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deeply or irregularly rugose, margin incurved ; stem of the same 
colour, even or sulcate, dilated above into the base of the cup (1-2 
c.m. long), flesh pallid; asci cylindrical; sporidia large, oblong, 
curved, rounded at the ends (25-30 x 12 p, sometimes longer) ; 
paraphyses linear, forked at the apex. 
On putrid wood. Queensland. N. Zealand. (Pig. 165.) 
1454. Urnula rhytidea. Berk. FI. N. Zeal, ii., 200, t. 105, 
f. 6. Sacc. Syll. 331. 
Sooty brown, cups nearly sessile, hemispherical, incised, exter- 
nally delicately innate-fibrous, rather hard and tough (25 m.m.), 
undulately rugose, flesh olive ; hymenium polished ; asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia oblong-elliptic, 30 x 8/i. 
On the ground. N.S. Wales. N. Zealand. 
Genus 35. CEMANGIUM. Fries. 
Cups erumpent, then superficial, often casspitose on a common 
stroma, globose and closed, then open and urn-shaped or scutellate, 
coriaceous or rather horny, typically mealy, generally brown or 
black ; sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1455. Cenangium. lichenoideum. B. tj- Br. Linn. Trans., 
Ser. 2, Vol. i., p. 404, t. 45, f. 9. Sacc. Syll. 2323. 
Casspitose, cinereous, cups top-shaped, stipitate, invested with 
irregular, cinereous warts, l±-2± m.m. broad; margin thick, in- 
curved, cinereous, striate, when young irregularly squamose ; 
hymenium even, red-brown ; asci octosporous ; sporidia ellipsoid, 
32-36 p long. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
Family VI. BULGARIEIE. Fries. 
Cups top-shaped, cup-shaped or discoid, gelatinous, becoming 
somewhat horny or cartilaginous. 
Genus 36. OMBROFHIEA. Fries. 
Cups sessile or shortly stipitate, plane or convex (rarely con- 
cave), gelatinous, epiphytic. Sporidia continuous, hyaline. 
1456. Ombrophila violacea. Hediv. Fr. Summ. Veg. Scane. 
357. Sacc. Syll. 2526. 
Gregarious or scattered, at the first rather obconic, then dis- 
tinctly stipitate, violet or pallid violet, plano-convex, then convex 
pileiform when dry, and concave (2 m.m.-l c.m. high) ; stem 
obconic, short. Asci clavate, 95-105 x 9-13 p, crowded ; sporidia 
fusoid-oblong or subellipsoid, sometimes biguttulate, hyaline, 10-16 
X 4-6 p ; paraphyses slender. 
On trunks. 
var. australis. Cooke Grev. Sacc. Syll. 252 G. 
Stem longer, flexuous, rather cinereous. 
On branches. Victoria. (Fig. 167.) 
