204 J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 



^entitled to a name as a form." In addition to the Rookwood 

 specimens, we have also collected examples of this species 

 on several occasions in November and December, 1914, 

 growing, after heavy rain, on a shady sloping bank near a 

 watercourse at Mosman, Sydney. The spores measured 

 3*4 X 1'5/x. 



Lysurus Gardneri Berk. (14, p. 535, t. xvii, f. 2). 



We have a fine series of specimens which we prefer to 

 place under the above specific name, as the fine photographs 

 together with notes ou the specimens examined and recorded 

 by Lloyd (69 and 70) clearly show that this is a very vari- 

 able species and will embrace all the Australian forms 

 described under the following names: — Lysurus australi- 

 ensis Cooke and Massee (35, p. 6), Oheel (28, p. 396); L. 

 tenuis Bailey; Mutinus sulcatus Cooke and Massee (34); 

 M. pentagonus Bailey (3, p. 35), and M. pentagonus var. 

 Hardyi Bailey (8, p. 494). 



In October, 1906, two specimens were collected by one 

 of us (E. C.) at Penshurst. The receptacles or columns 

 were of a whitish colour and measured two and a half and 

 three and a half inches long respectively, being about three 

 quarters of an inch thick in the upper part and tapering 

 slightly in the lower part. A complete volva was secured 

 with one of the specimens which measured about 1 x 1 \ inch, 

 opening at the apex by an irregular rupture and not into 

 definite lobes as depicted in some of the published illustra- 

 tions of Phalloids. The largest specimen had seven dis- 

 tinctly free lobes and the smallest specimen had six lobes, 

 also free, and in both specimens the inner sides of the 

 lobes were covered with a gleba of a bronze-green colour 

 containing the spores which measured 3 x 1/*. The outer 

 parts of the lobes were more or less fluted or channelled and 

 somewhat notched on the margins. Some specimens col- 

 lected in the Botanic Gardens have the five arms or lobes 



