866 RECORDS OF AUSTRAI.IAN FUNGI, i., 



Tremella mksenterica Retz.— New South Wales plants col- 

 lected by us have spherical spores, 9/* in diameter. 



Tremekla fusiformis Berk. — Plants of this species, found on 

 a dead trunk, at Mt. Irvine, in June, 1916, have been identified 

 by C. G. Lloyd. White, with irregular flat lobes. Spores ap- 

 parently 7 X 3"4/y.. 



Seismosarca hydrophora Cooke. — Specimens have been 

 kindly identified for us by C. G. Lloyd. Both came from the 

 Sydney district, one from Mosman (July). Spores apparently 

 granular, elongated, 13'5-14:'5 x 7/x. 



We are unable, as yet, to place several other species belonging 

 to this family. These include (1) a pale coral-pink, tremelloid 

 species, with sausage-shaped spores 15*5-20 x 6-2-6/x, on trunk, 

 Bulli, May, 1914; (2) a pale yellow, frondose, jelly-like species, 

 ■with spores 7-8 x 4/i, Mosman, October, 1914. 



Family C L a v a r i e iE. 



Cooke records for Australia, under this family, one species of 

 Sparassis (N.S.W.), 41 species of Clavaria (11 for N.S.W.), and 

 6 species of Calocera (none for N.S. W.), the latter genus being, by 

 some authors, placed in the 2'remellinece. Massee (Brit. Fungus- 

 Flora) records for Britain one species of Sparassis, 10 of T'yphula, 

 43 of Clavaria, 6 of PislUlaria, and 2 of Pterula. 



Clavaria botrytes Pers. — This species, one of the commonest 

 of Australian Clavarias, easily recognised by its cauliflower-like 

 appearance, and reddish-fawn or buflf colour, is recorded by 

 Cooke for all the Australian States except South Australia, in 

 which State, however, one of us has frequently seen it. It 

 seems to vary somewhat, both as to the degree of division of its 

 ultimate segments, and as to its colour (from a pale fawn to a 

 reddish or yellowish fawny-buflP). Massee, in his " British 

 Fungus-Flora/' gives the spores as 8 x 5//., but in his later work, 

 " British Fungi and Lichens," as 12-14 x 5-6//, whilst Cooke gives 

 them as 12-15 x 6/ji. Our specimens comprise the following : — 

 Hawkesbury River, N.S.W., (May, 1913), plant pale yellowish, 

 spores pear-shaped, llx6"5/x; Terrigal, N.S.W. (June, 1914), 



