NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 105 



estimated that 17 c.c. of toluene were present in the sample, 

 i.e., 21 c.c. of benzene and toluene together. This gives 

 1*6 per cent, benzene and 6*8 per cent, toluene in oil No. II. 

 It is quite exceptional for the first approximation to differ 

 so much from the true content as shewn by the blank test' 

 and in order to confirm the figures a second blank test 

 should have been performed. The paraffins were present 

 to the extent of 4 per cent. 



NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI, No. III. 

 NIDULARIACE.E and LYOOPERDACE.E. 



BY 



J. Burton Cleland, m.d., 



Principal Microbiologist, Department of Public Health, 



AND 



Edwin Oheel, 



Botanical Assistant, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, June 7, 1916.] 



Through the works of O. G. Lloyd of Cincinnati on the 

 Nidulariacese and the Australian Lycoperdacese, and 

 through his kindness in identifying specimens for us, we 

 have been able to review the specimens belonging to these 

 two families in our own collections and in that of the 

 National Herbarium, Sydney. The following paper is the 

 outcome of our labours in this connection. Of the 121 

 species of Australian Lycoperdacese recorded by Cooke, 22 

 were Geasteis. The remaining 99 species can now be 

 reduced to 75 with 4 varieties. 



