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apiculus, 7 to 9x5-2 to 7 5 /x. Partly buried under sand, September, 1920, 

 May, 1921. 



356. Sccotiitm coarctatmn, Berk. Cooke, Handb. Austr. I^'ungi, Xo. 1219 

 (Western Australia). We came upon this species at Narrabri in June, 1919. 

 and the identification has been confirmed by C. G. Lloyd (No. 528). Lloyd 

 points out that this is probably the first collection made since the type was found 

 and that the specimens agree exactly with the type and Berkeley's figure of it. 

 We described the specimens when fresh as follows: — Whitish, somewhat quadri- 

 lateral but broader (i- inch +) above than below (^- inch — ) ; stem short, whitish. 

 continued to the top of the pileus ; substance pallid greyish-brown ; 

 spores whitish, smooth, 52 to 7 /*; a peculiar strong fragrant smell (the type 

 is described as strong-scented). 



Chlamydopu.s. 



357. Chlamydopus Meyenianus, Berk. Clel. and Cheel, loc. cit., p. 109. 

 South Australia : Miller Creek, between Mount Eba and North-South Railwa\- 

 Line, August, spores yellow-brown, spherical, finely rough, 64 to 75 /x ( T. D. 

 Campbell ) . 



Phellorina. 



358. Phellorina Delestrei, Dur. and Mont. Lloyd, Lycoperd. of Australia, 

 p. 10, pi. 27; Clel. and Cheel, Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1., 1916, p. 110. 

 We have a further Australian specimen obtained by Mr. T. D. Campbell at 

 Miller Creek, between Mount Eba and the North-South Line, in Central Aus- 

 tralia, August, 1921. Our plant has a conically rooting stem, surrounded by 

 compacted sand, extending 2 inches below the ground surface ; spores round or 

 a little irregular, yellow-brown, smooth, 64 to 7 ii. 



359. Phellorina anstralis, Berk. Syn., Xylopodium australe, Berk. Lloyd. 

 Lycop. of Austr., p. 11, fig. 7. We have received, through Prof. Osborn, a 

 specimen collected by Capt. S. A. White in Central Australia. The plant is 

 somewhat turbinate, 1^ inch high and \\ inch wide, pallid, somewhat irregularly 

 rugose above and contracted into a short stem below which is surrounded by a 

 collar, probably the remains of the volva. Spores rough, 5 to 6 /x. Colour of 

 spore mass a little lighter than Dresden Brown (pi. xv.). Lloyd describes his 

 specimen as having a bright ochraceous gleba, but in our specimen the colour is 

 decidedly darker. 



360. Phellorina strohilina, Kalcli. Syn., Areolaria strohilina, Kalch. 

 Cooke, Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1318, Queensland; Xylopodium ochrolcnciim. 

 Cke. and Massee, Cooke, loc. cit., No. 1324, Queensland. We have a small 

 specimen, of which the locality has not been noted but is probably Central South 

 Australia, which agrees exactly with the plate (27, fig. 3) given by Lloyd in his 

 Lycoperdaceae of Australia. The peridium, 1 inch in diameter and f inch high, 

 is broken up into thick angular scales. The stalk is 2\ inches long, slightly 

 curved, attenuated upwards, \ inch below and three-sixteenths inch thick above, 

 clothed with adpressed scales, their free edges upwards. The spores are pale 

 brown, warty, rather irregular, 5 to 7 /x. The following have been identified 

 for us as Phellorina strohilina by C. G. Lloyd. We have collected these large 

 specimens on four occasions in the same locality, twice evidently from the same 

 mycelium, in May. September, and October, after heavy rain. None of our 

 specimens were mature. The largest measured 11| inches high, of which 

 6? inches were above ground. The peridium was oval, 44 inches high and 3 inches 

 wide, white, covered with large peeling ligulate scales, adherent below at various 

 levels and recurved and reflexed above where they have split ofif. The peridial wall 

 was 1^ inch thick, white, surrounding the gleba mass, which was slightly irregularly 



