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Battarea. 



224. Battarea phalloides, var. Steven//; Lloyd: loc. cit., 

 p. 11, pi. 28, figs. 2 and 3; del. and Cheel: toe. cit., p. Ill; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1243 (W. Austr.), and as 

 B. Muelleri, No. 1244 (S. Austr.), and B. Tepper/ana, No. 

 1245 (Vict.). — Baan Baa, New South Wales, stem up to 12 

 inches high, attenuated upwards, very shaggy ; volva buried 

 in the ground. 



Geaster. 



225. Geaster- Clelandii, 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. Lloyd 

 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 

 short, thick pedicel. Mouth protruding, strongly furrowed." 

 He adds : — "The single specimen of this plant presents a char- 

 acter 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. It is Geaster striatulus excepting the endoperidium, 

 which is pedicellate. As a matter of fact, it is probably the 

 original of Geaster striatulus, which was from Australia and 

 not authentically known (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 312), and which 

 was described as endoperidium 'subsessile.' But it is 

 entirely different from Geaster striatulus in the sense of 

 Hollos, which we have adopted and illustrated several times 

 (Cfr. Myc. Notes, p. 71, and Lycop. Austr., p. 16)." 



226. Geaster fioriformis , Vitt. Lloyd : Lycop. of 

 Austr., 1905, p. 16, fig. 10; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, 

 No. 1264 (Vict., Q'land); Clel. and Cheel: Journ. Proc. 

 Roy. Soe. N.S. Wales xlix., 1915, p. 221.— Manildra, New 

 South Wales, October, 1916, identified by C. G. Lloyd — spores 

 finely rough, 3 '4 to 4 ju,. 



227. Geaster simulans, Lloyd: Lycop. of Austr., 1905, 

 p. 17, fig. 11; Clel. and Cheel: Joe. cit., p. 220; as G. 

 hygrometricus, Pers., in Cooke, Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 

 1268 (W. Austr., Q'land).— Manildra, October, 1916, iden- 

 tified by Lloyd — spores nearly smooth, 5'2 jtx ; Dubbo, October, 

 1915 — spores rough, 5"8 /a; Mount Lofty, South Australia, 

 July, 1914 — spores rough, 4 to 6 jx. 



