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Ethel McLennan and Isabel Cookson : 



2y(xdeep, and ridges 1^ thick, entire spore 18-20/x diameter; paraphyses 

 simple, septate, clavate, 4-6^ diam. at tip, and filled with orange 

 granules. 



On the ground in open places or in moss, near Castlemaine, Vic.,, 

 and at Ringwood, near Melbourne, Vic. (E. McLennan), August and 

 September, 1921. 



Fig. 1. 



Plants of Lamprospora areolata, Seaver, var. Australis, 



var. nov. 

 Paraphysis x 750. 

 Portion of ascus x 750. 



The plate above described very closely resembles the form L. areo- 

 lata, Seaver (9 and 10), both in the size of the spore and the nature 

 of the spore marking. It, however, differs in its size, and in the 

 possession of a well-marked fringe at the margin of the apothecium 

 [Text fig. I., fig.I.l such a structure being entirely absent in the latter 



