NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 221 



We have a solitary specimen of this species collected 

 near Adelaide, South Australia, by one of us (J.B.O.) in 

 1898, which very closely resembles G. liygrometricus Pers. 

 as already observed by Lloyd (I.e.). Our specimens agree 

 very well with the figure given by Lloyd. The spores 

 measure 4*3/* in diameter and are minutely warted. Lloyd 

 gives the following particulars concerning this species: — 



"This plant from Drummond, Australia, I found in Museum at 

 Paris, sent by Berkeley, labelled Geaster rufescens. And at Kew 

 under the same label and also the same collection (Swan River 

 174), labelled G. liygrometricus. It has no resemblance whatso- 

 ever to G. rufescens as now understood, but it is so close to G. 

 liygrometricus that I doubt if any ordinary observer can tell them 

 apart, judging from external appearances. The spores readily 

 distinguish it, being in this species the ordinary size of Geaster 

 spores 4 — 5 mic. Geaster liygrometricus can always be recognised 

 at once by having large rough spores 10-12 mic. in diameter, 

 such as no other known species of Geaster has." 



Mueller (104, p. 119) records G. hygrometricus from 

 Western Australia and Queensland, but as no mention is 

 made of the Queensland specimens by Lloyd, and we have 

 had no opportunity of examining specimens, we are not in 

 a position to say whether the Queensland specimens are 

 the same as our South Australian one, but it is quite evident 

 that this species extends from South Australia to Western 

 Australia. 



G. fioriformis Vitt. (118); Oooke (37, No. 1264); Lloyd (68, 

 73, p. 143); Bailey (1, p. 83). 



Goulburn (E. Oheel, April, 1908); Bibbenluke (J. B. 

 Oleland, March, 1913); Adelaide (July, 1914). 



According to Lloyd (I.e.) there are two collections of this 

 species at Kew, England, from New South Wales and Vic- 

 toria, both correctly determined. The spores according to 



