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oval, 3| inches x 2| inches, white and soft. The woody stem was 7 inches long, a 

 little constricted at the ground level (diameter, f inch), 1^ inch thick below the 

 peridium, H inch below the ground level, with a thick hard crust, brownish 

 tinted below the cuticle in the upper part, covered above ground with hrm ligulate 

 scales, firmer than on the peridium, white inside and moderately firm, solid, the 

 lower end rounded and connected with an indefinite mass of mycelium spreading 

 through the sand. Moderately strong smell. Younger specimens show some 

 points of difference. From one-third to one-quarter of the plant is below the 

 ground. The peridium is at first clavate. The ligulate scales are in some 

 adherent above by a broad base, sometimes an inch long, hanging down and 

 overlapping, contracting from the base to a sharp apex, up to 1^ inch long. 

 The scales on the stem appear more as coarse thick bands of fibrils. The wall 

 of the peridium is ^ inch to ^ inch thick. Sphores spherical, nearly smooth, 

 65 to occasionally 8 /a; some short threads, 32 to 48 /x thick, occasionally 

 apparently septate. Monarto South, South Australia. 



Battarea. 



361. Battarea phalloides, var. Stevenii, Fr. Clel. and Cheel, loc. cit., p. 111. 

 South Australia: Monarto South, May, volva of two layers, an outer thin crust, 

 darkish externally, and an inner thicker more fibrous layer ; Murray Bridge, 

 July (Mr. Ashby) ; Nankeri, on sandy rise in fallow. May (Prof. Osborn). 

 Western Australia: Kurrawang (Mrs. A. F. Cleland). 



POLYSACCUM. 



362. Polysaccum pisocarpium, var. crassipes, D. Cand. Clel. and Cheel, 

 loc. cit., p. 113. Queensland: Stradbroke Island, September. New South 

 Wales : Eulah Creek, Narrabri, June, stem 4 inches long, \^ inch thick, spores 

 shaggy-warty, 9 to 105 /x. South Australia : Mount Lofty, July, up to 4^ inches 

 high, often with several "heads"; Beltana, August, spores shaggy, 8 to 11 fx. 



363. Polysaccum pisocarpium (variety not identified). New South Wales: 

 Bullahdelah, August. 



Scleroderma. 



364. Scleroderma verrucosum,, Bull. Clel. and Cheel, loc. cit., p. 116. 

 New South Wales: National Park, May, spores shaggy, 105 to 12 ;«,; Sydney, 

 May, December. South Australia: Our record (in the above paper) of this 

 species for South Australia is doubtful, the plants being immature and perhaps 

 really S. flavidum. We have not recently found any specimens. 



365. Scleroderma flavidum,, Ellis. Lloyd, The Lycop. of Austr., etc., p. 14. 

 Clel. and Cheel, loc. cit., p. 114. New South Wales: Kendall, March and 

 December (latter specimens containing a nest of small ants). South Australia: 

 Murray River, unopened, doubtfully this species, spores dark brown, very shaggy, 

 12 to 15-5 /A, usually 14 yu,; locality not noted, spores densely echinulate, 13 to 

 17-5 (jl; Mount Lofty, July, spores shaggy, 7-2 to 10-7 /a; Kuitpo, May, spores 

 densely echinulate. 11 to 14 5 ^a. confirmed by Lloyd (No. 780). Victoria: 

 Ararat, May (E. J. Semmens, No. 91). 



366. Scleroderrtia flavidum, var. fenestratiim, nov. var. In our description 

 of some specimens of Scleroderma found in the Pilliga Scrub (Bot. of Pilliga 

 Scrub, Bull. 14, For. Comm. N.S. Wales, 1920, p. 19), we refer to the peridium 

 being supported on a fenestrated stem or root, sometimes several inches long. 

 As these plants grow in sandy soil, this probably enables the peridium to project 

 ab.ove the shifting sand. The fenestrated portion consists of broad, rugose, 

 often flattened, intercommunicating strands of mycelium, tailing off below into 



