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vaginate base, broadly limbate, minutely serrulate; seta lateral 1°5 em. high, 
somewhat flexuose, slender, purple; theca nodding, suboval, asymmetrical, 
scurfy, when dry plicate; operculum lengthily subulate from the conical base. 
Hab. : Eumundi, J. H. Simmonds and Bailey. 
CALYMPERES, Swartz. 
C. (Hyophilina) pandureefolium, Broth. J.c. Dicecious; exspitose, the tufts soft, 
broadly spreading, dwarf, somewhat loose, green, scarcely 1 ¢.m. high, erect, 
straight, densely rooting below, simple or subsimple ; leaves when dry 
imbricate, margins involute, apex incurved, when damp erecto-patent, somewhat 
flat, panduriform, obtuse or shortly contracted at the apex, as much as 19 mm. 
long and 0:57-0:66 mm. broad, margins erect, quite entire, nerves thick ; base 
‘075 mm. broad, green; evanescent near the apex or below the summit of the 
apex; scabrous in the upper portion of the under surface ; cells pellucid, 
subrotund, ‘01-012 mm., papillose; transverse epidermal outline obovate, 
composed of rectangular large hyaline empty cells, the basal and lateral ones 
much smaller and chlorophyllose. 
Hab. : Cape York, W. Micholitz. 
LEPTOHYMENIUM, 
L. papuanum, Broth. l.c. Dicecious; slender, cespitose, tufts loose, intricate, 
depressed, yellowish-green, somewhat glossy; stem elongated, creeping, emitting 
brown rootlets throughout its whole length, flexuous, branching in an irregular 
pinnate manner, branches short, when dry like catkins, curvate, straight when 
wet, densely leaved, obtuse ; leaves when dry imbricate, erecto-patent when 
wet, somewhat concave, from the base broadly ovate, by degrees narrow- 
acuminate; the margins on the lowest base smoothly revolute, quite entire, or 
very minutely crenulate, with two short yellowish nerves; cclls narrow elliptic, 
papillose, wings numerous, oblate, chlurophyllose, those on the branches smaller, 
less acuminate. 
Hab. : Thursday Island, W. Micholitz, 
Order FUNGI. 
CLAVARIA, Vaill. 
C. Baileyi, Massee (n. sp.) Pallid, or with an ochraceous tinge, 3-4 cm. high, 
stem rather stout, up to 1 em. long, slightly downy at the base; branches mostly 
originating from one point, numerous, tfastigiate, each dividing into several 
branchlets the tips of which are simple or bifurcate, glabrous. Spores white, 
elliptical, minutely warted, 5-6 x 3p. (Hx letter from Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England.) 
Hab.: Brisbane, on the ground. 
PHYLLACHORA, Fckl. 
P, graminis, Pers. (Qooke, in Handb. Austr. Fungi, 296.) Stroma distinct 
or confluent, innate in-the parenchyma of the leaf, rather prominent, 
covered by the adnate, shining, blackened epidermis, variable in form, for the 
most part oblong or lanceolate, black, unequal, rugulose (about 1 m.m. long); 
perithecia immersed, ostiola latent. Asci cylindrical, 78-80 x 7-8 4. Sporidia 
ovoid, simple, usually including a large guttule, hyaline, 8-12 x 4-5 w. Sper- 
matia faleate, 16 x 14-2 , hyaline in the young cells.— Cooke J.c, 
Hab.: On kangaroo-grass leaves, growing on damp land at Toowong. 
