BY J. B. CLELAND AND K. CHEEL. 859 



CoPRiNus HEMEROBius Fries. — The following has been found 

 on the ground at Neutral Bay. Cap up to 1^ inches, convex, 

 umbonate, umbo light brown, ribs greyish-white, often bifurcate 

 at the edge Gills white, then black. Stem up to 3 inches 

 high, white, slightly attenuated upwards, hollow. Spores egg- 

 shaped, 8 "6 X 7/x, 7 X 6/x. It is also quite common in the Domain 

 during the month of June. Spores 7-9 x 6-7/>i. 



CoPRiNUS sp.(l). — Resembles C. radiafiis, but the spores are 

 larger; and there are scattered hairs on the cap and stem. When 

 young, it is the size of a large pin's head, conical, pale brown, 

 apex darker, slightly striate, later expanded. Stem white, 

 h inch long. Stem and cap with scattered, minute hairs. Spores 

 10-4-12 X 7/i. On horse-dung, Manly, April 4th, 1915. (Herb. 

 J. B. Cleland. Formalin-specimen, No 90). 



CoPRiNUS sp.(2).— Small, conical, then convex, finall}' more 

 expanded. Woolly-white, then greyish. Slightly ribbed, very 

 thin. Stem up to 1 inch. Spores oval, 8-5-9 x5/jt. On cow- 

 dung, Adelaide, September 22, 1913. Covered with white down. 

 On cow dung at Neutral Bay, July 27, 1913. Spores black, 

 8 X 3-5/x. 



Thelephorack^. 



Craterellus cornucopioides L. — Recorded by us as new for 

 New South Wales, in Journ. Proc. Hoy. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1913, 



p. XV. 



Lachnocladium congestdm Berk. — Cooke records this species 

 (as Thelephora conyesta) for Victoria, Queensland, and New South 

 Wales. Lloyd has kindly identified specimens for us, which, he 

 says, agree exactly with his photograph of the type. He adds : 

 "I made the spores of the type 'smooth, globose, 8-10 micr., 

 pale-coloured.' These spores I make 'pale-coloured,' not 'purplish- 

 brown,' and almost smooth." The plant is common in the 

 neighbourhood of Sydney, on bare, damp ground, such as foot- 

 paths. We have collected it at Neutral Bay, and at Waterfall, 

 in April; and also at Milson Island, Hawkesbury River. The 

 Neutral Bay plants, which Lloyd has seen, are gregarious, and 



