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VIII. FUNGI. 
51. STILBUM, Tode. 
Minute Fungi, consisting of a globose deciduous head on an erect stalk. 
Stalk solid. Heads deciduous, gelatinous. Spores minute. 
Chiefly a temperate genus, with a few tropical species. 
1. S. lateritium, Berk.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 197. Gregarious, erumpent, 
pale brick-red. Stems /g- in- high, thickest at the base, often confluent and 
flattened, pruinose from the presence of curved obtuse flocci. Capitula 
ovate or hemispherical, minutely setulose. Sporidia oblong. 
Middle Island : on bark, Lyall, Bidwill. (S. America.) 
52. EPICOCCTTM, Link. 
Minute Fungi, forming raised specks on leaves, etc. Spores large, sub- 
globose, simple or compound, springing from the surface of a cushion-like 
receptacle. 
All the known species are natives of temperate climates. 
1. E. pallescens. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 198. t. 105./. 14. Specks 
fawn-coloured, at first covered by epidermis. Receptacula of several layers, 
the lowest with fimbriated edges. Spores shortly stalked, cellular, enclosing- 
many sporidia. 
Northern Island : on dead leaves of Earina, Colenso. 
53. CEDEMIUM, Link. 
Small Fungi, forming black felted masses of floccose filaments. Filaments 
rigid, opaque, protruding large globose usually reticulated spores at their 
sides. 
A small genus of temperate climates, probably allied to Antennaria. 
1. CE. robustum, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 198. Forming a stratum of 
rigid erect bristly filaments, -g-g-g- in. long, jointed below, above bearing a few 
divided curved branches. 
Northern Island: on bark, Colenso. 
54. MACROSPORIUM, Fries. 
Plants forming a thin floccose stratum, covered with erect, clavate, multi- 
septate spores. 
A little-studied genus of microscopic Fungi, often parasitic on other Fungi. 
1. M. obtusum, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 198. Forming an olivaceous 
coat on the mouths of a Hypoxylon. Filaments obsolete. Spores in. 
long, clavate, obtuse, 4-5-partite, each division with a globose nucleus. 
Northern Island: bn the mouths of a Eijpoxylon, Colenso. 
55. CLADOSPORIUM, 
Fungi consisting of a minute filamentous mycelium, the filaments divided 
into short branches, which bear short 1-septate deciduous spores. 
