NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. Ill 



(7.) B. phalloides, Dicks, (pi. 28, Lloyd) and B. phalloides 

 var. Stevenii. 

 Lloyd, in his "Lycoperdaceae of Australia," etc., points 

 out that B. Stevenii, which has been recorded from Aus- 

 tralia, is unquestionably only a form of B. phalloides, 

 showing a more robust growth arid thick lacerated scales 

 on the stipe. This view is supported by our finding, growing 

 together in the same locality (Alawoona, S.A., December, 

 1913) what appear to be the two forms. The smaller, more 

 slender form, with a stem tapering downwards and covered 

 with longer slender fibrillose scales, Lloyd identified as B. 

 phalloides. The spores were smooth, 5*2 to 6*8/* in diameter. 

 The characteristic "annulate cells" were5*2/*in thickness. 

 The more robust form, with heads nearly two inches in 

 diameter, had much broader lacerated scales. The spherical 

 spores of these plants were 2*5 to 5*5/* in size, minutely 

 rough (oil immersion lens). One "plant" has two volvas 

 and stems inserted into what appears to be one cap, though 

 a slight line of demarcation seems to indicate the union of 

 the original two caps, with nevertheless an apparently 

 single circumscissile top. The following notes were made 

 in the field and refer particularly to the latter form:-" Vol va 

 sometimes on the surface of the ground, sometimes buried 

 several inches, \\ in. in diameter, greyish-brown. Stem 

 4£ ins. high, elongating to 9 ins., yellowish-brown, fibrously 

 scaly, the scales imbricated downwards, solid, white intern- 

 ally. Gap convex, 2 to 2J ins. in diameter, 1 in. high, cover 

 double, the inner one soft and white, on the outside adher- 

 ent greyish-brown remains of the volva. The cover on 

 falling off leaves a thick mass (half inch deep) of cinnamon- 

 coloured spores supported on a thin smooth convex white 

 stratum, seen in the fresh state as a smooth white under 

 surface." 



We have also specimens of this species in our collections 

 from Gular near Coonamble (J. B. Oleland, November, 1911) 



