BATTARREA PHALLOIDES (Plate 28). This plant has been 

 considered in full in our recent Tylostoma pamphlet. In western 

 Europe the genus is very rare, being known from a few stations in 

 England and only one in France. In Australia the genus is more com- 

 mon, and we have on two occasions received remnant specimens. How- 

 ever, Mr. Gill's are the first good specimens we have received from 

 Australia. He found these at Tunby Bay, on the west coast of Spen- 

 cer's Gulf, South Australia. They grew in the sand hills near the coast 

 under "shed-oak" trees. Air. Gill states they were fairly abundant but 

 he has never seen them elsewhere. The volva was deeply buried in 

 the sand. The occurrence of Battarrea phalloides "fairly abundant" 

 at any station is a matter of great interest, for while the genus Bat- 

 tarrea is widespread, the individuals are usually rare. 



LYCOPERDON SUBPRATENSE. 



We have received from W. X. Suksdorf some young specimens 

 which are the first we have seen with a cortex. This is exactly the 

 same as in the European plant, Lycoperdon pratense, and as the Amer- 

 ican plant only differs 

 from the European in 

 having colored capillit- 

 ium we doubt if it 

 should have a distinctive 

 ^ name even as a form. 

 gji Of much more interest 

 jfiB to us, however, than the 

 Pa name, is the distribution 

 W of the plant. It is 

 W curious that this species, 

 one of the very common 

 F '9- 13 - species of Europe and 



Australia, should occur in our country only at a few stations on the At- 

 lantic coast and again at a few stations on the Pacific coast, and is ap- 

 parently absent from all the vast extent of intermediate territory. The 

 English mycologists are just beginning to find out that it grows in Eng- 

 land and an article recording it as new to the flora (under the alias 

 Lycoperdon depressum) recently appeared in one of their journals. 

 It is undoubtedly a frequent plant in England. I have received it from 

 three English collections and it can be found at the British Museum 

 (misnamed) collected by an English botanist (unknown), evidently 

 ong ago. Our figure (129) made from Mr. Suksdorf s specimens 

 will show the nature of the cortex and the section shows the sharp linl 

 iemarkation between the gleba and sterile portion, which is the 

 :rong character of Lycoperdon pratense. 



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