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flask-shaped, surrounded by a coarsely granular thick 
epispore (?,) which appears to be easily removable. On the 
ground, Parramatta, July 1912. 
ASCOMYCETES. 
Morchella conica.—Cambage’* has recorded this morel 
for the Pinnacle Mountain, in the Forbes district of this 
State. He states that this and similar species of fungi 
were known to the natives by the name of ‘merl,’ which, 
if an Antochthonous word is strangely like the English 
‘morel.’ Other New South Wales records are:—Tamworth 
(loc. cit., 1896, p. 503), and near Grenfell and Coonabara- 
bran (loc. cit., 1909, p. 413). We have a specimen from 
Berowra Creek, Hawkesbury River (Darnell Smith), Sep. 
1914. Asci 260 x 17°5. Spores 20°7 to 22°5 x 12p. 
+ Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1901, p. 691. 
