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obscurely striate, with a lens minutely scaly, light brown to 

 light smoky-brown. Gills close, deeply decurrent, white then 

 with a brownish tint. Total height up to 9 inches; stem 

 alone, above ground, 4 inches. Stem more or less equal, 

 § inch thick, brownish, with darker fibrillose scales. Sclero- 

 tium on section pure white, 2 inches in diameter. Spores 

 pear-shaped, 5 to 6 x 2 "5 to 3 /x. On the ground amongst 

 fallen branches of Araucaria Cunninghamii, Ait., Mummul- 

 gum Brush, near Casino, December, 1916. Identified by C. 

 G. Lloyd. We have recently received from Mr. C. T. White, 

 Government Botanist, Queensland, some undeveloped sporo- 

 phores obtained by Mr. Munro Hull at Eumundi in Novem- 

 ber, 1918, on an old hickory (Tarrietia) stump in a banana 

 plantation. 



140. Lentinus strigosus, Fr. Cooke: Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 454. — We have made several collections in New 

 South Wales, two of which have been identified by Lloyd. 

 The pileus is up to 2| inches in diameter, moderately 

 depressed, of a brownish-fawn colour, densely strigosely hairy. 

 The decurrent gills are moderately close, entire, pallid 

 ochraceous. The stem is short, up to \ inch long, swollen, 

 contracted above where the gills join, and densely strigosely 

 hairy. Spores 4'5 to 5 x 2"2 to 2'5 \x; cystidia thick-walled, 

 blunt to club-shaped or irregular, 26 to 52 x 8"5 to 13'8 /a. 

 New South Wales, locality not noted; Mummulgum, near 

 Casino, December, 1916; Wingham, November, 1916; Com- 

 boyne, September, 1918. See Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 xxxii., p. 202 (1907), for previous records. 



141. Lentinus dealbatus, Fr. Cooke: loc. cit., No. 459 

 (W. Austr.). — We have specimens, obtained at Manildra, 

 N.S. Wales, on a fallen Callitris log in October, 1916, which 

 have been identified by C. G. Lloyd. The gills when young 

 were purple-violet, bnt when old pallid yellowish without 

 voilet. A few spores, 5 to 7 x 3 "4 fx, seen. 



142. Lentinus fasciatus, Berk.: Hook. J., 1840, p. 146; 

 Sacc. : Syll., 2317; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 458 

 (Q'land, N.S. Wales, W. Austr., Tasm.) ; Lloyd: Mycol. 

 Notes, No. 55, August, 1918, p. 796. — Our specimens, which 

 have been identified by Lloyd (No. 412, described in his 

 Mycol. Notes) were, found growing at Malanganee, near 

 Casino, in August, 1917, in rotten wood, the mycelium being 

 effused over the wood for several inches as a thick brown 

 velvety layer; a few spores seen, 5 to 7*5 x 3'4 to 4'5 jul. We 

 have also the following: — New South W T ales, locality not 

 noted; Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, April, 1915, iden- 

 tified by Lloyd (spores 7 x 3*4 jm, when moist the pileus straw- 

 brown, the gills buffy-brown, adnato-decurrent, and the stem 



