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1364. Geoglossum australe. Berk. Cooke Myco. p. 6, /. 8. 
Sacc. Syll. 144. 
Smooth, dry, brown, then black, clubs compressed, almost 
distinct from the squamulose stem (3^-5 m.m. long) ; asci fusoid ; 
sporidia cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, 6-7 septate, brown, curved, 
120 x 6-7 p ; paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened, scarcely 
septate, ochraceous upwards. 
Amongst moss. Victoria. Tasmania. (Fig. 143.) 
1365. Geoglossum nigritum. Fries. Cooke Myco. Jig. 345. 
Sacc. Syll. 145. 
Fasciculate, fragile, black, fistulose, clubs somewhat compressed, 
equal in length to the slender stem. Asci fusoid ; sporidia cylin- 
drical, curved, 7 septate, brown, 70x5 p ; paraphyses septate, in- 
curved and clavate at the tips, brownish. 
In grassy places. Harkaway Range. 
1366. Geoglossum Feckianum. Cooke Myco. t. 2, fig. 5. 
Sacc. Syll, 147. 
Smooth, somewhat viscid, turning black (about 2 in. high), asci 
rather fusoid; sporidia linear, 15 septate, brown, 120x6-7 pj 
paraphyses septate, curved above and circinate, floxuous. 
On moist ground. Australia. 
Family III. PEZIZEJE. Fr. 
Cup-shaped or disc-shaped, rarely inflated ; stipitate or sessile ; 
excipulum fleshy, or rather coriaceous, or waxy. 
Genus 10. RHIZINA. Fries. 
Fleshy, crustaceous, sessile, bullate beneath, hymenium superior, 
even ; attached beneath by long rootlets, margin deflexed. Asci 
cylindrical. Sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1367. Rhizina ferruginea. Phil. Grev. xvi., 74. 
Cups orbicular, sessile, concave, becoming nearly plane to 
1 in.), margin entire, elevated or incurved, rigid when dry, tough 
and gelatinous when moist. Hymenium sooty brown, externally 
minutely tomentose, ferruginous brown. Asci cylindrically clavate, 
sporidia elliptic, 1-2 guttulate, rough (20-23x4-5 p ), paraphyses 
thickened upwards, septate. 
On fragments of decayed wood. Victoria. 
Genus 11. GEOFYXIS. Pers. 
Fungi fleshy, cup-shaped, stipitate, externally smooth, stem thin 
or short, sometimes rooting, not sulcate. Sporidia ellipsoid or 
oblong, continuous, hyaline. 
1368. Geopyxis aluticolor. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 210. = 
Peziza (Tarzetta) aluticolor. Berk. Aust. Fungi 220. 
Cooke Myco. t. 50,/. 198. Peziza Colensoi. Berk. FI. iV. 
Zeal. t. 105, f. 5. Sacc. Syll. 633. 
Pale tan coloured, stipitate, iufundibuliform, plicate at the base 
(12 m.m. broad), margin indexed, at first delicately tomentose 
with short, pallid, silky hairs, becoming at length smooth. Stem 
