50 ON" SOME FUNGI OF NEW SOUTH "WALES AND QUEENSLAND, 



WEDNESDA.Y, FEBEUAEY 25th, 1880. 



The President, the Eev. J. E. Tenison-AVoods, F.G.S., F.L.S., 

 &c., in the Chair. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



The Eev. Benedict Scortechini, Logan Eiver, Queensland, and 

 James Garland, Esq., AVagga Wagga. 



DONATIONS. 



Philosophical Society of South Australia, Transactions and 

 Proceedings for 1879. 



Mitthelungen aus der Zoolog. Station zu Neapel. 



Eev. Dr. Woolls — Lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom. 



The President — Three Vols. Horticultural Magazine, Papers 

 and Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of Tasmania, Nos. o and 8 

 of the Natural History Eeview. 



papers read. 



On some of the Fungi of New South Wales and Queensland. 



By Eev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., L.S.'&c, &c.. President 



of Linn. Soc, N.S.W., and F. M. Bailey, F.L.S. , Cor. Mem. 



E. S. Tas., &c., &c. 



Whatever attention has been paid to the botany of Australia 

 by such illustrious and eminent scientific men as Eobt. Brown, 

 Hooker, Bentham and Baron Mueller, we must admit that there 

 are some departments of the science which have been comparatively 

 neglected. These are notably the Mosses, Lichens, and Fungi. 

 The latter have never been approached in a sjstematic manner 

 by any author, A list was published in the Journal of the 

 Linnean Society in 1873, Vol. XIIL, p. 155, by the Eev. J. M. 

 Berkeley, which dealt with specimens sent to Europe from time 



