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subligneous, usually in two layers, each 1 to 3 mm. thick, the 
upper rich cream to light brown, the lower white. Stipe 
mesopodial, 5-15 mm. thick, 2-6 cm. long. Pores small, 
roundish or irregular, 2 to 3 mm. long. Spores abundant, 
cylindrical, 2x6 TN hyaline, smooth.’’—Lloyd. We have 
less than the size of peas, while other sclerotia are 
eps, varying in size from 2 to 7 cm. in 
ter. Some specimens dug up out of the ground 
at “Hil Top in February, 1913, show the formation of several 
minute sclerotia varying in size from 2x 4 mm. to á 
attached by ide rhizomorphs to decaying Eucalyptus 
stumps. The of specimens show that the spores 
germinate in vodiat Fo and that the hyphal strands absorb 
nutrient matter from decaying stumps, ultimately forming 
the sclerotia. In other specimens the sclerotia are soft and 
Spongy, and are being exhausted for the purpose of forming 
the Sporophore, as the surrounding soil is traversed by a mass 
of branching mycelial cords forming an indefinite AETR 
by th 
Sporophores, in various stages of development en 
l 
to mycelial cords arising from the sclerotia, have m 
examined from the following localities in New South Wales:— 
Killara and No ydney ( i May, 1904, and 
2e 1905); Hill Top, Main Southern Line (E. C., 
$ are also specim ens of air pnt in the 
Sia Recher: rium, Sydney, unattached to their sclerotia, 
Si the following localities: —Barber's Creek (J. H. Maiden, 
ecember, 1897); Wahroonga (W. c ver 
He: (Miss M. R. Otton, Mor 1905); Hurstville 
ac } June, 1910); Hornsby (P. Williams, April, 
OTHER SCLEROTIA. 
In addition to the above we have also examined several 
remarkable sclerotia, but so far their fruiting bodies have 
im emus They consist of:— ii) de 
very large sclerotia (pl. 11), somew 
Tesembling those of P. mylittae, found by W. 
Griffin, of Hurstville, rbd n the western suburbs of 
