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reddish-fawn, spores pear-shaped, 10 x4-5/x; Hawkesbury River, 

 N.S.W. (June, 1912), spores ll-5-12o x 5-5/x; Hawkesbury River, 

 N.S.VV. (May, 1913), very pale fawn or brown, sometimes with 

 a yellowish tint, spores 9x 5'5/x; New South Wales, buff-coloured, 

 spores 8-5-10-4 x 4-4/x; Mt. Lofty, S.A. (July, 1914), reddish-fawn, 

 spores 10-4 X 5/a. Another Mt. Lofty specimen, taken at the 

 same place on the same date, was yellowish-brown, and the spores 

 appeared as "elongated rods, 6-10 x 2-2 -S/x." A reddish-fawn 

 specimen from the Hawkesbury River (May, 1913), with spores 

 10x4-5/x, has the ultimate ends of the branches more divided 

 and less knobby. 



Clavaria FORMOSA Pers. — The discrepancies in the descrip- 

 tions of this species, given by various authors, are rather dis- 

 concerting. Thus Massee places it amongst the Ochrosporse, and 

 gives the spores as ochraceous, 9 x 3-4/^; whilst the same author 

 later (Brit. Fungi and Lichens) states that the spores are colour- 

 less, and 1 2-1 5 X 5-6/ui. The coloured figure in the last-named work 

 also differs from that given by Cooke (Aust. Fungi). Whatever 

 be the explanation of these differences, the plants we have met 

 with, and placed under C. formosa, are identical with Cooke's 

 plate. Microscopically, the spores also show a faint ochraceous 

 colouration, perhaps explaining why some authors consider them 

 as colourless, and others as tinted. The spores of our specimens 

 measure 7-9, occasionally ll.x4-5-5/x. Hawkesbury River (May 

 and June); Newington (June). A pale yellow form found at 

 Newington (spores 7-8-5 x 4-2//), close to pinkish-fawn and 

 reddish-ochre plants, may perhaps be C. aurea, which was col- 

 lected at Pennant Hills, Parramatta, during the Challenger 

 Expedition. (Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., xvi., p.38, 1877). 



Clavaria rugosa Bu11.(?). — The following, found on several 

 occasions, approaches closely to C. rugosa, and is at present best 

 placed under it. It differs, apparently, in the spores not being 

 warty, in the apex often becoming yellow-brown, and in a slight, 

 foetid smell. Up to 1| inches high, clubs simple or with several 

 irregular prongs, or occasionally dividing into two near the base, 

 apex blunt, occasionally slightly rugose but usually not so, solid, 



