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973 . Lachnocladium flagelliforme. Berk. N. Zeal. 186. 
Sacc. Syll. 8018. 
Very much branched, divided to the base (5 c.m. long) ; 
brandies rather fasciculate, fastigiate, cylindrical, elongated, 
forked, acute, undivided at the tips. 
On naked ground. Queensland. New Zealand. (Fig. 79). 
Genus 49. THELEPHORA. Ehr. 
Hymenium inferior, or on both surfaces, continuous with the 
hymenophore, and similar, even or ribbed, without an intermediate 
Stratum. Spores globose, ovoid, even or. rough, hyaline or coloured. 
974 . Thelephora concrescens. Fr. PI. Preiss. 136. Sacc. 
Syll. 7087. 
Csespitose, growing together (2^-4 m.m. high) ; stem brown ; 
pileus infundibuliform, fibrously striate, nearly entire ; stems and 
hymenium even, becoming cinereous. 
In moist places. W. Australia. 
975 . Thelephora caryophyllea. Schaiff. Fr. Iiym. Fur. 
684. Sacc. Syll. 7098. 
Purplish brown ; pileus somewhat coriaceous, depressed, 
fibrously torn ; margin incised or divided into a few linear branches 
'(1-1^ c.m. high) ; stem short, hymenium nearly even, smooth; 
spores sphseroid, rough, brownish, 8 p diam. 
Amongst grass. W. Australia. 
976 . Thelephora congesta. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvi., 168. 
Sacc. Syll. 7107. 
Small, gregarious, dark purple, sparingly furcately branched, 
pubescent downwards (1 in. high) ; branches subcyliudrical, acute, 
fastigiate, now and then compressed. 
In moist places. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. (Fig. 78). 
977 . Thelephora Archeri. Berk. FI. Tasm. t. 183, f. 2. 
Sacc. Syll. 7116. 
Dichotomous, stems connate below, branches compressed, dilated 
above, ochraceous (40 m.m. high) ; apices acute, brown. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. Tasmania. 
978 . Thelephora myriomera. Fr. PL Preiss. 137. Sacc. 
Syll. 7129. 
Csespitose, papery, flattened and much branched, growing together 
(5-7 c.m. high); lobes ascending, dilated above, rounded, entire, 
sterile upwards, clad with radiating elevated lines, sooty-brown ; 
hymenium inferior, ribbed and rugose, smooth, purple-brown. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
979 . Thelephora inultipartita. Schtcz. Fr. Epic. 536. Sacc. 
Syll. 7142. 
Coriaceous, cinereous brown; pileus smooth, much divided down 
to the stem in a branching manner, lacinia dilated above and incised 
■(2| c.m. high), even and smooth beneath. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
