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THE LARGER FUXGI 
4(i7. Podaxon pistillaris (L.) Fr. (Syns., Fodaxon ncgyptiacus Mont.; Fodaxis 
indiea (Spreiig.) Maasoe.) (L., pistiUum, a pestle). — Plant to (iin. (15 cm.) tall. 
Peridium ovate-oblong, I) to 23in. (:l to 7 cm.) tall, 1 to Ijin. (1 to 3 cm.) 
diameter; exoperidium in the form of a few closely a])pressed scales, wliich 
usually fall away at maturity; endopeildium memljranous, externally white or 
bav-biown, sometimes ferruginous, at first smooth, shining or silky fibrillose, 
l)ecoming wrinkled and in old specimens longitudinally lacerate; apex bluntly 
acuminate or rounded. Stem If to 3',in. (4 to 8 cm.) tall, 2 to 10 mm. diameter, 
covered with white, crustose, brittle fibrils, arranged irregularly (as imbricately 
or S})irally), disappearing readily when the stem appears brown and longitudinally 
silicate, smooth, often twisted, tapering from liase to a;)ex, and produced below 
into a bulbous attachment, consisting of hyphae and sand particles, sometimes 
appearing volvate due to persistence of part of the peridium. Gleba dense, 
ranging in colour from olivaceous througli reddish-brown to black; eapillitium 
[Photo. h,i/ Profo.'isor T. G. B. Ofihoin. 
Figure 64 . — PheUorina in</uinunt< Berk. In fiitn 
amongst grass, etc., Monarto South. 
threads deeply coloured, olivaceous or reddish-brown, sparingly septate, scantily 
branched, often flattened. H[)ores obovate or shortly elliptical, reddish-brown, 
10 to Ki X 1) to 12 y; truncate apically, and thickened to 4 p fre<iuentlv with a 
rudimentary pedicel basallv, smooth, apically ]>erforate. — Cunningham. South 
Australia— Ooldea, Wilgena', Miller ’s Creek near Stewaif’s Range, near Wirrealpa 
(Flinders Range), Coojier's Creek near Lake Eyre, Minnie Downs near 
Diamantina, Pedirka, Ernabella (Musgrave Ranges). Central Australia— Alice 
8i>rings to Jay Rivei*, Macdonald Downs, Cockatoo Creek, Mount Liebig. Queens- 
land — Arrabury Station near Cordillo. New South Wales Twenty miles east oi 
Broken Hill. ‘India. Africa. Madagascar. May, August, December. 
408. Podaxon loandensis Welw. et Currey. (Syiis., Fodaxon Muelleri P. Ilenn. ; 
Chainoderma Drummondii Mass.) (After Luanda in Most Africa). Plants similai 
to the preceiling, but iliffering in typical plants in the characters of the gleba 
and spores. Gleba either well ileveloped or scanty, olivaceous or black, not 
reddish, arachnoid, fragile; eapillitium threads hyaline or tinted only, spaiingL 
