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NEW AUSTRALIAN FUNGt. 
Scleroderma aurea, Massee. 
Peridium globose, thick, smooth, or minutely vemiculose, 
yellowish-olive, with the flesh bright yellow, tapering below into a 
very short, stem-like base, running into a dense mass of branched, 
cord-like, bright yellow mycelium. Capillitium yellowish olive, 
dense, elastic, spores umber in the mass, with an olive tinge, 
globose, smooth, 5 /xdiam. 
On the ground. New Guinea. 
Scleroderma australe, Massee. 
Subglobose, sessile, subplicate below. Peridium thick, almost 
even, externally minutely furfuraceous or felty, dirty-ochre, with a 
rooting base, which is short, abrupt, and fibrous. Internally with 
very indistinct areolae, mass of spores (without definite capillitium), 
purple-brown ; spores globose, sparsely and minutely verruculose, 
6-7 /i. 
On soil. Endeavour River, Queensland. ( Persiety .) 
*Spinellus gigasporus, Cke. fy Mass. 
Hyphis sporangiferis simplicibus, decumbentibus, olivaceo 
nitentibus, continuis (40-45 p crass.). Sporangiis subglobosis, 
polysporis (220-250 /xdiam.), columella cylindrica, apice rotundata 
(140-150 x 90-100 p). Sporis elongato-ellipsoideis, olivaceis 
(50-60 x 13-15 /x). Hyphis zygosporiferis flexuosis tenuioribus, 
obscurioribus, septatis, zygosporio compresso-globoso, ruguloso, 
atrofusco (70-80 x 55-60 /x). Rami zygosporia arcuati, Ise vi, nec 
spinulosi. 
On decaying Agarics. Mordiallac, Victoria. ( C . French.) 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
( Continued from p. 20.) 
Agaricus (Collybia) floccipes, Fr. Hym. Fur. 116. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, then convex, umbonate, even, 
silky, becoming pale; stem fistulose, straight, rooting, pallid, 
rough with floccose punctiform black squamules ; gills adnexed, 
ventricose, rather distant, thick, white. — Cooke Ulus. Suppl. 
In a stump. Leigh Woods. ( C . Bucknall.) 
With the habit of Mycena. 
Paxillus (Lepista) Alexandri, Gillet Hym. Fr. 
Pileus fleshy, compact, plane, then depressed, dry, unpolished, 
fawn colour , margin closely involute, becoming flattened and 
faintly striate ; stem stout ; gills rather decurrent, crowded, 
colour of box wood. — Fr. Hym. Fur. 402. Cooke Illus. Suppl. 
On the ground. They don Bois. 
Pileus 2-3 inches broad. Stem short and thick. Flesh white, 
turning yellow. Spores whitish. Resembling in appearance small 
discoloured L. ville reus, with dark gills. Spores 7-8x4 p. 
