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by one of us (J. B. C.) at The Rock, New South Wales, in 

 July, 1917. Mr. Lloyd's description of the species is as fol- 

 lows : — "1-2 cm. thick, globose, pale orange. Surface tuber- 

 culate. Peridium indistinct. Gleba convolute, lacunose, 

 yellow. Vesicle imbedded in the context tissue, globose, 

 50-60 mic, with thick, hyaline walls and granular, yellow 

 contents." Lloyd adds that, possessing the characteristic 

 vesicles of the genus Endogone, this is best so referred, but it 

 differs from all other species in the lacunose gleba and tuber- 

 cular surface. Our notes state that the plants were just above 

 the ground, -| inch in diameter when fresh, pallid orange in 

 colour, and with a tuberculate surface. The vesicles were 

 large, oval, thick-walled bodies, 85 x 60 ju, in size in some cases, 

 with granular contents. 



DISCOMYCETIINE AE . 

 Fam. HELVELLIINEAE. 



MORCHELLA. 



235. Morchella esculenta, L. Pers.: Syn., 618; Sacc. : 

 Syll., viii., 8; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1353 (no 

 locality). — Victoria, September, 1913 (asci cylindrical, occa- 

 sionally slightly wavy, 243 x 17"4 /x, spores oval, 19 to 

 20-7x11-2 jx). 



236. Morchella conica, Pers. Cooke: Myco., t. 81, f. 

 315; Sacc: Syll., viii., 10; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, 

 No. 1354, f. 139 (Vict., S. Austr., Tas.); Cambage : Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, 1901, p. 691 (N.S. Wales); Clel. and 

 Cheel : Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlviii., 1914, p. 

 443 (N.S. Wales). — Victoria, September, 1913 (asci 

 210x21 jul ; spores 24 to 26x16 /a). 



Leotia. 



237. Leotia marcida, Pers. Lloyd : Geoglossaceae, p. 

 15. — Specimens have been identified for us by Llyod (No. 

 ,161), who says that many authors consider this species as 

 merely a colour form of L. Jubrica, Pers. Our collecting notes 

 are as follows: — Pileus § inch wide and \ inch high, irregu- 

 larly nodular or "bumpy," greenish-waxy looking, the under- 

 surface slightly concave and paler and more watery in appear- 

 ance, on section tremelloid and watery waxy-looking. Stem 

 \\ inch high, \ inch thick, yellow-waxy looking, punctate with 

 slightly darker, apparently warty, particles, on section show- 

 ing an outer clear cortex and a thick solid yellow-waxy core, 

 which expands in the pileus as a thin disc. The spore-bearing 

 part of the ascus about 60 x 10'5 /x, the whole ascus about 

 140 /x long. Spores overlapping in the ascus, 17-5 to 



