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1427. Helotium gratum. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 275. Sacc. 
Syll. 918. 
Cups plane, hyaline, marginate, shortly stipitate, almost orange- 
colour (1 m.m. broad) ; stem paler, cylindrical, sometimes com- 
pressed ; sporidia fasoid, 10 p long. 
On dead wood. Tasmania. 
1428. Helotinm paterseforme. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 276. 
Sacc. Syll. 1028. 
Ochraceous ; cups sessile, somewhat lohed, concave, rather 
rugose and faintly tomentose beneath (4 m.m. broad) ; asci linear; 
sporidia oblong, attenuated at each end, subeymbseform, 30 p long. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. 
1429. Helotium epiphyllum. Pers. Disp. 72. Sacc. 
Syll. 925. 
Subsessile, smooth, convexo-plane, marginate, pallid ochre (2-3 
m.m.); asci clavate; sporidia fusoid, curved, 2-4 guttulate (9-12 
X 4-5 p), paraphyses filiform. 
On dead leaves. Queensland. 
Genus 24. CHLOROSFLENIUM. Fries. 
Cups shortly stipitate, waxy, often flexuous, seruginous or olive, 
often colouring the matrix ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1430. Clilorosplenium aeruginosum. Tul. Fung. Carp, hi., 
187. Sacc. Syll. 1311. 
Shortly stipitate, seruginous green, cups turbinate, then ex- 
panded and rather flexuous (1-4 m.m. broad), disc becoming 
whitish; asci clavate (65-75 x 6 p) ; sporidia fusoid, elongated, 
straight or curved ; hyaline groonish, mostly biguttulate, 10-14 x 
3|-4 p. 
On rotting wood. Victoria. Queensland. (Fig. 158.) 
1431. Chlorosplenium omnivirens. Berk. FI. Tasm. ii., 
p. 275. Sacc. Syll. 1313. 
iEruginons-green, cups shortly stipitate, rather top-shaped ; 
hymenium plane; sporidia broad, 18-20 p long. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. 
Genus 25. PHIALEA. Fries. 
Cups between waxy and membranaceous, thin, at first urn-shaped, 
almost closed, soon open and concave or convex, smooth or 
pruinose, with a long slender stem ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1432. Phialea Berggrenii. C. P. Sacc. Syll. 1048.= 
Helotium Berggreni. Cooke <jr Phil. Grev. vm., 63. 
Pallid, stipitate, cups scattered, wine-glass shape (£-£ m.m.) ; 
stem slender, equal (i-1 m.m. long); asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
elliptic, nucleate, 10-13 X 3-5 p ; paraphyses filiform. 
On rotting leaves. Victoria. (Fig. 159.) 
