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to time by Baron Mueller, Dr. E. Schomburgck, Dr. WooUs, 0. 

 Moore, &c., &c. This list formed with, that given in Hooker's 

 Tasmanian Flora our only Australian literature on the subject. 



For some years past one of us (Bailey) has devoted some 

 attention to collecting fungi in Queensland. These have been 

 regularly forwarded to 0. E. Broome, of Bath, a notable authority 

 on the Order, who with the Rev. J. M. Berkeley has already 

 published a paper in the transactions of the Linnean Society of 

 London, containing about one hundred species, several of which 

 are new. Another paper by the same authorities is in course of 

 preparation, which will be found to contain a far greater amount 

 of novelties — but while one of us has been working up the 

 Queensland species the other has taken advantage of many 

 opportunities for observing, collecting and classifying specimens 

 of this most interesting order in New South Wales. We 

 purpose therefore to furnish a contribution to Australian Mycology, 

 and so far as possible to popularize the subject with a view to 

 stimulate enc^uiry. To accomplish this, we shall give short 

 notes on the genera and the more remarkable species. Thus 

 it is hoped that they will for the most part be easily recognized 

 without recourse to an extensive library. 



Before proceeding to the enumeration of such species as we 

 are acquainted with, a few general observations may be of interest. 

 It might be thought that in the dry and arid plains of Australia 

 there would not be many favourable localities for fungi, which 

 for the most part ajffect moist and shady situations. For a great 

 many genera and species this is true. But rotten trunks and 

 decaying trees are found almost everywhere, and burnt surfaces 

 with much charred wood are also very common in Australia since 

 bush fires are of yearly occurrence. A very large tribe also is 

 almost exclusively confined to the bark of trees, that is the 

 Polyporei, which are amply represented in the continent. In our 

 open pastures at various times of the year, and especially where 

 sheep have been fed, the common mushroom, Agaricus campestris, 



