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CRISTELLA Pat. (THELEPHORA (Ehrfi.) Fi-. p.p.) 
(L., cristella, a little crest.) 
“Receptacle waxy, firm, effused, incrusting. Hymemum smooth or tubercular. 
Spores white, ovoid or oboval, echinulate; basidia clavate, with 2-4 sterigmata. 
Cystidia none. Growing on the ground, on wood, mosses or dead herbaceous 
stems. ’ ’ — Rea. 
ISTo Australian species recorded. 
HYPOCHNUS (Fr.) Karst. 
(Gr., hypo, under; chnoos, fine down.) 
“Receptacle floccose or felt-like, resupinate, effused. Hvmenium smooth or 
papillose. Flesh coloured, soft, loose. Spores coloured, rough, verrucose or 
echinulate; globose, subglobose, elliptical, ovoi<l or angular; basidia sometimes 
in scattered clusters, with 2-4 stei'igmata. Growing on wood, mosses or on the 
ground. ’ ’ — Rea. 
416. Hypochnus cinerascens Karst. 1 (L., cinerascens, becoming ash-colour). — ■ 
Receptacle l^in. (3.7 cm.), effused, adnate, dry, floccose round the edge, 
hymenium minutely granular, between Drab and Hair Brown (XLVi.), edge pallid, 
flesh loose, easily disintegrated. Hyphae slightly tinted, rough from lime (?) 
encrustation, 3.7 to 5 y. Bpores nodular, dull greyish-brown, 5.5 to 7 y. Follow- 
ing the inequalities of rough bark. South Australia — Mount Lofty. May. 
England. 
HYPOCHNELLA Schroct. 
(Diminutive of Hypochnus.) 
“Same characters as Hypochims but differing in the smooth, elliptical, violet 
spores. Growing on wood.’’ — Rea. 
No Australian species recorded. 
JAAPIA Bros. 
(After Otto .Taap.) 
“Resupinate, effused, emarginate, floeculose-pulverulent, with the habit of 
some Corticia or of a pale Hypochnus. Spores straw-coloured, subelliptical, 
hyaline appendiculate. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No Australian species recorded. 
CONIOPHOEA (DC.) Pers. 
(Gr., Iconis, dust; phero, I bear.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle fleshy, waxy, subcoriaceous or membranaceous, resupinate, effused. 
Hymenium smooth, subundulate tubercular, or granular. Spores coloured, ellip- 
tical, navicular or subfusiform, smooth. Cystidia none. Growing on wood, or 
on the ground. ’ ’ — Rea. 
One probable species has been collected in South Australia but has not yet 
been identified. 
CONIOPHORELLA Karst. 
(Diminutive of Coniophora.) 
“Like Coniophora but with long, cylindrical cystidia.’’ — Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
PENIOPHORA Cooke. 
(Gr., penion, a shuttle; phero, I bear.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle waxy, coriaceous, cartilaginous, membranaceous, submembrana- 
ceous, floccose or filamentous; resupinate, effused. Hymenium waxy, floccose or 
pulverulent; smooth, rarely tubercular. Spores white, rarely pink, or yellowish. 
