854 RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN" PUNGT, i., 



scales, and proved very palatable. In the Milson Island speci- 

 mens, the spores measured IT'S x 10-11/x. 



CoPRiNUS ATRAMENTARius Fries. — Our specimens were col- 

 lected in June and July, 1907, in a plantation in the Botanic 

 Gardens, and are preserved in the National Herbarium under 

 Nos.55 and 64. Spores 5-8 x 4-6//. 



CoPRiNus EXTiNCTOHius Bull.- Specimens of this species were 

 collected on a manure-heap in the Botanic Gai'dens, in April, 

 1908, and recorded by one of us (E.G.), I.e. Spores 10-13 x 6-7/ia. 



CoPRiNUS FiMETARius Fries. — We have collected this species 

 on dung at Milson Island, in Ma,ich (spores 1 1-12 x 7-7'5ju). 

 Some large specimens, with yellowish-brown, crusty scales on 

 the top of the pileus, and with stems 5 inches long, and nearly 

 4 lines thick, growing on manure at Sydney, had spores 10-10 8 

 x7-7 2/xin size. The spores of specimens growing on dung at 

 Adelaide, in July, were 13'8x8/j.. Nari'abeen, January (spores 

 10-4-13-8x7-8-5/x). 



CoPRiNUS MiCACEUS Fries. — Recorded by Cooke, for Victoria 

 and South Australia. The species is common in New South 

 Wales, being found densely fasciculate at tl)e base of old stumps, 

 posts, telegraph-poles, etc. It is common in the Botanic Gardens 

 during the month of June. The spores are obliquely oval, dark 

 brown to blackish, 8-5 x 5'2-7/x. Milson Island, Hawkesbury 

 River, and Sydney. 



CoPRiNUS DELiQUESCENS Fries. — A species growing on a rotten 

 stick at Neutral Bay, Sydney, in March, agrees with the descrip- 

 tion and Cooke's plate of this species. Spores dark brown, 

 7-8-9 x 5-2-7/x. 



CoPRiNUS coNGREGATUS Bull. Specimens, resembling the 

 figures of this species, were obtained, growing amongst decaying 

 straw, at Milson Island, in July. Spores 12-13 x 7/x. 



COPRINUS SCLEROTTANUS, n.sp. — Several irregular-shaped scle- 

 rotia, about the size of mung-beans (1^-2^ lines diam.) were 

 found at Colo, Southern Line, under cow-dung, in March, 1914. 



