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sporeless beak. Sporiferous, pulp dark. olive. _Volva smooth, white, 
pitcher-shaped, about 2 in. long, and 1 in. wide at the base. ce- 
lium consisting of a few delicate threads. (Fig. about natural size.) 
Hab.: Ona flower border in a Brisbane garden. Feetid, but very beautiful ; 
only aisingle specimen found. 
M. annulatus, Bail. (sp. now.). | (Spore-bearing portion ringed.) 
Entire length including volva 2} in. Rece tacle terete, diameter at 
base about 2+ lines, from thence tapering to a pervious apex 0 bout 
4 line diameter. Spore-bearing portion annulated, nearly one-half the 
entire length of receptacle, red-ochre-coloured ; sporeless portion pure 
white. Voiva globose, white, about 5 lines in diameter, shortly split- 
ting into irregular lobes. (Fig. about natural size. 
Hab.: Amongst decaying vegetable matter at Eumundi, Bailey and Simmonds. 
; ecimen met with was lost in forwarding to Dr. M. C. Cooke. The 
above description is from notes and sketch of plant made at the time. The nearest 
allied species is M. Watsoni, Berk. 
M. Watsoni, Berk., in Cooke’s Handbook of Austr. Fungi, 218. 
‘About 24 in. high, spore-bearing portion conical, one-fourth the length 
of the entire receptacle, minutely veined, red, about 2.inch diameter at 
the base, pervious at the apex— Cooke 1.c. 
Hab.: On the ground, Burnett River, Watson. 
M. papuasius, Kalch., in Cooke's Handbook of Austr. Fungi, 214. 
About 3-4 in. high. Receptacle thin and slender (3-4 mm. diam. ), 
llid. Spore-bearing portion ovate-conical or somewhat pear-shapet, 
thicker than the stem, even, black.— Cooke J. 
Hab.: On the ground, Rockhampton, 4. Thozet, 
above to the stem; apex at first closed, then pervious, yellow 
or at length turning black, delicately reticulately rugose.— Gani? © 
Hab.: On the ground, Wigton. 
~GEASTER, Mich. caietl 
Fries. _ Bordered Geaster. pete I ed, and 
peduncle, into which it passes gradually ; mouth fimbriato-P ree 
depressed, rather acute —Cooke, in British Fungi. 
Hab.: Gladfield, C. J. Gwyther. 
USTILAGO, Pers. 
v. sorghi, Link. Pori black or dark brown, roughly puly “vith 
spores globose, oblong, often angular, 5-93 x 4-53, furmis ical, 
smooth, yellowish-olive-brown epispore; promycellum 4 
constricte e base, sporidioles numerous, oblong. 
Hab, : Gladfield, on inflorescence of sorghum, C, J, Gryther. 
