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1089 . Cyphella villosa. Pers. Sacc. Syll. 7868.=Peziza 
villosa. Pers. Syn. 655. 
Sessile, dry, sphasroid, white, covered with a snow-white, per- 
sistent, villose down, open when moist (1-2 m.m. diatn.) ; hyme- 
nium even ; spores ovate, oblong, hyaline, 7-4 /x, on fusoid basidia. 
On herb stems. Queensland. (Fig. 86a). 
1090 . Cypliella polycepliala. Sacc. Hedw. 1889, 126. 
Gregarious ; pilei 4-6 (rarely 2-3), closely joined in a common 
base, whitish-brown, smooth, urn-shaped, for some time closed, 
villose white (1 m.m. thick and high) ; hairs filiform, minutely 
rough above, 5 /x thick ; spores ? 
On herb stems. N. 8. Wales. 
1091 . Cyphella australiensis. Cooke Grev. xx., 9. 
Gregarious, cup-shaped, sessile (1-1-J m.m. diam.j, pallid, clad 
with closely pressed silky hairs ; margin connivent, disc honey- 
coloured ; spornles 4-5x3 /x. 
On bark. Victoria. 
1092 . Cyphella muscigena. Pers. Fr. Hym. Eur. 663. 
Sacc. Syll. 7889. 
Membranaceous, soft, flattened, subdimidiate, white (about 1 
m.m.), externally silky under a lens; hymenium rugulose; spores 
ovoid, hyaline, 8-10 xofi. 
On larger mosses. Victoria. Tasmania. 
Genus 58. CORA.. Fries. 
Coriaceous, membranaceous, or fibrillose and interwoven ; hyme- 
nium inferior, rather waxy, cracking ; basidia monosporous, 
clavate, bearing gonidia on the upper stratum, hymeuial stratum 
densely papillate. 
Doubtful fungi. 
1093 . Cora oeruginosa. Nees. Sacc. Syll. 7912.=Dicho- 
nema aeruginosum. Nees. Jav. t. 2, /. l-3.=Dictyonema. 
Fr. Orb. Vet. 303. 
Membranaceous, imbricately ciespitose, somewhat orbicular, 
wholly villose, everywhere verdigris green, or blue grey, margin 
fringed, paler, marginal areolai irregularly placed, pale yellow. 
On trunks. Queensland. (Fig. 136). 
Family V. CLA VARIED Corda. 
Hymenium not distinct from the hymenophore, developed on 
both surfaces. Rather fleshy or coriaceous fungi, vertical, simple 
or branched. 
Genus 59. SPARASSIS. Fr. 
Fleshy fungi, branched, the branches flattened in a leaf-like 
manner, composed of two laminse, fertile on both sides; basidia 
tetrasporous ; spores continuous, hyaline. 
