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1334. Folysaccum album. Cke. 8c Mass. Grev. xx., 36. 
Peridium globose (5-6 c.m. diam.), white, polished and shining, 
attenuated below into a very short, stout, irregular, stem-lilce base ; 
peridiola irregularly polyhedral (2-3 m.m. across) ; spores in the 
mass yellowish-olive, globose, rather coarsely warted, 9-10 p 
diam. 
On the ground. Victoria. Queensland. 
Doubtful. 
1335. Folysaccum? degenerans. Fr. Plant. Priess. 159. 
Sacc. Syll. vn., 500. 
Clavate, with a rooting stem ; peridium simple, obovate, even, 
ochraceous tan colour, the lower part including peridiola, the 
upper broken into naked, dirty ochraceous spores mixed with 
flocci. 
On river banks. W. Australia. 
Genus 32. ARACHNIdT. Schwein. Syn. Car. xiv. 
Peridium subglobose, with a thin evanescent bark, internally 
corky, irregularly splitting, enclosing numerous adpressed poly- 
sporous sporangioles ; sporangiole friable, without flocci ; spores 
free, equal. 
1336. Aradmion Drummondi. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvni., 
389. Sacc, Syll. vn., 507. 
Globose, a little depressed (§ in. diam. or more), pallid ; 
sporangioles (^ m.m. diam.); spores 7-8 /a diam. 
Attached to Ayaricus ( Acetabularia ) cycnopolamia. W. 
Australia. 
Genus 33. FAUROCOTYLIS. Berk. FI. N. Zeal. p. 188. 
Peridium simple, hard, tough ; gleba floccose, with a few large 
flexuous sinuses ; spores large, globose, pedicellate. 
1337. Faurocotylis pila. Berk. FI. N. Zeal, n., 188. Sacc. 
Syll. vii., 509. 
Globose, slightly sinuated, bright crimson, somewhat rufous, 
contracted and waved when dry ; peridium hard, thin, rigid, con- 
sisting of flocci closely laced into a compact network, trama 
floccose, consisting of loose membranous bodies, which give rise to 
pellucid peduncles, each of which bears a large globose spore, of a 
pale tan colour (20 p diam.). 
On the ground. New Zealand. (Pig. 125.) 
1338. Faurocotylis echinosperma. Cooke Grevillea vm., 
59. Sacc. Syll. VII., 512. 
Depressedly globose, externally tawny flesh colour, marbled 
within ; spores globose, echinulate, 12-14 p diam. 
On trunks. Victoria. 
