AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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1351. Mylitta australis. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist, hi., 325. 
Sacc. Syll. 3598. 
Globose, 7^-10 c.m. diarn., firm, cortex unequal, blackish, and 
covered with warts ; gleba solid, yellowish, reticulated with whitish 
veins, seemingly alveolate. Spores unknown. 
In rotten trunks. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. Tas- 
mania. 
Mylitta pseudacaciae. Fr. Syst. Myc. hi., 226. 
Some excrescence, not a true Mylitta. 
On Acacia branches. Tasmania. 
b. DISCOMYCETE1E. 
Fleshy, waxy, or coriaceous fungi, with a variously shaped 
receptacle ; hymenium ascigerous, from the first, or soon open. 
Family I. CYTTAB.IE2E. 
Genus 4. CYTTARIA. Berk. 
Fungi globose or obovate, toughly fleshy when living, rather 
horny when dry, stuffed or hollow, bearing cells oil the periphery, 
which are spherical, dehiscing above with an ostiolum or laciniate 
mouth, replete with an ascigerous mucus. Sporidia continuous, 
hyaline. 
1352. Cyttaria Gunnii. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1848, 576. 
Sacc. Syll. vni., 1. 
Globose or pear-shaped (1^-2 c.m.), at length hollow, attenuated 
at the base, without stem, not rough, cells small (3 m.m. broad), 
opening with a broad, irregular pore. Asci cylindrical, shortly 
stipitate. Sporidia broadly ellipsoid, hyaline. 
On branches of Fagus Cunning hamii. Tasmania. (Fig. 138.) 
Family II. HELVELLEiE. Schwartz. 
Vertical, stipitate, mitrate, gyrose, clavate, capitate, peltate; 
excipulum fleshy or waxy. 
Genus 5. MORCHELLA. Dill. 
Fungi between waxy and fleshy, clavately pileate, confluent with 
the central hollow stem ; plicately or reticulately lacunose above, 
bearing the hymenium effused over the whole surface. Sporidia 
continuous, hyaline. 
* Pileus adnate to the stem. 
1353. Morchella esculenta. Linn. Pers. Syn. 618. Sacc. 
Syll. vni., 8. Cooke Myco. f. 312. 
Capitulum obtuse, ovate, adnate at the base, inflated, pits oval 
deep, folds swollen, irregular, yellowish, then dingy, stem white, 
becoming pallid, equal, inflated, slightly mealy ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia ellipsoid, 20-22 x 10-12 p. 
In moist places. 
