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concave disc. Outer surface sterile, of globose or cylindrical hyaline cells, 
ifontext of gelatinous tissue. Basidia forming a palisade surface layer, cylin 
drical, filled with granular matter, forked. Spores 8 x 20 hyaline, curved, 
septate in germination. It Ims the colour and general appearance to the eye of 
Tremella Inteseens, but differs in being pezi/.aeform. It is close to Guepinia 
occMentalis of our Pacific. Coast excepting shape.” Later (loc. cit., No. 74, 
March, 1925, p. KUO, fig. 3124) he states that the colour is orange yellow, the 
plant is attached by a broad base and the spores are 8 to 10 x 20 to 24 p., seven 
septate. Professor' Martin, in examining specimens for us, finds the spores 14 to 
17 X (1.5 to 7.5 |U, three to five septate, usually with one large guttule or sometimes 
two or more smaller ones. In addition he found numerous elongated or allantoid 
conidia, apparently borne by the spores in germination. 
The description of fresh specimens is as follows; — Receptacle J to lin. (1.2 to 
2.(i cm.), rather fiabelliform or Cyphella-s\\&\>ed, contracted above to a stout 
base, firm gelatinous, thick, upper surface convex, sometimes slightly rugose, 
Light Orange Yellow or near Orange (m.). Hymenial surface more or less 
concave, sometimes nearly plane, often rather' irregular, a little paler and 
vellower than the upper surface. Spores slightly curved, sausage-shaired,^ white, 
11.5 to 17.8 X 4 to 5.3 p, two or several septate. South Australia — Often on 
fences, Mount Loftv; Williamstown. Tasmania. April to .July, September. 
DITIOLA Pr. 
(Gr., (Us, twice; ioylos, down, the first growth of the beard.) 
•‘Receptacle gelatinous, subgelatinous, sometimes becoming horny, always firm 
and becoming iirdurated in the stem; cup-shaped, tubercular or globose, soinetimes 
branched ,or lobed ; stipitate or substipitate. Ilymenium discoid, unilateral, 
smooth. Basidia cylindrical with two long sterigmata. Spores white, oblong, 
cylindrical or elliptic cylindrical, smooth, simple or 1-3 transversely septate. 
Cirowing on woo<l. ’ ’ — Rea. 
558 Ditiola radicata (All), et Schw.) Fr. ? (L., radioatus, rooted).— Reoe;)- 
tacle firm-gelatinous, pale yellow, patellate, the surface somewhat convex 'and 
sliuhtlv cerebriform, 2 to 5 mm. broad, with a thick, fibrous, tough root immersed 
in the' substratum. Flesh pale, subgelatinous, composed of freely branching and 
anastomosing, conspicuously rough-walled hyphae, 2 to 2 A p in diameter. 
Probasidia 20 to 25 x 3.5 to 4.5 p, producing two stout epibasidia. Basuliospores 
allantoid, becoming 1 -septate in germination, 8 to 11 x 3.5 to 4 p. Victoria 
Brisbane Range. Europe, etc. November. 
Pi'ofessor Martin refers this Australian collection to this species, but with some 
misgivings, on the basis of the patellate, nailhead-like disks with the^ obtuse 
mai^ins, the thick rooting stem and pallid colour and pale flesh. He noted that 
it is not growing on coniferous wooel as is usual in this species. 
TEMSJONIA Fr. 
(Femsjonia, belonging to Fenisjo.) 
“Receptacle gelatinous or floccose, heterogeneous, erumpent, convex then plane, 
olic.onic, sessile. Ilymenium smooth, becoming wrinkled. Basidia cylindrical with 
two long pointed sterigmata. Spores yellowish, boat-shaped, simp o anc^mi 
guttulate, then becoming oblong and multi-septate. Growing on wood. Rea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
DACRYOMITRA Tub (DACRYOPSIS Alass.) 
(Gr., (laUryon, a tear; mitra, a turban.) 
“Receptacle gelatinous or subgelatinous, firm, erect, cylindrical, apex globose 
or elongate, stipitate. Ilymenium smooth or rugosely wrinkled. Basidia 
cylindrical with two long sterigmata. Conidiophores present or absent, 
ing or preceding the basidia. Spores white, oblong or elliptical, smooth, simple 
or transversely septate. Growing on wood. ’ Rea. 
One species has been collected in this State but has not yet been identified. 
