AUTHOR’S PREFACE — continued. 
Many of the half-tone illustrations in the text have been taken from a large 
number of further water-colour drawings by Miss Clarke, as well as from 
drawings by the late Miss R, Fiveasli, Miss J. Buxton, and others, all prepared 
for the author as records in colour of Australian fungi. He is also much 
indebted to those who have assisted him by taking the photographs (Mr. S. Tee 
in particular) and in preparing the line drawings. 
In the systematic portion of the work, the use of capital letters commencing 
the names of colours, followed by Roman numerals (thus “Pinkish Cinnamon, 
xxix.”), means that such colour has been matched with the one so named on 
the plate of that number in Ridgway’s “Color Standards and Color Nomen- 
clature,” 1912. 
Unless otherwise indicated, the descriptions of the fungi are based on Aus- 
tralian specimens, mostly collected by the author. Thus, where the species is 
one which had been originally described from some other part of the world, the 
description given is to be taken as referring to Australian plants believed to 
belong to the same species. If later it is found that the two are really 
specifically distinct though closely related, the description will then apply to the 
Australian species and not to the exotic one. The records of fungi for the 
other States of Australia are purely incidental, and no attempt has been made 
to make these complete. 
J. B. Clelaxd. 
The University, Adelaide. 
