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21 x 6 /x, ends rather pointed, usually with four large globules. 

 Under trees, Lane Cove River, Sydney, June, 1916; Dr. 

 Darnell Smith also collected specimens in the same month 

 and year at Somersby Falls, Gosford; Neutral Bay, May, 

 1917; Mosman, April and May, 1918 (asci 60 to 70 xx, spores 

 17'5 x 4'2 /x, one side of the spore a little flattened). 



Geoglossum. 



238. Geoglossum Muetteri, Cooke: Myco., t. 1, f. 2; 

 Sacc. : Syll.,'l38; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1362 

 (Vict.). — If inch high. Club slightly viscid when moist, a 

 little shorter than the stem, black. Stem shining. Asci 

 fusiform. Sporidia 3-septate, 58 to 66 x 5 ja. Under bushes, 

 Parramatta, July, 1912. 



239. Geoglossum glabrum, Pers. : Syn., p. 608; Sacc: 

 Syll., 141; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1363 (Vict., 

 Q'land). — Club \ inch high, \ inch wide, flattened, slightly 

 sulcate, matt, almost black. Stem 1^ inch high, attenuated 

 downwards, dark chocolate, and lighter than the club, jf^sci 

 139 to 174 x 18 /x. Sporidia brown, 7-septate, 56 x 6 /x. On 

 the ground, Neutral Bay, June, 1913 (identified by Lloyd, 

 No. 230). We also have the following: — New South Wales, 

 asci cylindrical club-shaped, 120 to 138 x 13'8 xi, sporidia 

 brown, 7-septate (one 6-septate), 72'5 x 4*8 ju.. Sedgwick, 

 Victoria (E. J. Semmens), amongst mosses, asci 155 x 17 /x, 

 sporidia brown, 7-septate, 53 to 61 x 7 ju,. 



Fam. PEZIZACEAE. 



Phillipsia. 



240. Phillipsia polyporoides, Berk. : Linn. J., xviii., 386; 

 Sacc: Syll., 608; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 1399 

 (Q'land); Lloyd: Letter 62, Note 432, 1916.— Specimens 

 obtained at Kurrajong Heights on a fallen log in August, 

 1912, are considered by Lloyd, from Berkeley's description, 

 to be probably this species, though he sees no justification 

 for the specific name. He adds that the genus Phillipsia is 

 close to Urnula, though put in a different section in Saccardo. 

 He describes our specimens as being thick, dark, coriaceous, 

 and cup-shaped, with large, hyaline, arcuate, smooth spores, 

 12 x 36 /x, and numerous dark, filiform paraphyses, slightly 

 enlarged at the apices. Our measurements show slightly 

 curved spores, 27 to 29'5 x 10 - 14 to 12 /x. We have also speci- 

 mens collected by Prof. S. J. Johnston at Kendall in June, 

 1917, on wood — asci cylindrical, 313 to 340 x 12 to 14 jx, 

 spores white, slightly curved, 25 to 28 x 10'5 /x. 



