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 WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 1907. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, June 31st, 1907. 



Mr. A. H. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 22 Vols., 100 Parts or Nos., 21 

 Bulletins, 3 Report, 38 Pamphlets, and 2 Portraits received from 

 69 Societies, ifec, and 2 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited a specimen of Cojyrinus comatus Fries, 

 which he had found to be common on grass lawns in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Sydney, and in other localities in the Port Jackson 

 district, in June and July. Ic is an edible fungus, in great 

 request on the Continent and in America. In decay, it melts 

 into an inky black fluid. It should be collected for edible purposes 

 whilst the gills are white or pink. The species has not previously 

 been recorded from New South Wales, so far as the exhibitor 

 could ascertain. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited examples of the curious Horse-hair Fungus, 

 first recorded by Baron von Mueller as Marasmius equi-crinis 

 F.v.M. [Frag. xi. 1880, p.90 (not 80 as indexed)], by some authors 

 quoted as Marasmius cri7iis-equi Muell. From a superficial 

 resemblance to the lichen Alectoria Fremontii Tuck., it had been 

 erroneously regarded as representing an allied species and 

 described as A. australiensis Knight. The specimens exhibited 

 were from Coomera, N. S.W. (Rev. F. R. M. Wilson), but other 

 examples had been examined from the Upper Richmond River, 

 N. S.W. (Mr. Fred. Turner, F.L.S.). The attention of possible 

 collectors was called to the fact that the only perfect specimens 

 known seem to be those in the Berkeley Herbarium, Kew 

 Gardens. 

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