AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
217 
var. ft. pentactina. Endl. Schlecht Diss. 7. 
With five bifid rays. 
On the ground. N.S. Wales. 
1202. Aserije lysuroides. Fischer. Sacc. Syll. 26.= 
Lysurus aseroeformis., Corda Ic. vi., t. 4, f. 3-8. 
Stem white, slender, long, a little dilated at the apex, closed, 
expanded in a horizontal disc ; disc carmine-rose above (2 c.m. 
diam.), externally distinct from the stem ; margin divided into 6-7 
irregular lobes (2-3 c.m. long), which are dichotomous or twice 
dichotomously divided above, deflexed, apices subulate, white 
below, rosy above ; sporiferous pulp covering the disc and lower 
part of tiie lobes ; lobes at first united together. 
On the ground. New Holland. Tasmania. 
Family II. NIDULARIACE2E. Fr. Sys. Myc. m„ 296. 
Cup-shaped when mature, coriaceous, containing numerous lens- 
shaped or spherical sporangioles, generally united by a thread to 
the interior wall of the receptacle. Spores elliptical, continuous. 
Genus 9. CYATHUS. Hall Helv. in., 127. 
Peridium at first obovate or fusiform, obtuse, at length dehis- 
cing at the apex, but closed by a white operculum ; composed of 
three closely applied membranes. Sporangia flattened, umbilicate, 
with a funiculus attached to the wall. Spores innate. 
1203. Cyathus novsezealaadise. Tul Mon. Nid. t. 6, /. 1-5. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 95. 
Elongated, narrow, brown, externally woolly with adpressed 
down, internally striate, sulcate ; margin scarcely distinctly 
tomentose, corona very short, continuous. Sporangia 15-18 thick, 
plane disciform, very black, smooth, almost destitute of umbilicus, 
2^-3 rn.m diam. ; tunic very thin, scarcely conspicuous ; spores 
numerous, elliptic, ll-13x5g-6| y, somewhat acute at each end, 
even. 
On rotten wood. N.S. Wales. New Zealand. 
1204. Cyathus Montagnei. Tul. Mon. Nid. t. 4, f. 9-11. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 96. 
Peridium crucible-shaped or obconic, externally ferruginous, 
with a few woolly hairs, internally smooth, striate and ciliate 
above ; sporangia rounded-elliptic, umbilicate, turning black, tunic 
very thin (2 rn.m. diam.). Spores thick, elliptical, obtuse at the 
ends, 20 x 13 y, even. 
On chips, etc. W. Australia. Queensland. 
1205. Cyathus intermedius. Tul. Mon. Nid. t. 4, /. 4-7. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., 98. 
Cup-shaped, obconic, externally ferruginous, turning yellowish, 
hairy, with spreading fasciculate hairs, internally bluish lead- 
colour, slightly striate; sporangia turning black (2 rn.m. diaui.), 
tunic very thin, substance in the middle become black ; spores 
ovoid, 15 x 8-9 y. epiphragm floccosely mealy, white. 
On rubbish. Queensland. 
