OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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TYPHULA (Pers.) Fr. 
(L., typka, the reed-mace.) 
Receptacle fleshy, waxy or tough, erect, simple, very rarely branched, 
cylmdrically clavate, with a long thin stem, often springing from a sclerotium. 
ll\menium smooth, confined to the clavate portion of the receptacle. Spores 
wlute, oblong, ovate, sul)globose, pip-shaped, or cylindrical, smootli; basidia 
clavate, with 2-4 sterigmata. Cystidia none or inconspicuous. Growing on dead 
leaves, herbaceous stems, twigs and wood.” — Rea. 
juncea (Fr.) Karst. (L., junceus, rush-like). — Receptacle simple, 
hhforni; stem Ifin. (.1.1 cm.) high, pale Snuff Brown (xxix.) ; club 2|in. (6.2 
cm.) liigh, paler. Attached by a minutely strigose disc to fallen pine-needles. 
► poies pear-shaped, 5.5 to 7 x .i.7 to 4 y. South Australia — In pine forest, 
Kalangadoo. May. 
Though the stem is much shorter and the colouring is sliglitlv different, the 
following seems also to belong to this species: — Receptacle simple, up to liin. 
(3.1 cm.) high, very slender (about 0.75 mm. thick); stem about fin. (6 mm.)' 
long, ])allid yellowish; club only slightly thicker tlian the stem, attenuated 
towards the rather blunt apex, sliglitly pruinose, opaque white, when young pallid 
brownisli. Tough-fleshy, becoming pallid. Attached by a slightly 'swollen disc 
with minute strigose liairs to dead woo<l. Spores pear-shaped, 1 .a to 8 x 4.5 jx. 
South Australia — National Park. July. 
PISTILLARIA Fr. 
(L., pixtillum, a pestle.) 
“Receptacle fleshy or waxy, erect, simple, very rarely forked, club-shaped 
with a short, thick glabrous or villose stem, rarely springing from a sclerotium. 
Hymenium smooth, confined to the clavate portion Of the receptacle. Spores 
white, oblong, elliptical, subeylind ideal, pruniform, oblong, oblong elli])tioal or 
sausage-shaped, smooth; basidia clavate, with 1-2-4 sterigmata. Cystidia none 
or inconspicuous. Growing on dead herbaceous stems and leaves. ’ ’—Rea. 
No species recorded for South .-Vustralia. 
PTERULA Fr. 
(Gr., pteron, a feather.) 
“Receptacle firm, tough, filiform, branclied or simple, blanches equal. 
Hymenium smooth. Spores white, oval, elliptical or pip-shaped, smooth; basidia 
with 2-4 sterigmata. Cystidia none or inconspicuous. Growing on the ground 
or on wood. ’ ’ — Itea. 
No species recorded for South Australia. 
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