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unfortunately they usually possess a most fetid odour. In drying 

 some care is required or both, their color and shape will be lost. 

 With the Ileodictyon the best mode is to fill the inside of the net 

 with some soft material while the plant is fresh, which may be 

 done by passing cotton wool through the meshes of the net and 

 then placing it in the sun to dry quickly. The other s^pecies 

 should be laid upon clean white paper in the hot sun and kept 

 frequently turned to prevent them adhering. By this quick 

 mode of drying the color and also the shape in great measure can 

 be ]3reserved. In the same localities we shall probably meet with 

 several species of Lentinus which are tough mushrooms, L.fasciatus 

 Br. is one of the most common in Queensland. In form it 

 resembles a wine glass, is of a brownish -light or dark colour, 

 and very shaggy. Its favorite position is on half-rotten logs. 

 These shaggy cups are sometimes large being five or six inches 

 and three or four across the top of cup. But the finest of the 

 genus is probably that found by Mr. Bailey in the scrub at the 

 Gap, Enoggera Creek, near Brisbane. It has since been named 

 L. cyathus, by Messrs. Berkely and Broome, and will be found 

 amongst those described by them in the transactions of the 

 Linnean Society, Vol. I., part VI., p. 399. This superb species 

 stands erect like a large wine glass, is about four inches across, 

 the gills are narrow and unbranched, about six inches high. The 

 stem is about seven lines thick. In similar localities logs are 

 often seen decorated with large paper-like lobes of various colors 

 these are species of Stereum, a buff colored fungus. Another 

 kind has finger-like lobes and is called by Messrs. Berkeley and 

 Broome S. radiato-fissum. It is sure to attract attention in any 

 place where it occurs. At the base of stumps will be noticed the 

 shiny bright species S. hirsutiim, Fr. The curious form of 

 mycelium called by the botanist Rhizomorpha Harrimanm, is often 

 abundant on old timber and is the mycelium of ^ylaria polyMorplia 

 Fr., and X rhytldophloia, Mont., two black club-shaped fungi, 

 the former sometimes two to three inches high. 



