THE REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 155 
moderately uniform in shape and size; they are filled with an 
acidulous pulp, in which are lodged numerous oblong, polished, 
brown seeds. Neither the fruit, nor foliage, nor the two combined 
afford positive characters for recognition of the species. 
The synonymy of the plant may be given thus :— 
AMOMUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Sonnerat, Voyage aux Indes Orientales et 
a la Chine, ii. 242, tab. 137; Roxburgh, Flora Ind., ed. Carey, i. 39. 
A. nemorosum, Bojer, Hort. Mauritianus (1837), p. 327. 
A. Danielli, Hook. f., Hooker’s Journ. of Bot. iv. (1852) 129, tab. 5 
(sub nom. A. Afzelii); Bot. Mag. tab. 4764. 
A. Clusii (¿Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia (Addenda), xxxix.); Bot. Mag. 
tab. 5250. 
Australian Fungi, received principally from Baron F. vos MUELLER 
and Dr. R. ScuomBURGK. By the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., 
F.L.S. 
[Read January 18, 1872.] 
THE different fungi which are here characterized have been re- 
ceived sometimes in single specimens, sometimes in more or less 
numerous collections through a series of nearly twenty years. 
Many of them are either identical with European species, or so 
nearly allied that with dried specimens only, unaccompanied by 
notes or drawings, it is impossible to separate them ; others are 
species which are almost universally found in tropical or subtro- 
pical countries ; while a few only are peculiar to Australia—or are 
undescribed species, mostly of a tropical type. The collection, on 
the whole, can scarcely be said to be of any great interest, except 
so far as geographical distribution is concerned, as the aberrant 
forms are few. 
Extreme conditions of weather are in general unfavourable to 
fungi, as their spawn is liable to be burnt up by drought, putri- 
fied by long-continued wet, or destroyed by frost. In the districts 
from which the greater portion have been derived, which are 
principally on the eastern and north-eastern regions, it may be 
safely concluded that we have a very fair sample of the mycology 
before us, though I believe that a great many curious things are 
still to be recorded from western Australia. I have appended the 
numbers under which the specimens were received, wherever it 
has been possible ; some numbers, however, have been omitted, 
either from their never having been transmitted, or because the 
