Ple oval, surrou 
314 
245. Xylaria myosurus, Mont.(?)—Lloyd has identified 
sg et (No. 269), collected on a rotten trunk at Katoomba 
n December, 1916, as probably immature examples of this 
"eun Conidiospores 7 to 104 x 3-5 to 4 p, dagger-shaped. 
246. aria faveolis.—Lloyd, Xylaria Notes, i., 1918, 
p. 9, figs. nu 1216.—Lloyd has identified specimens for us 
(No. 440), referred to and figured in "e above Notes. The 
plants were collected at Dorrigo in Janu 1918—asci about 
10 x 6 p, spores 10:4 x 4 p, blackish, one side a little Ware: 
247. Xylaria hypoxylon, Grev.: Fl. Edin., 355; 
Syll., 1260; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1547 (Q'land). 
—Lloyd has identified as probably the conidial form of this 
species | peii (No. 268) found at the base of a dead tree- 
fern at Katoomba in December, 1916—conidiospores 8:5 x 2 p, 
elongated, one end more pointed. 
SARCOXYLON. 
248. Sarcorylon Le Rati Kinase ud Lloyd : "a 
Notes, 1917, No. 47, p. 668, fig. 960; Sylar gigas ( A 
ooke : Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1539 (N.S. Wales), 
thought by Lloyd to be per this species.— Lloyd places 
this genus close to Xylaria. He has ide entified for us as 
n 
a 
December, 1916. The plants when fresh were in shape some- 
what like large examples of one of the forms of Polysaccum 
pisocarpium, i.e. » broadly club-shaped. They were empero 
to large irregular white mycelial masses in the grou e 
surface was covered with a yellow efflorescence pet 
yellowish layer, whilst outside this was a black line covered 
with the yellow efflorescence. Smell unpleasant. 
Poronta. 
249. Poronia punctata, L. Cooke :Handb. Austr. Fungi, 
No. 1548 (Vict., Tas., W. Austr. ).—Specimens collected on 
dung at Orange in October, 1916, were identified by Lloyd 
(No. 227)—asci 156 p. long, spores black, 26 to 27 x 15-5 p- — 
250. onia S ner Mont.: Ann. Sci. Nat. , 1855; 
teda Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1549 (Vict., N.S. Wales, 
—We have two New South Wales collections, both 
identifi tiea by Ll vid (Nos. 225 and 226)—asci 121 x 17 p, spores 
by mucus, 19 x 85 p (immature). 
