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ber); Gladesville (Miss Flockton; April, 1910); Leura (T. Steel; 

 November, 1911): Rookwood (Miss Spencer; July, 1910); Cook's 

 River (A. A. Hamilton; May, 1915). 



Clavaria stricta Pers.('?) — A very graceful specimen found 

 by Mr. Darnell-Smith, growing on wood, near Gosford, in August, 



1915, may be this species. Pale ochraceous spores were not 

 seen. The plant was orange-brownish, and showed a short stem, 

 from which numerous, ascending, slender, subulate branches 

 arose, which, at first, bifurcately branched several times, the 

 ultimate branches being about an inch long. The species is 

 recorded by Cooke for Victoria and New South Wales. 



Clavaria crispula Fries.- Pale orange plants, gathered on a 

 fallen trunk, at Mt. Irvine, in June, 1915, agree with the de- 

 scription given by Cooke (Handbook of Aust. Fungi, No. 1115) 

 of this species. The spores are colourless, 7 x 4*2/x. 



Clavaria in^equalis Miill. — Australian plants, which we have 

 met with on several different occasions, though approaching 

 most closely to C. incexpialis, also resemble in some points C. 

 fusiformis. They approach the former in being gregarious, and 

 only rarely subcsespitose, and in being a rich orange; and the 

 latter, in being hollow, and in having spherical, smooth spores, 

 Massee laying considerable stress on the ivarty spores of C 

 incequalis. Specimens collected under moist rocks, on the 

 Hawkesbury Ptiver, in November. 1914, and again in August, 



1916, may be described as follows :—Clavate, up to 2i inches high, 

 by \ inch thick, rich salmon-orange, the salmon tint becoming 

 more evident in drying; hollow, the inside pallid salmony- whitish, 

 the outer layer darker; sometimes bursting irregularly at the 

 top, with yellowish tips, leaving an irregular, trumpet-like open- 

 ing; spores smooth, spherical, 4-5-8/x in size; basidia with four, 

 occasionally two, sterigmata. A faint apricot-smell. Numerous, 

 fine specimens were collected also at Narrabeen, under moist 

 rocks, on January 1st, 1915. There are also specimens in the 

 National Herbarium, Sydney, collected at Berowra by Mr. A. H. 

 S. Lucas, in July, 1914, which were of a rich salmon pink colour 

 at first, changing to rich cream. 



