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it came away complete, leaving a cup in the ground. But the 

 "flower" immediately collapsed and broke to pieces in my hand. 

 Its substance was almost structureless jelly, nor could I see any 

 pistil, stamens, or other organs. The rays were of the same 

 thickness, perhaps one-eighth inch. The cup was like a puff-ball 

 or young potato in colour, of a tough jelly consistency, and 

 strengthened by internal perpendicular partitions; a thin skin 

 peeling here and there enclosed the cup. From a pimple under- 

 neath, two white threads of roots sprang. Unfortunately in 

 scrambling out of the rough spot where I found it, it fell and got 

 lost." 



The sketch drawn by Mr. Benson leaves no doubt in our 

 minds that his plant belongs to this species, as it compares 

 very well with a photograph (Plate XXIV, fig. i) taken from 

 a specimen collected at Mount Royal Range, on the edge of 

 a swamp at an elevation of about 4,500 feet above sea level, 

 by Mr. H. V. Haynes, in April, 1910. A description of the 

 specimen collected by Mr. Haynes may be given as follows: 

 Volva H x 1 inch in diameter. Receptacle on a short stipe 

 protruding about half an inch from the volva and then 

 dividing into five lobes, each of which is about two and a 

 quarter to two and a half inches long, and of a bright red 

 colour towards the tips, getting gradually paler or almost 

 white towards the base. Lobes coarsely reticulated, the 

 reticulations or rugae very unequal. The inner parts of the 

 lobes somewhat convex and more or less covered with the 

 dark bronze or greenish coloured gleba, the outer part of 

 the lobes concave. Spores somewhat cylindrical, 5 to 7 x 

 2J to 3/x. Specimens have apparently been seen at Port 

 Macquarie, as Mr. G. A. Waterhouse in a pencil sketch of 

 a fungus seen by him there seems to indicate that it was 

 this species. 



Aseroe rubra Labill. (63), Cooke (37, No. 1201), Cheer(26, 

 p. 204). (See Plate XXIV, a and XXV, g and j) 



