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ends usually not distinctly swollen, consequently running through 
to the ends, usually a little bent on one side, two to three times 
the diameter of the elnter in length ; spirals two, turning to the 
right, separated by intervening spaces three to four times as broad, 
on the convex side the bent elaters very much prominently notched ; 
spores 10-14 /a, delicately warted. 
On stumps. Queensland. Tasmania. N. Zealand. 
2055. Trichia contorta. Ditrn. Jtostf. Mon. 259. Sacc. Syll . 
vii., 1503. Mass. Mon. 182. 
Variable inform, sometimes with a manifest, elongated, flexuous, 
rather compressed, umber peridiutn, sometimes a veined, creeping, 
arcuate brown or bay-brown plasmodium, opaque or rather shining ; 
elaters 2^-3 /a thick, conspicuously thickened at the apex, termi- 
nated by thin, even spines, turns of the spiral 2-4, scarcely dis- 
tinct ; spores yellow, 9-10 /a diam. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. Tasmania. 
2056. Trichia verrucosa. Berk. FI. Tasm. 269. Mass. Mon. 
191. 
Sporangia pyriform, brown or chestnut, shining, passing down- 
wards into a long, slender stem, simple or botryoid, scattered, 
springing from a thick, broadly effused hypothallus ; mass of 
capillitium and spores ochraceous ; threads of capillitium not 
branched, cylindrical, 8-10 /a thick, with smooth, tapering tips of 
variable length, and straight or curved ; spirals close, thin, not 
prominent ; spores globose, with narrow, raised Hat bands com- 
bined into a few large, irregular polygonal meshes, bands not 
punctate, 14-16 /a diam. 
On wood. Tasmania. (Fig. 353.) 
2057. Trichia affinis. DeBary. Rost. Mon. 257. Mass. Mon. 
194. Sacc. Syll. 1499.=Trichia chrysosperma. Bull, in lists. 
Sporangia clustered, circular or elliptical, sessile on a broad 
base, seated on a distinct hypothallus, clear pale yellow ; mass of 
elaters and spores pale yellow; elaters cylindrical, 4-6 y. thick, 
ending in short, tapering, smooth tips ; spirals thin, rather close, 
not prominent, sometimes with short spinules ; spores globose, 
with broad, slightly raised, flat bands, combined into a net-work, 
or sometimes with free ends, surface of bands pitted, 10-14 /a 
diam. 
On wood, etc. Queensland. Tasmania. 
Section 4. Lithoderme.e. 
Wall of sporangium with an external deposit of lime, capillitium 
present. 
Sub-Section 1. Didymese. 
Threads of capillitium without lime. 
