GASTROMYCETES. 



Phalloideae. 



Phallus. 



347. Phallus multicolor, Berk and Br. Cooke, Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 

 ri78 (New South Wales and Queensland). Stem and pileus together 6 inches 

 long. Pileus 1^ inch high, more than 1 inch broad below, conical, tapering 

 upwards so as to be less than ^ inch broad above, irregularly crinkled-lacumose, 

 covered with the Olive-brown (Dauthenay, pi. 299, Ton. 4) gleba, attached at 

 its summit to the pinky-orange edge of a compressed orifice, ^ inch broad, which 

 opens into the stem, inner surface of pileus pinkish and rugulose, substance of 

 pileus thin. Veil dependant, 1^^ inch long, Salmon-pink (pi. 74, Tons 1 to 3), 

 with fine meshes, attached to the stem ^ inch from its apex. Stem attenuated 

 below and also gradually upwards, finely lacunose, orangey-pink above shading 

 into whitish in the volva, hollow (nearly ^ inch in diameter), with about 3 tiers 

 of cells in the walls. Volva irregularly globose, 2 inches high, 1^ inch broad, 

 whitish with a tint paler than Pale Reddish Lilac (pi. 131, Ton 1) with a thick 

 jelly-like base. Spores 3'5xr8|U,. New South Wales: National Park, May, 

 1919 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 208; Herb., J. B. C, Formalin Specimen 

 307). (PI. i., fig. 1.) 



Jansia. 



348. Jansia rugosa, vide Lloyd, Synop. of known Phalloids, 1909 ; Clel. and 

 Cheel, Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlix., 1915, p. 203 (New South Whales). 

 We have collected further specimens of this rare phalloid as follows : — Mosman, 

 Svdney, August (near the same site as specimens previously recorded) ; Bradley 

 Head, Sydney, May, 1918, spores 34x1-8 /x (Formalin Sp. 300, Miss Clarke 

 Watercolour No. 192 — here reproduced as pi. ii., fig. 1 ) ; and North Dorrigo, 

 January, 1918, on a rotten log (Formalin Sp. 299), described at the time as 

 follows : — Whole plant 2 inches or more in height, with a musty but not foetid 

 smell. The volva elongated, cylindrical, f inch high, splitting into three or four 

 blunt irregular lobes. Stem and pileus 1:^ inch or considerably more in length, 

 the basal half inch of the stem whitish with obscure polygonal markings, the 

 rest tapering to a blunt point, gleba reddish-brown to pinkish attached along 

 the lines of an irregular meshwork on the stem corresponding to the polygonal 

 areas seen below. Spores rod-like, 3x1-5 /a. 



ASEROE. 



349. Aseroe rubra, Labill. Clel. and Cheel, Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, xlix., 1915, p. 208. New South Wales: Kendall, December; Sydney, 

 December. 



Nidulariaceae. 



Cyathus. 



350. Cyathus stercorareus, Detoni. Clel. and Cheel, Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, 1., 1916, p. 106. New South Wales : Kendall, December, spores 

 25 /i,; Cowra, December, spores thick-walled, 14 to 19 /*. South Australia: 

 Fullarton, Adelaide, July, spores thick-walled, spherical to oval, 18 yu,, 17-8x 142^, 

 30 X 25 IX, etc. 



Crucibulum. 



351. Crucibulum vulgar c, Tul. Clel. and Cheel, loc. cit., p. 107. New 

 South Wales : On pine cone. Moss Vale, June, spores 8 x 5 /u,. Victoria : On 

 rotting bark and on trunk of Eucalyptus hemiphloia, F, v. M., Craigie (E. J. 

 Semmens, Nos. 63 and 58), spores 7-5 to 10-5x3-6 to 4 /x. South Australia: 

 The Hermitage, October (Prof. Osborn), identified by Lloyd (No. 380), spores 



