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1457. Ombrophila radicata. Phil. Grev. xvi., 93. Sacc. 
Syll. 2532. 
Solitary or cscspitose ; cups stipitate, rather gelatinous (4-10 
m.m.); hymenium depressed, rugose, liver-colour; margin thin, 
entire, smooth upwards, rugose, flesli-colour ; stem elongated, 
attenuated downwards (6-12 m.m. long), rooting. Asci cylin- 
drically clavate ; sporidia elliptic, biguttulate, hyaline, 6-10 x 
4-5 p ; parapliyses branched, clavate, umber at the tips. 
In swampy places. Victoria. (Fig. 166.) 
1458. Ombrophila terrestris. Phillips. Grev. xvi., 75. 
Sacc. Syll. 2553. 
Orbicular, sessile, gelatinous, concave or flattened ; margin 
entire, erect (6-12 m.m.) ; hymenium umber, externally paler, 
smooth ; sporidia fusiform, elliptic, smooth, uniguttulate, 18-20 x 
7-10 p ; paraphyses filiform, a little thickened at the tips. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
1459. Ombrophila bulgarioides. Sacc. Pug. Austr. p. 14, 
fig. 4. 
Cups gelatinous, then hard, crowded in clusters, at first subur- 
ceolate, sessile, then shortly stipitate, scutellate, externally bright 
ochrey-yellow, almost even, disc nearly plane, soon undulate and 
twisted (5-6 m.m.), rufous brown. Asci tapering, rounded above 
(35-40 x 3^-4 p) ; sporidia oblong, straight or curved (6-7 x 2 p), 
hyaline, continuous. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
1460. Ombrophila trachycarpa. Phil. Grev. xix., 61. 
Subgregarious, sessile, concave, glabrous (1-2 c.m.), wrinkled 
horizontally on the exterior ; margin even, somewhat incurved, 
firm, cartilaginous-gelatinous, dark red-brown throughout, paler 
within. Asci cylindrical, narrowed near the base ; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, tending to fusiform, furnished with one large guttule, 
granulated on the surface, 20-25x10-14 p ; paraphyses rather 
stout, enlarged at the summits, septate. 
On sandy ground amongst mosses. Victoria. 
Genus 37. ORBILIA. Fries. 
Cups rather gelatinous, at first subspliccrical, then nearly plane 
or concave, sessile, superficial, rarely substipitate, typically 
quite smooth, rather horny when dry. Sporidia continuous, 
hyaline. 
1461. Orbilia chrysocoma. Bull. Sacc. Syll. 2572. 
Gregarious, superficial, at the first subglobose, soon flattened 
and rather treinelloid (scarcely -Jr m.m. diam.), golden yellow, some- 
what horny when dry, flexuous. Asci cylindrical, sessile (40-45 
x5 /x) ; sporidia rod-like (14-15 xf-1 p), curved hyaline ; para- 
physes short, thread-like, a little clavate above. 
On wood. Victoria. (Fig. 161.) 
