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ia rough places of the mountain Boschberg, in East Somerset, 

 Cape Colony, amongst Acacia thickets, where it was found by Julius 

 Tuck, formerly Prefect of the Botanic Garden, and sent by Mr. 



MaoOwan, Professor in Gill's 

 College, Somerset East, a dili- 

 gent collector of the Fungi in his 

 neighbourhood. The genus is 

 clearly quite distinct from 

 Lysurus, to which it is allied. 



2. Macowania, Kalchb. — 

 Peridium epigaeous, stipitate, 

 fleshy; stem within reaching 

 to the apex, distinct below, 

 surrounded above by the caver- 

 nose hymenium, which is free 

 and decurrent below ; sporo- 

 phores bearing two globose, 

 hyaline, slightly tuberculate 

 spores. 



AI. agaricina, Kalchb. — 

 Peridium hemispherical, even 

 above, dingy, of a dirty brown, 

 produced below into a short, 

 stem-like, smooth white process 

 which penetrates up to the apex 

 of the peridium, and is sur- 

 rounded above by the large cells 

 of the hymenium, which are 

 below much elongated and 

 project beyond the peridium, 

 their apertures open to the air 

 and decurrent. Odour strong, 

 like that of Garlic ; spores 

 rather large, globose ; epispore 

 thick, slightly tuberculate. 

 The genus is clearly allied to Gautiera, but has a distinct peridium 

 above. 



In a subsequent note (Gard. Chron., July 29th) Mr. Berkeley 

 adds, " We have received a letter from the E-ev. G. Kalchbrenner, in 

 which he proposes to substitute for Macowania the generic name of 

 Hypochanum." [A change is desirable, for Prof. Oliver has already 

 published a genus of Compositce under the former name.] 



^oticc^ of 25ooh^. 



Australian Orchids. By R. D. Fitzgerald, F.L.S. Part I. Sydney, 



N. S. Wales. (Folio.) 



The author of the " Flora Australiensis," in some general remarks 

 on Orchideae, expresses dissatisfaction with the necessarily incomplete 

 way in which a family so difficult to manipulate in the dry state 



