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1384. Pyronema melaloma. Fr. Sacc.Syll. 401.=Peziza 
(Pyronema) melaloma. A. $ S . Cooke Myco. t. 17,/. 67. 
Cups sessile, crowded, at first concave, then nearly plane, 
orbicular or flexuous, brick-red orange, briclt-red when dry, 
externally sprinkled with obsolete hairs (4 m.m. broad) ; asci sub- 
cylindrical ; sporidia ellipsoid, usually uniguttulate, 16-18 x 10 g, 
paraphyses incrassated at the apex. 
On burnt ground. Victoria. W. Australia. 
1385. Pyronema omph.alod.es. Bull. Sacc. Syll. 400. 
Cooke Myco. f. 65. 
Cups sessile, crowded, minute, nearly plane, somewhat umbili- 
cate (1 m.m. diam,), seated on a fugacious white tomentum ; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia ovoid, 12-14 x 6-7 g, paraphyses filiform. 
On scorched soil. Victoria. (Fig. 149.) 
Genus 16. HUMARIA. Fries. 
Cups fleshy, small, cup-shape, expanded, rarely a little convex, 
often bright coloured ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
a. Crouania. Sporidia globose. 
1386. Hnmaria (Crouania) miniata. Fckl. Symb. 220. 
= Hum aria Crouani. Cooke Myco. t. 5, f. 17. Barlsea 
miniata. Sacc. Syll. 416. 
Cups fleshy, firm, urceolate, then patellate, scarlet, cells of the 
margin cylindrically clavate, ochrey (5-10 m.m. diam.) ; asci cylin- 
drical, long, rounded at the apex; sporidia spherical, 15-18 g, 
uninucleate, at length areolate and rough, hyaline, paraphyses 
clavulate, granular. 
Amongst moss. Victoria. 
1387. Humaria (Crouania) miltina. Berk. N. Zeal. 199. 
Cke. Myco. f. 24. Sacc. Syll. 424. 
Sessile, scattered, crimson, flattened ; margin paler beneath, 
free (1 c.m. diam.) ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia globose, even (16 g 
diam.), hyaline ; paraphyses filiform. 
On sandy ground. Victoria. N. Zealand. 
1388. Humaria (Crouania) globifera. Cooke Myco. f. 34. 
— Barltea globifera. B. C. Cub. 669. Sacc. Syll. 431. 
Yellow, cups saucer-shaped ; margin inflexed, sometimes lobed ; 
asci clavate-cylindrical ; sporidia globose, even (8-10 g diam.), 
hyaline. 
On sandy soil. Victoria. 
1389. Humaria (Crouania) Archeri. Berlc.= Peziza Archeri. 
Berk. FI. Tam. 274. 
Sessile, crimson (6 m.m. diam.), at first concave, at length ex- 
panded, undulate ; margin free ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia globose, 
with a large nucleus, 8 g diam. 
On dead leaves of succulent plant. Tasmania. 
The only specimen found in Herb. Berk, is a collapsed Myxo- 
gaster, immature, with globose hyaline spores. 
