868 RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN FUNGI^ i., 



pure white or creamy- white, apex often yellow-brown, somewhat 

 mealy. A definite, slightly foetid smell (when kept in a bottle, 

 a strong, rotten-cabbage smell). Spores colourless, subspherical, 

 7/>i, 8-5 X 7/i. North Bridge, Sydney (April and June, 1916); 

 near shady rock, Hawkesbury River (May, 1916). Specimens 

 collected at Milson Island, in June and July, 1912, with thick- 

 walled, colourless spores 9-11x7-7-5//., appear to be the same 

 species. Previously recorded for Wentworth Falls, by R. T. 

 Baker (These Proceedings, 1906, 720;. 



Clavaria muscoides Linn. (1).— The following, beautiful little 

 species agrees with the description of C. muscoides, save that 

 the spores are smaller. Barely 1 inch high, furcate three or four 

 times, usually unequally, ultimate segments short and blunt to 

 subulate and blunt, orange-yellow, spores colourless, spherical, 

 2 8 3-5/x. Amongst moss, under Kunzea bushes, on clay soil, 

 Lane Cove River, June, 1916 (D.I.C., Watercolour, No.68). 



Clavaria cinerea Bull. — Baker (These Proceedings, 1906, 

 719); Cheel [Report But. Gardens, Sydney, 1910 (1911), 11]. 

 At Neutral Bay and Mosman, Sydney, a grey Clavaria has been 

 frequently met with. Apart from the cinereous colour, the most 

 constant feature is the size of the spores, which are spherical to 

 subspherical, and 9x7 5//., 8-5-10-4/x, etc. Some specimens are 

 simple, swollen, rugose clubs, several growing close together, in 

 appearance rather resembling C. iii(equ(dis ; others are more 

 slender, with a few branches near the tip like a stag's horn; still 

 others, from a short, thick trunk, exhibit large, blunt, rugose 

 and swollen branches; whilst still others resemble the plate in 

 Massee's " P>ritish Fungi and Lichens," though the colour is 

 more dingy. The colour, locality, and spore-measurements, 

 together with gradations between specimens, all indicate that 

 one species comprises all our specimens. Massee, in his work 

 last quoted, supports this view when he states, that the species 

 is very variable, and that the spores are 7-9/x in diameter. In 

 his " British Fungus Flora," the spores are given as 5-6 x o/x, 

 whilst Cooke gives them as 8-10 x 5-6/x. Our specimens are some- 

 times hollow. Neutral Bay and Mosman (April, June, Novem- 



