78 ON SOME FUNGI OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND QUEENSLAND, 



Tribe Piialloidei. 

 Young plants enclosed in a gelatinous globular volva, whicli 

 bursting allows the plant to assume its ultimate form ; liymenium 

 melting down with the spores into an olivaceous, often foetid 

 semifluid mass. 



Dictyophora, Fries. 

 Spores enclosed in a kind of net work. 

 D. multicolor, B. et Br., {n. sp.) this remarkably handsome fungus 

 attains the height of six or eight inches, is richly colored, 

 and adorned with a long netted veil, reaching half-way down 

 its stipes. Plant rare as yet, only having been met with in 

 one locality, Kedron Brook by Mrs. England. 

 D merulina, Berk., Eockingham Bay, Journ. Linn. 8oc., A^ol. K3, 

 Bot. 172. 



Phallus, Linn. 

 Pileus conical, perforated at the apex, deeply pitted. 

 P. calyptrafus, B. et Br., part of volva adhering to the pileus 

 gives a cap-like appearance to this fungus. Amongst grass 

 near Brisbane (Bailey). 

 P. , ? sp. n.. pileus one and a-half inch broad, orange? 



stipes lemon, and volva white, scent heavy, but not very 

 disagreeable, Brisbane (Thos. Weedon). 



AsEROE, Labill., 

 Pileus divided at the summit into radiating, simple or forked 



arms. 



A. rithra, Labill., pileus red, resembling somewhat in form a star- 

 fish, New England (C: Stuart), Brisbane Eiver (Mrs. Coxen). 



Clathrus, Mich. 

 Beautiful netted fungus resembling Ileodictyon. 

 G. crispus, Turp., amongst grass, Eockingham Bay, Journ. Linn. 



Soc, Bot. Vol. XIIL, p. 172. 

 G. pusillus, Berk., AV^ide Bay (Dr. E. P. Parker), 



