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of some of the plants must have been as large as tea-plates, and 

 stood out like white sauceFs, or, in places, like isolated masses of 

 snow on the hillsides. L. suhclypeolaria was met with for the 

 first time. The figure given in Grevillea (xix., PI. 180, fig. A) is 

 a good representation, by which it can be easily recognised. The 

 plants grew abundantly in fields in groups, from Byron Bay to 

 Tweed Heads. The stems are rather shoi't, the cap slightly 

 striate, the whole plant soft to the touch and, a featvu'e not 

 mentioned in the original description, the flesh turns reddisli 

 when cut. The delicate, filmy L. licmophora was found in brush 

 at Murwilhnnbah; also L.felina, or a .species close to it, on the 

 roots of a fern in a shade-house. The Lepiote figured as pro- 

 bably a dark form of L. crisfata (Agric. Gaz. of N. S. Wales, Feb. 

 1916, PI. iii., f.-t) was also met with, growing amongst grass; its 

 spores were 7 to 9 x 4"2/x in size. The finding of tliis form at 

 two such sundered districts as Sydney and Murwillumbah shows 

 its constancy, and suggests that it is not a form of L. cristata, 

 but a distinct species. Two other Lepiotes, at present unidenti- 

 fied, were also met with, viz., a delicate white one flecked with 

 brown scales, and a golden one with an elongated cap. The 

 typical, white-capped mushroom, Psalliota campestris, was seen at 

 Byron Bay and Murwillumbah; at the latter place also P. sp. 

 (gills remaining j^allid, and not tui^ning rich pink). The follow- 

 ing were also noted: — Coprinus micaceus (Byron Bay, Mur- 

 willumbah), Coins hiruditiosus (Byron Bay), Panceolus ovatus 

 (Byron Bay), Schiziqyhyllum commune (Murwillumbah), and 

 Cantharcllns foliolum (Murwillumbah). — They also exhibited 

 specimens of a Psalliota common in the Sydney district, with a 

 remarkably strong smell resembling that of iodoform, and which 

 they have provisionally called P. iodoform,is. 



Mr. E. Cheel reported that, since recording the various forms 

 of Hardenbergia (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. xL, 1915, p.722), 

 specimens of H. monophylla Benth., var. alba, a trailing variety 

 with pure white flowers, had been found in the Jamieson Valley 

 by Mr. A. L. Bennett, this being a third locality, widely separated 

 from the two previously known. He also exhibited a cux'ious 



