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THE LARGER FUNGI 
EOCEONARTIUM Atkinson. 
(Gr., eos, dawn; cronartium, tlie genus Cronuriium.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle subgelatinous, tougli, filamentous, erect, filiform or subulate. 
Hymenium smooth. Basidia cylindrical, transversely 3-septate. Spores white, 
continuous, producing a mycelium on germination. Growing on mosses.” — Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
STILBUM (Tode) duel. 
(Gr., stilho, 1 shine.) 
‘ ‘ Receptacle erect, globose, stipitate. Hymenium consisting of branched 
threads terminated by a basidiujn. Basidia short, x)ear-shaped, transversely 
l-se])tate. Spores white, elliptical. Growing on dead wood. ’ ’ — Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
ECCHYNINEAE. 
Hymenium enclosed with a peridium. 
ECCHYNACEAE. 
Same characters as suborder. 
ECCHYNA Fr. 
(Gr., clcchyno, I pour out.) 
"Peridium fibrillose, sulrglobose, stipitate or substipitate, thin, fugacious. 
Gleba, threads radiating, branched, flexuose at the ends. Basidia cylindrical, 
straight or curved, transversely .3-septate; bearing sessile or very shortly 
])edicellate spores, scattered or in tufts on the lower portion of the threads. 
Spores fawn colour, elliptical or subglobose, smooth, producing sporidiola on 
germination. Growing on wood.” — Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
TEEMELLALES. 
Basidia subglobose, longitudinally or vertically cruciately divided into 2-4 parts. 
Spores producing sporidiola or a mycelium on germination. 
TREMELLINEAE. 
Same characters as the order. 
SIROBASIDIACEAE. 
Basidia catenulate, the septa usually oblique; basidiospores sessile. 
SIROBASIDIUM Lag. et Pat. 
(Gr., seira, a chain; hasidiwm, the organ bearing the spores.) 
With the characters of the family. 
547. Sirobasidium sanguineum Lag. et Pat. (L., sanguineus, blood-red).— - 
"Pructificiitiou pallid or light ochraceous buff to coral or reddish-brown, 
gelatinous opaque, cerebriforni, § to §in. (1 to 4 cm.) in length. Basidia 
catenulate, in tufts, radiating, and frequent!}- with clamp connectiona at the 
base, becoming divided into 2 to 4 cells by iongitudinal, oblique or transverse 
septa. Basidiospores sessile, elongated-clavate to broadly fusoid, 14 to 26 x 
3 to 9 /u, germinating by repetition or by budding. ’ ’ — Martin. 
TEEMELLACEAE. 
Basidia not catenulate, the septa usually longitudinal or nearly so; basidio- 
spores borne orr sterignrata at the tips of epibasidia. 
