864 RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. J., 



Penshurst (E. Cheel; June, 1907); Colo Vale (E. Cheel; August, 

 1908); Leura (A. A. Hamilton and T. Steel; April, 1908); Lane 

 Cove (A. A. Hamilton; August, 1909); Thirroul (J. B. Cleland; 

 April, 1909; no cystidia seen); Cheltenham and Hornsby (A. A. 

 Hamilton; May, 1910); Lilyvale (A. A. Hamilton; June, 1910); 

 Hawkesbury River (J. B. Cleland; April, 1910); Erina (J. Staer; 

 May, 1910); on dead wood, Milson Island (J. H. Cleland and E. 

 Cheel; July, 191-J); Grose Vale (Miss Campbell, No.25; Septem- 

 ber, 1912); on fallen log, Kurrajong Heights (J. B. Cleland; 

 August, 191-2): Hill Top (E. Cheel and J. B. Cleland; October, 

 1913); Wellington (J. B. Cleland; October, 1914); Hornsby, on 

 Pullericba flexilis {W . F. Blakeley; August, 1915); Kew (J. B. 

 Cleland; October, 1915); Willoughby (A. G. Hamilton); near 

 Adelaide (J. B. Cleland; 1898). There are also specimens in 

 the National Herbarium, from Tasmania, collected by W. H. 

 Archer. 



Stekeum (Hymenoch^te) villosum Lev., (syns., II. pJueum, 

 H. spadiceum, and //. strigosum of Berkeley^ Lloyd. Lloyd 

 states (Letter No.46) that this species is the analogue in the 

 East of S. tahacinum. 



Tliis is a common species in the neighbourhood of Sydney, 

 with a rich dark brown, hairy, somewhat zoned pileus, and a 

 duller brown hymenium. The cystidia are dark brown, acumin- 

 ate, 43-70 X 7-»-5//,, up to 13-5/* at the base. Hawkesbury Kiver 

 (J. B. Cleland; May, 1915); Tuggerah, on under side of fallen 

 log (J. B.C.; October, 1914); Milson Island, Hawkesbury Hiver 

 (J. B.C.; November, 1914); Stanwell Park (J. L. Boorman; June, 

 1902); Lane Cove (A A. Hamilton; August, 1909). 



Peniophoka. 



Peniophoka cinekea Fries. — This species has been recorded 

 by Cooke for Victoria. We have Kew South Wales specimens, 

 srowinjr on the bark of small, dead branches, which Lloyd 

 suggests may be this species. Our plants form effused, pale 

 greyish, ashy patches, about an inch in extent. Ihe hymenium 

 is finely tuberculated, and cracks. There are rough, somewhat 

 club-shaped, colourless cystidia 25 x 8-5/^; and the spores are 



