46 On the Fungi Groiving in Mines. 



Should the conglomerates on the two continents prove to 

 be stratigraphically identical, they will furnish excellent 

 bench-marks for working out the comparative geology of 

 the two regions. 



Examples of the striated stones from Wooragee, are placed 

 in the Technological Museum for inspection. 



Art. IY. — On the Fungi Groiuing in Mines. 

 By Henry Thos. Tisdall, F.L.S. 



[Read May 12, 1887.] 



Part II. 



In accordance with my promise, I visited Walhalla during 

 the Easter holidays, in order to secure some fresh specimens 

 of Fungi from the Long Tunnel Mine. Mr. Ramsay Thomson, 

 the manager, gave me every facility for exploring the mine ; 

 but warned me that the fresh timber and inci'eased ventilation 

 would greatly impede, if not entirely destroy, my chances of 

 success. 



I arrived on Thursday afternoon, and as the next day 

 would be a holiday. Good Friday, I was only allowed to 

 visit number three level. 



This tunnel was dry and very warm, and I found the 

 managers assertion was quite correct ; for instead of having 

 to stoop or ahnost crawl, as formerly, amongst half rotten 

 timber, crushed down to less than three feet by the su]3erin- 

 cumbent rock masses, I found upright seven-foot posts 

 supporting a good roof, the whole being well slabbed and 

 made very comfortable for every one except myself, as, alas, 

 fungi were apparently things of the past. After traversing 

 nearly a thousand feet of the level, I was rewarded by 

 finding a partly deserted nook, with roof and sides fairly 

 covered with fungi. Hyphomycetes hung from the cap 

 timbers, their fleecy masses taking innumerable shapes, the 

 commonest being like a huge pear made of snow, hanging 

 by a long thin dark stem. Amongst these I discovered a 

 very pretty agaricus ; it hung from the roof by means of a 

 number of fine thread-like fibres, springing from abort the 



