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specimen which one of us recorded under the name Anthurus 

 aseroeformis (28, p. 607) from Mount Royal near Scone. 

 This specimen has five lobes, two of which are slightly 

 united at the apex with a thin membrane, whilst the others 

 are quite free, as shown in Plate XXV, (i). 



From Yarrowitch near Walcha, some line specimens were 

 collected by Mr. G. W. Broughton which agree exactly 

 with the description drawn up by Mr. D. McAlpine and 

 published with a photograph by Mr. Lloyd (70, fig. 46 and 

 82, fig. 244). 



We have carefully compared the above specimens, 

 together with another for which no specific locality is given, 

 but which was probably collected by Mr. A. Grant, with 

 the photograph of the specimen collected in a garden at 

 Melbourne, Victoria in April 1907 by Mr. C. French, and 

 communicated to Mr. 0. G. Lloyd and referred to above, 

 and have come to the conclusion that they all belong to the 

 same species. The colour of our specimens was of a 

 reddish tint. They were all five lobed, the lobes being 

 more or less channelled on the outer side and convex on the 

 inner side, and either entire and obtuse or very slightly 

 bifid in one specimen at the apex. In addition to the above 

 we have a sketch together with a description of a fungus 

 collected at Squdgy Creek near Bulli Pass in October, 1903, 

 by Mr. W. Benson, which seems to belong to this species. 



Mr. Benson's description is interesting and may be given 

 in full as follows : — 



"It is what (if such a thing were possible) might be called a 

 flowering fungus. Habitat, Squdgy Creek near Bulli Pass. 

 Appearance a five-rayed starfish. Tips raw-meat-purple, paler 

 pink towards the centre, and the tube nearly white. Down the 

 centre of each ray, some brown slime which appeared to be part 

 of the plant (but the whole place was muddy). Surface of the 

 "flower," rough, like a sheep's tongue. On picking the "flower" 



