ;[)robably occurs in South Australia but awaits identification. 
ASTEROSTROMELLA v. Hohnel et Litsch. 
(Gr., aatvr, a star; diminutive for stroma, anything spread out for lying or 
sitting upon.) 
“Receptacle effused, crumbly, floccose, thin-membranaceous or almost waxy. 
Hymenium formed of sparsely distributed basidia in a felt work of dichotomous- 
branching lamifying pai'aphyses (dichophyses), colourless or poorly stained with 
pointed ends, basidia club-shaped with 2-4 sterigmata. Spores thin-walled, 
smooth, hyaline. ’ ’ — Killermann. 
No Australian species recoraled. 
DENDROTHEEE v. Hohnel et Litsch. 
(Gr., dendron, a tree; thclc, the nipple.) 
“Like Aleurodiscus but with warty setae (dendrophyses) forming projecting 
stnictures on the hymenium.’’ — Killermann. 
No Australian species recorded. 
