AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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1433. Phialea ceratina. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 1102.== Hymeno- 
scypha ceratina. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 275. 
Top-shaped, stipitate, cups smooth, pale, horny-brown, minute 
(scarce 1 m.in. high) ; hymenium plane, marginate, sporidia 20- 
21 p long, oblong-clavate. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Tasmania. 
1434. Phialea byasogena. B. Sacc. Syll. 1104.=Helotium 
byssigenum. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 275. 
Ochraceous ; cups concave (1-1£ m.m.) ; stem elongated (2-21 
m.m.) ; cylindrical, delicately pruinose, arising from interwoven 
radiating flocci ; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong-elliptic, 8-9 p long. 
On naked wood. Tasmania. 
Genus 26. PSEUDOHELOTIUM. Fckl. 
Cups waxy, thin, cnp-shaped, or scutellate, sessile, or nearly so, 
externally very shortly downy, granular, or pruinose ; sporidia 
continuous, hyaline. 
a. Gknuina. Sporidia oblong. 
1435. Fseudohelotium hyalinum. P. Sacc. Syll. 1215. 
=Lachnella hyalina. Pers. Syn. 655. 
Sessile, cups punctiforra, subglobose, pellucid like glass when 
moist, externally downy; asci linear-oblong, 24 x 4 p ; sporidia 
oblong, hyaline, 6-9 x 2-3 p. 
On rotten trunks. Tasmania. 
b. Molliscella. Sporidia globose. 
1436. Pseudohelotium ilicincolum. B. <J- Br. Sacc. Syll. 
1267.=Lachnella ilicincola. B. fy Br. Ann. N.I1. 958, t. 
16,/. 17. 
Fasciculate, mealy, cups hemispherical, then expanded, 
externally dirty white, disc concave, pale brown, or purple, or 
rosy grey ; margin erect or incurved, asci clavate ; sporidia 
globose, uniguttulate, 5 p diam., paraphyses filiformly clavate. 
On branches of Ilex and on Myriangium. Victoria. 
Genus 27. MOLLISIA. Fries. 
Cups superficial, or somewhat erumpent, sessile, minute, waxy, 
flattened, naked ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1437. Mollisia cinerea. Balsch. Cont. i., 196, fig. 137. 
Sacc. Syll. 1393. 
Sessile, soft, minute, cups saucer-like, cinereous, with an entire 
whitish margin (i-f m.m. broad) ; asci rather clavate, 40-50x4- 
■6 p ; sporidia oblong, straight or curved, hyaline, 6-12 x l-2-| p. 
On wood, branches, etc. Victoria. Tasmania. (Fig. 160.) 
Genus 28. TAPESIA. Pers. 
Cups seated on a more or less tomentose subiculum, minute 
•sessile, rarely somewhat stipitate, waxy, externally smooth, mealy 
or pilose ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
