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in these there is mig ees: a tinge of pale flesh-pink in the 
pret eo ycelium. In older specimens, which may extend 
abou 
» « t 
them in the form of small drops. ‘The spores of old specimens 
are also more deeply Peto (fulvous), so that the melee 
eventually becomes fro en brown to raw umber. 
dry the fructification is = exceedingly thin and super lg with 
a rather aa cobwebby margin. 
H m for a long time ‘sate, at length raised in shallow 
i Which. form irregular, angular pores or reticulations, 
(average 6 
laches borealis, (Burt) P. Henn. in Hedwigia xli, 1902, p. 
“Typical specimens of this plant, agreeing exactly with Burt’s OP 
cription and figures of the American. species, appeared on a hea 
ae os in Chiswick, - intervals from September until Ris 
mer 1916, again in the same place in Sep- 
praetoas is dikeanten ised by having the arms of the 
earl reheat the gleba of a beautiful pale reddish colour, 
which is reproduced andy in the coloured figure given by 
Murrill in Mycologia iv., Pl. LX VIII. 
There have been two previous records of species of Lysurus in 
this country. The first was found at Kidderminster, and 
referred by Rea to L. australiensis, Cke. & Mass.* His figur 
represents it as having arms of a yellowish-brown, but he describes 
the colour as_ reddish- sabe Another specimen found at 
Manchester by Mr. H. Murray had red arms, and was named by 
Lloyd L. iced Teck fe the descriptio ns of L. australiensis and 
Ly, Nohnalss be compared, it is obvious that the ey are ey 
ous. 
receptacle on 
The original denerenat of L. australiensis gives “ recep- 
taculo fusco,’? but as it was probably drawn up from dried 
material, little he se can be pveres 2 to this statement. Later 
descriptions, also, the most part, say little about the colour 
ACS pene iry as to this point was therefore sent 
to Dr. J. B. Cleland, of Sydney, who is working out the Basidio- 
mycetes of New South Wales. 
the Australian plant is —. entirely white, but tha h 
seen one large npn atte (4 in. high and 1 in. thick), in which 
the arms were orange, the bpoe? part of the stem paler orange, 
and the base whitish. There is also in the Kew Herbartam. 8 a 
* Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc: ii, 1903, p. 57. 
+ Lloyd, Syn. Phall. 1909, p. 40. 
