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which are perfect, not having shed their spores. The 

 whole plant is pallid-white before the shedding of the spores 

 takes place. 



Previous records are Murchison River and Lake Al- 

 bacutya (Oooke); Tumby Bay on the west coast of Spencer's 

 Gulf, South Australia, Lloyd ("Two Rare Plants from Aus- 

 tralia ") and Port Lincoln, S.A., Lloyd (18). There are also 

 according to Lloyd (Lycoperdacese p. 11, 1905), specimens 

 at Kew, England, from Israelite Bay, W.A. F. M. Bailey 

 records specimens from Gladfleld, Queensland. B. Stevenii 

 is recorded by Oooke for Western Australia, and Froggatt 

 collected specimens in N. S. Wales (Lloyd, Letter No. 53, 

 p. 4). Duplicates of the latter, from Brewarrina, Sep- 

 tember, 1911, are in the National Herbarium collection. 



Two remnants of a Battarrea are recorded for Victoria 

 by Lloyd (Mycol. Notes, No. 21, p. 245, 1906). 



POLYSACCUM (PlSOLITHUS). 



Lloyd considers that the Australian forms are but varie- 

 ties of one species, P. pisocarpium, though it is convenient 

 to designate three extreme departures from the more 

 typical forms as crassipes, tuberosum and confusum. 



Intermediate forms connect these extremes with each 

 other. Cooke's nine species are thus reduced to one with 

 three varieties. We have met with the following : — 



(8) P. pisoearpium, Fr., Oooke's Handb., p. 243; Baker, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxi, p. 720 (1906); Oheel in 

 Rep. Bot. Gard., Sydney, 1909 (1910), 10, and 1910 

 (1911), 12. 



We have specimens approaching the typical form, being 

 sub-globose with a short rooting stem, from the following 

 localities : — Governor's Domain, Sydney (E. Cheel, May, 

 1907, spores granulated 8 to 12/^); Centennial Park (A. A. 

 Hamilton, February, 1911); Gladesville (M. Flockton, 



