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1379. Otidea phlebophora. B. Sacc. Syll. 362.=Peziza 
(Otidea) phlebophora. Berk. 4' Br. Brit. Fungi 1153. 
Cooke My co. f. 217. 
Sac-shaped, oblique, ochraceous yellow, rather stipitate, 
delicately pulverulent (2-4 c.m. broad), veined and ribbed at the 
base. Asci cylindrical; sporidia elliptic, even, 10-12 x 6 p ; para- 
physes few, linear. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
Genus 14. DISCINA. Fries. 
Fungi fleshy, rather large, soon flattened, discoid, often undu- 
late, repand and lobed, almost immargiuate, brownish, rarely 
bright coloured. Sporidia ellipsoid or oblong, hyaline. 
1380. Discina repanda. Wahl. Sacc. Syll. 373.=:Peziza 
(Discina) repanda. Wahl. Ups. 466. Cooke Myco. t. 62, 
f. 240. 
Large. Cups incised and repand, internally somewhat rugose, 
brown (4-10 c.m. broad), externally whitish, mealy, produced 
downwards into a rooting base. Asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
ellipsoid, biguttulate, even, 18-20 x 10 p, hyaline ; paraphyses few, 
filiform. 
On rotten trunks and the ground. Victoria. N.S. Wales. 
1381. Discina lnmbricalis. Cke. Sacc. Syll. 377.=Peziza 
(Discina) lumbricalis. Cooke Grev. vm., 61. 
Large. Cup-shaped ; cups at length expanded, revolute and 
flattened (3-7 c.m. broad), externally nearly smooth or mealy, 
internally pallid brown. Asci attenuated, cylindrical, 200 p. long. 
Sporidia elliptic, smooth, binucleate, hyaline, 10-12x5 p. 
On the ground. Victoria. New Zealand. (Fig. 148.) 
1382. Discina venosa. Fers. Syn. 638. Cooke Myco. f. 
228,373. Sacc. Syll. 391. 
Sessile or substipitate, umber brown ; externally whitish, rugose 
with costate veins ; base produced into a very short stem ; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia elliptic, smooth, granular within, 18-23 x 10- 
12 p\ paraphyses copious, clavate and brown at the tips. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
1383. Discina anstralica. Cooke. 
Cups large (5-10 c.m. diam.), cup-shaped, then expanded, 
smooth, ochraceous, attenuated downwards into a short, thick, 
rooting stem ; hymeuium of the same colour ; asci and sporidia 
unknown. 
On the ground. Victoria. (Fig. 176.) 
This species is known only from a drawing, and hence im- 
perfectly characterized. 
Genus 15. FYRONEMA. Cams. 
Cups small, often gregarious, fleshy, depressed, seated on a 
web-like subiculum ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
