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THE IjARGER fungi 
COLUS Cavalier et Soeliicr. 
(L., coins, a distaft', a wliorl.) 
Peiidium oljovate, smooth externally, of throe layers. Rece])taele with arms 
anastomosing apioally to support a clathrate dome, Itelow forming several short 
columns which unite basally to form a hollow flaring tubular stem-like base. 
Gleba borne on the inner surfaces of the upper portion of the arms, olivaceous, 
foetid, mucilaginous. Spores smooth, elliptical, continuous. Growing on sandy 
soil or on dung. — Cunningham. 
T40. Colus hiiudinosus Cav. et Sech. (L., hiriido, hirndinis, a leech). — 
Peridium obovate, to lin. (2.5 cm.) diameter, white or dingy grey externally. 
Receptacle to 2 tin. (0 cm.) tall, apically sparsely clathrate, centrally of 5 to 7 
(or more) slender columnar arms united basally into a short cylindrical stem. 
Arms angled, transversely rugulose, red above, orange below. Gleba olivaceous, 
borne on the inner surfaces of the arms of the upper poition of the receptacle, 
foetid. Spores tinted, elliptical, smooth, 5 to (i x 1.5 to 2.2 /r- — Cunningham. 
A more detailed description of specimens from Milson Island, Hawkesbury 
River, New South Wales, is as follows: — The egg is oval, less than lin. (2.5 cm.) 
in size, with a short root, the volva splitting into several short irregular lobes. 
The receptacle consists of a short broad stem, fin. long x 7/1 (iin. thick (15 x 
12 mm.), slightly rugose and ])ale orange in colour, expanding into five rugose 
branches, two of' which have a short connecting bar at lin. (12 mra.) froni their 
commencement and all the branches begin to form large meshes at lin. (2.5 cm.) 
distance, the summit being arched over with smaller meshes. The general shape 
of the scaffolding is pyriform. The branches are rugose, the centres of the outer 
aspects of the main branches showing apparently a whitish slit, the bases of the 
branches pale orange, passing into brilliant crimson orange at the meshes. Gleba 
dark purplish. Smell like that of a nearly dry human faecal stool. South 
.Australia — Adelaide suburbs. New South Wales. Europe. North Africa. March, 
April, June. (Plate X. Iipper left figure.) 
CliATHRUS Micheli {ex Persoon). 
(Gr., Idcithron, a lattice.) 
Peridium globose or obovate, exterior thin and furfuraceous, middle layer thick 
and gelatinous. Recoptaede of several arms organically united to form a hollow 
latticed sphere; sometimes arms arranged in columnar fashion below, and in 
exti'eme forms pi'olonged int() a short cylindrical stem-like base, aims smooth 
or rugulose, in section elliptical, angled or rounded, cellular or tubular. Gleba 
borne on the inner surfaces of the arms, mucilaginous, olivaceous, foetid. Spores 
elliptical, smooth. On the ground or on decaying wood. — Cunningham. 
441. Clathrus cibarius (Tulasne) Eischer (L., c.iharms, ^pertaining to 
victuals). — Peridium obovate or subglobose, dingy white, to 24;in._ (7 cm.) dia_meter. 
Receptacle sessile, white, subglobose or commonly obovate, to (i x 4in. (lo x IJ 
cm.), composed of numerous obliquely' anastomosing anus, which are tu®s- 
verselv rugulose, in section elliptical, tubular or more often coarselv cellular, 
not or scarcelv thickened at the interstices (though in some forms attaining 
a thickness twice that of the arms). Gleba covering the inner surfaces of the 
arms, olivaceous, mucilaginous, foetid. Spores tinted, elliptical, smooth 4 to () 
X l.S to 2.5 fjL. — Cunningham. South Australia— Blackwood. Xew South W ajes. 
New Zealand. July. 
442. Clathrus gracilis (Berk.) Schlecht. (L., gracilis, slender). Receptacle 
white, sessile, variable in size and shape. Is to Sin. (4 to 20 cm.) diameteiq aims 
mnooth, often longitudinally sulcate externally, in section flattened, to o mm. 
thick, tubular, or with two or more tubes welded, expanded at the interstices. 
Gleba borne on the inner surfaces of the arms, olivaceous, foetid, mucilaginous. 
Spores hvaline or tinted, elliptical, smooth, 4.5 to <> x 1.8 to 2.u ^i.—Cunningham. 
South Australia — Adelaide, Salisburv, Grecnhill Road, Mount Lofty', Bakm s CuU\ 
near Clarendon, Willunga Hill, Barossa Range, Charleston Mang^alo, Kinchina, 
Encounter Bay, Monash, Kalangadoo (S.E.). New South Males, \ictoiia. 
Tasmania. AVestern Australia. May to September. 
443. Clathni.s pusillus Berk. (!>., ptisillus, small). Peridium ovate, to r;in. 
(20 mm.) diameter. Receptacle red, obovate, to I'Ln. (f cm.) diameter, clat i- 
rate, arms somewhat columnar below, sometimes united into a stem-like base, or in 
