FUNGI. 



By J3e. M. C. COOKE. 



Jlerbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Polyporus sanguineus, Meyer. 



S.A. Everard Range. 

 Fomes ramosus. 

 Trametes gusapatus, B. 

 Lenzites striata, Fr. 

 Polysaccum australe. 



W.A. In sand, Victoria Desert (C. 58). 

 Geaster fimbriatus, Fr. 

 Geaster striatus, D.G. 



W.A., Eraser Range. 

 Geaster Drummondi, B. 

 Podaxis carcimonalis, Fr. 

 Stephensia arenivaga, Cooke and Masse, 

 No. 98, Dec, 1892. 

 Subo-lobose, irregular, or at length collapsed and cerebritorm 

 (4 to e'en!, diam.), pale, soft, becoming indurated, accumulating 

 particles of sand, which become closely adherent; gleba soft, 

 dirty-white, shrinking and becoming irregularly lacunose ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidea 8, irregularly clustered globose, smooth, hyal- 

 ine, 10 /i (liameter. 



S.A. On sandy soil, near Gamp 9. 

 Diploderma sabulosum, C. and M., op. cit. 



Subglobose, 2-3 cm. diam., pallid. External peridium thick, 

 subo-elatinous, collecting grains of sand, and becoming consoli- 

 dated into a firm subglobose ball. Inner peridium membraneous, 

 persistent, soon free within the outer hard shell, silvery white. 

 Capillitium radiating, consisting of parallel fibres. Gleba dirty- 

 white. Spores elliptical, smooth, 14 x 7 /x, pallid with a faint 

 tinge of ochre. 



W.A. On sandy soil, Victoria Desert. 



'Grevillea," vol. XXI., 



CHARACE^. 



By Dh. Nokdstbdt, of Lund. 



Chara succinota, Al. Br mm. 



S.A. Cootanoorina. 

 Nitella cristata, Al. Braun. 



W.A. 



Karoling. 



