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rooting fibres, and the absence of a broadly — ire white 
mycelium ; and from H. membranaceum, Vittad., h ick. 
glabrous peridium, and the very slight indication ob a a ile base, 
The basidia are most frequently tetrasporous, but a few bisporous 
basidia are present. The sterigmata are very short. 
cine elathroides, Vittad. Monog. Tuber. (1831) p. 13, 
Subterranean, Rodway, 265. 
IUE: membranaceum, Vittad. Monog. Tuber, (1831) 
t. 4, fig. 
E les allied T H. affine, Mass. & Rodw., but distinguished by 
the membranaceous, dry, subtomentose, white peridium, which, 
like the gleba, becomes ün ged with indigo or green when bruised. 
Underground, Hobart, DAT sy, 288. 
H CAT australiense, Berk. et Broome in Trans. Linn. Sor. 
ser. b i ii. (1883) p. 64; SER australiensis, Cooke, Handb. 
Austr. Fung. (1892) p. : 
Subterranean, Ae Ren 20. Also known from Victoria. 
merging from the ground ; when freshly cut milk-bearing. 
Irregularly reniform, 1:5-2 em. in diameter, rufous-brown. Gleba 
rather compact, paler; sterile base small or none, peridium distinct, 
continuous. Spores hyaline, globose, very minutely and sparsely 
sentra 10-13 p in diameter. Basidia clavate, bisporous or 
ely monosporous, sterigmata elongate 
The Tasmanian specimens agree parted with Berkeley’s type 
of the species. 
base oa carneum, Wallr. in Dietr. Fl. Boruss. (1838) 
t. à 
Une d Rodway, 118. Widely distributed ; there are 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium from the ollowing countries : 
England, Scotland, IE Germany, Silesia, Italy, Sweden, 
Finland, and Australia 
t Gleb rather friable, pink; ¢ vilicd tortuous, rather large ; 
sterile base very distinct, emen 8 sending strands through the 
leba. Basidia narrowly ey iniri elavate, with two long, tapering 
sterigmata, rarely only one ves is present. Spores globose, 
hispid kenn crowded, slender spines, 2-3 » long, hyaline, 13-18 p 
in diam 
Allied p H. australiense, Berk. & Broome, but readily dis- 
tinguished by the pink tinge of the peridium and gleba, and the 
more distinetly spinulose spores. 
Hydnocystis cyclospora, Massee; Bei Sa aurantiac cl, Var. 
cyclospora, Cooke, in Grevillea xv. (1886) p. 16 ; Hydnocystis 
convoluta, MeAlpine, in Agric. Gaz. N. S. Nus vii. (1896) p . 86. 
Rodway ; and also New Zealand, Colenso. 
Cooke states that the spores of var. cyclospora measure 18 p 
in diameter but an examination of the type specimen proves that 
the spores range from 9-12 p in diameter. 
Meliola — Mont. in La neo: Hist. Ile Cuba, 
Crypt., (18: 38-42) p 
On a dead leaf of m argophylla, F. Muell., Rodway, 472. 
