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or kidney-shaped, centre sometimes a little depressed or some- 

 times with a slight acute umbo, later more flattened, faintly 

 striate, villous looking, pale brownish-straw to orangey- 

 brown. Gills adnexed, almost free, moderately distant, 

 crenulate, colour of cap. Stem \ to \ inch long, slender, 

 central or a little excentric or sometimes nearly lateral, 

 attenuated downwards, sometimes with some whitish mycelium 

 at the base, slightly brownish. Spores yellow-brown micro- 

 scopically, oval, 7 to 9 x 5 to 6'5 /x. 



On fallen logs or bark of dying Eucalyptus (E. piperita). 

 Neutral Bay, Sydney, March, April, May, July (D. I. C, 

 Watercolour No. 17). 



Colour tints noted : — Pileus and gills near brown-pink, 

 No. 297, Ton 1, the gills warmer. 



46. Naucoria semiflexa, Berk, and Broome: Ann. Nat. 

 Hist., n. 1246; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 509a; Massee: Brit. 

 Fung. Flora, ii., p. 156. — "We refer the following to this 

 species, with Cooke's illustration of which it agrees: — 

 Pileus \ inch in diameter, convex, waxy-brown flecked with 

 white scales, drying to a pale yellowish-brown. At first the 

 whole plant is covered with a whitish meal and the edge of 

 the pileus is a little turned in ; later the meal is left covering 

 the cap and stem. Gills pallid brownish and adnate when 

 very young; then becoming somewhat ventricose and adnexed 

 and reddish-brown to dingy cinnamon, edge finely serrate. 

 Stem about \ inch long, central, curved from its situation on 

 upright trunks, mealy-white, solid. Spores pale yellow-brown, 

 8 to 8"5 x 4'5 to 5 /x. 



On trunk of a living eucalypt. Bingham Springs, near 

 Bumberry (N.S.W.), September, 1916 (Herb., J. B. C, 

 Form. Sp., 237). 



Galera. 



47. Galera tenera, Schaeff. : t. 70, f. 6-8; Cooke: 

 Illustrs., pi. 461; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 144; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No, 284, fig. 26 (Vict., Tas.).— 

 The spores of our specimens are distinctly larger than the 

 measurements given by Massee (12 to 13 x 7 jm) for this 

 species. The stem also seems paler than the descriptions 

 would lead one to infer. We have found the spores of speci- 

 mens of G. tenera from California, identified by Prof. Peck, 

 to measure 13*8 to 15*5 x 8'5 to 10 ju,. These seem identical 

 in size and colour with spores from two collections found 

 on or near horse-dung at Adelaide in July, 1914. In these 

 two collections, however, our notes state that the stems are 

 "pallid whitish," and the formalin specimens show likewise 

 stems a little paler than our other specimens. Possibly the 

 Adelaide species is not the same as the New South Wales one, 



