Ciadosporium.'] 
VIII. FUNGI. 
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The only well-known species of this genus is the commonest of parasitic Fungi, infesting 
all sorts of decaying substances, and sometimes smothering living trees. 
1. C. herbarium. Link ; — FI. Antarct. 170. Mycelium dense, soft, 
green, then olive-black ; filaments pellucid, collapsing. Spores olive. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : on Car ex leaves, J. I). A. (Ubi- 
quitous.) 
56. SEPEDOKTUM, Link. • 
Minute Fungi, consisting of a copious filamentous mycelium, bearing at 
the tips of its divisions myriads of large globose spores. 
Abundant Fungi, preying on the large fleshy species, through whose soft tissues their my- 
celium spreads. Some species certainly rudimentary parasitic Spkceria. 
1. S. chrysospermum. Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 199. Fila- 
ments white. Spores golden -yellow, globose, echinulate when dry. 
Northern Island : on Boleti, Bay of Islands, J. D. H. (Probably ubiquitous.) 
57. PILACRE, Fries. 
Very minute Fungi, consisting of globose stipitate heads. Stem solid, 
cylindric, simple or branched. Head globose, of branched radiating flexuous 
threads. Spores at the tips of the branches, forming a dusty mass. 
A small genus of temperate Fungi. 
1. P. divisa^ Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 197. Stems in. high, brown, 
subfascicled, compressed below, forked above, when young pale and tomentose 
below. Heads globose, clay-coloured. Spores subglobose or elliptic, S g Q0 
in. long, nucleus distinct. 
Northern Island: on bark, Colenso. 
58. LEOTIA, Hill. 
Stalked fleshy pileate Fungi. Receptacle capitate, covered everywhere 
with the asci ; margin revolute. 
Natives of temperate regions, growing on moss and on the ground amongst grass, etc. 
1. L. lubrica, Persoon. Subgelatinous, 1-2 in. high. Pileus tumid, 
repand, olive-green. Stem at length hollow. 
Var. £, Berk. Stipes green, thickened downwards. 
Var. 0. Middle Island : Canterbury, Haast, on the ground. Identified by Mr. Berke- 
ley from a drawing. (The original plant is European.) 
59. GEOGLOSSUM, Persoon. 
Fleshy erect Fungi. Receptacle stalked, clavate, covered with the hyme- 
nium. Asci elongate. 
A large genus in temperate climates, growing in shade, on the ground, moss, etc. 
1. G. hirsutum, Persoon; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 199. Erect, hairy, 
black, 1-2 in. high. 
Northern Island, Colenso. (Europe.) 
