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BATTAREA. 
224. Battarea phalloides, var. Stevenii; Lloyd: Joe. vua 
P. 11, pl. 28, figs. 2 and 3; Clel. and Cheel: loc. cit., p.11 
Cooke : Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1243 (W. A ustr.), dida as 
B. Muelleri, No. 1244 (S. Austr., and B. Tepperiana, No. 
1245 (Vict. ). —Baan Baa, New South Wales, stem up 12 
inches Me Mates upwards, very shaggy ; volva buried 
in the gro 
GEASTER. 
225. Geaster ates Lloyd: Mycol. Notes, No. 55, 
1918, p. 794, fig. 1196. —The type and cotype were found by 
Mrs. A. F. Cleland at Kalgoorlie in June, 1917. rh 
describes the species as follows: —‘‘Exoperidium rigid, in- 
curved when dry, cut into eight (in this specimen, also in the 
cotype) rather narrow lobes. Endoperidium scurfy, with a 
Age thick pedicel. Mouth protruding, strongly furrowed." 
add — "The single specimen of this plant presents a char- 
qa to separate it from others of the section (Rigida, Cfr. 
Myc. Notes, p. 317) to which it belongs. It has a 
pedicellate endoperidium. The colour is decidedly red- 
dish, but it grew in red soil, which no doubt has 
something to do with the colour.  Geasters are best defined 
in terms of others. This is Geaster Schmidelii as to size, 
pedicel, and mouth, but the exoperidium puts it in a different 
Section. Tt is Geaster striatulus EEE the endoperidium, 
which is pedicellate. As a matter of fact, it is probably the 
original of Geaster atrotulus. which was from Australia and 
not authentically known (Cfr. e Notes, p. 312), and which 
Was described as endoperidiu ‘subsessile.’ But it is 
entirely different from Ss Som striatulus in the sense of 
Hollés, E we have adopted and illustrated several times 
(Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 71, and Lycop. Austr., p. 16). 
226. S cid iron: Vitt. Lloyd Uo Dyeop.. of 
Austr., 1905, p. 10; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, 
No. 1964 (Viet., "dud Clel. and Cheel: Journ. Proc. 
Hoy. Soc. N.S. Wales xlix., 1915, p. 221.—Manildra, New 
South Wales, "po 1916, identified by C. G. Lloyd—spores 
finely rough, 3:4 to 4 p. 
227. Geaster vim Do Lycop. of aen r 
Chee à 
P 17, fig. 11; "ciis loc. ctt., p. 220; as 
hygrometricus, P. M bue Handb. Austr. Fungi, N 
1268 (W. Au ur s poe —Manildra, October, 1916, iden 
iv by Llo ays —eporee nearly smooth, 5'2 u; Dubbo, October, 
915—spores rough, 5'8 p; Mount t Lofty, South Australia, 
Say, 1914—spores rough, 4 to 6 p 
