860 RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI^, i., 



consist of numerous, separate individuals, each with a slender 

 stem, and several branches; whilst the Waterfall specimens, also 

 identified by him, form plants up to finch in diameter, showing 

 a thick, short, stem-like base, which expands into numerous 

 dendritic branches. The spores of the former were 8'5 x r)-2-7/v., 

 slightly irregular ; of the latter, pale brown microscopically, 

 10 X 7/ji, somewhat irregular and oval. Anothei" collection, 

 resembling the Neutral Bay specimens, showed shed spores 

 purplish, oval, knobby and spicular, 8-5 x V/x - the bases of these 

 plants were purplish, and the tips silvery-white; whilst, on 

 squashing specimens, there was a seminal smell. 



Thelephora dkntosa Berk.— Specimens of this species, grow- 

 ing under native shrubs and trees {Angophora Janceolata) at 

 Neutral Bay, have been identified by Lloyd, who states that the 

 species was originally described from Cuba; and he points out 

 that it is subincrusting, and sends up free pilei. which is peculiar 

 among the Thelephoras. The spores are vinous, irregular, 

 8-f; X Ifx. 



The[.ephora terrestris Ehrenb., {T. laciniata Pers.).— We 

 have met with this species, of which Lloyd has examined speci- 

 mens for us, on several occasions, and always iinder or close to 

 species of Pinus. It is unquestionably an introduced species, 

 and seems unable to exist apart from the introduced Pines. 

 Lloyd informs us that T. ladniata is a synonym. The plant is 

 recorded, under both names, by Cooke, for Victoria. We now 

 add New South Wales; we have seen specimens under Pinus at 

 Adelaide. The plants often occupy an area of several inches in 

 extent on the ground, or may encrust sticks or the bases of 

 stumps. Pine-needles are often incorporated in the growth. 

 The spores are very irregular, microscopically brownish, with a 

 large, oval, central " nucleus," 8-5 x 7/a. Richmond, N.S.W., 

 (August, 1912); Willoughby, Sydney (August, 1915); Randwick 

 (W. F. Blakely; January, 1911); Cheltenham (A. A. Hamilton; 

 February, 1911). 



Stereum caperatum l^erk. et M. — Specimens of this species 

 were recorded for the Tweed River by Berkeley (Journ. Linn. 



