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THE LARGER FUNGI 
7. CYPHELLACEAE. 
Hymeniuni covering the whole of the interior of eup-sliaped, urceolate or 
cylindiieal receptacles; smooth or veined. 
CYTIDIA Quel. (= AURICULARIOPSIS K. Mairo.) 
(Gr., l:ytos, a hollow vessel.) 
"Receptacle coriaceous-gelatinous, cup-shaped, sessile, scattered, crowded, or 
confluent. Hynienium smooth, becoming wrinkled or veined. Spores white or 
slightly coloured ; boat-shaped, globose, or cylindrical ; smooth ; basidia elongate, 
narrow, cylindrical with 4 thin, short sterigmata. Growing on wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No. 54(i, Auricularia sp. (see p, 329) proves to be Cytidia flocculenta (Pr.) 
V. llohn. et bits. National Park. 
CYPHELLA Pr. 
(Gr., IcypheUa, the hollow of the ear.) 
"Receptacle waxy, membranaceous or subgelatinous, cup-shaped or urceolate; 
stipitate, sessile, or pendulous. Hymeniuni smooth, rugulose, or veined. Spores 
wliite, elliptical, obovate, globose, ])runiform, subpyriform, ovate, clavate or pip- 
shaped, smooth; basidia clavate, with 2-4 sterigmata. Cystidia rarely present. 
Growing on wood, bark, herbaceous stems and mosses ; scattered or gregarious. ’ ’ — 
Rea. 
421. Cyphella muscigena (Pors.) Pr. (I,., musous, a moss; genus, birth). — 
Pure white, usually about -Jin. (3 mm.), sometimes Jin. (6 mm.), Cj/plielici -shaped, 
occasionally more” open, flaring or ti/umpet-shaiied, sometimes witli the edges 
turned out to form a slight flange, often deep and bell-sliaped, or with a narrow 
mouth, externally slightly strigose or dull. Hymenial surface sometimes with 
folds which are rarely deep, irregular and gill-like with thick edges. Attached 
above by a narrow base. Spores pear-shaped, 8 x (i.5 y. Attached to tiioss, under 
sides of stones, dead leaves, etc. South Australia — On a shadv bank, Greenhill 
Road. July. 
SOLENIA Hoffm. 
(Gr., sdlen, a pipe.) 
"Receptacle coriaceous or membranaceous; tubular, cylindrical, cup-sliaped or 
pyriform, sessile, seated on a superficial, felt-like, tlien floccose and fugacious 
mycelium. Hymenium smooth. Spores white, elliptical, cylindrical, globose, or 
subglobose; basidia clavate, with 2-4 sterigmata. Growing on wood, gregarious 
or fasciculate, rarely solitary. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No South Australian species yet recorded. 
POROTHELIUM Pr. 
(Gr., poros, a pore; thele, the nipple.) 
"Receptacles cup-shaped, sessile, more or less crowded, distinct, seated on or 
immersed in a membranaceous or floccose stroma. Hymeniuni smooth. Spores 
white, oblong, elliptical, or linear oblong; smooth; basidia with 2-4 sterigmata. 
Cystidia none. Growing on wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No South Australian species yet recorded. 
PHAEOCYPHELLA Pat. 
(Gr., phaios, dusky; IcypheUa, the hollow of the ear.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle waxy, fleshy or membranaceous ; cup-shaped or urceolate, sessile, 
pendulous. Hymenium sm'ootli, rugulose or wrinkled. Spores coloured, elliptical 
or subglobose”; smooth, punctate, verrucose, or echiiiulate ; basidia with 2-4 
sterigmata. Growing on wood or on mosses.’’ — Rea. 
No Australian species recorded. 
