OF SOl’TH At:STRAIJA. 
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septate and scantily branched. Spores obovate or shortly elliptical, olivaceous 
or chestnut-brown, 11 to 15 x 9 to 11 y, perforated apically, basally shortly 
pedicellate (or as frequently without this feature), thick-walled, smooth. — ■ 
Cunningham. South Australia — Xear Wirrealpa (Flinders Range). Central Aus- 
tralia — Mount Liebig. West Africa. August, December. 
PHELLOKINEAK. 
Peridium carried at the apex of the stem, a columella being absent; dehiscing 
by irregular rupture at the apex, or by an apical pore. 
\ Photo, hy A. Tee and W.P.G. 
Figure 65 . — Phellorina atrobiiina (Kalch.) Lloyd (No. 470.) 
Naldla, near Blanchetown. Reduced by nearly |. 
PHELLORINA Berk. 
(Or., phellos, cork; rhino.s, the skin.) 
Plant consisting of a 2-layered peridium su()ported upon a definite stem. 
Exoperidium rougliened, continuous with tlie exterior of tlie stem ; endoperidium 
a tine parchment-like membrane seated on the expanded apex of the stem, 
dehiscing by the irregulai' breaking away of the a|)ical portion, the whole 
ultimately becoming cupulate. Stem thick, woody, stout. Gleba of capillitium, 
spores and persistent fascicles of basidia; capillitium threads long, simple, 
flattened, rarely branched and sparingly septate. Spores globose, tinted yellow, 
verruculose. Basidia bearing apically 1 to 4 spores on short sterigmata. Growing 
solitary in sandy soil. — Cunningham. 
4(i9. Phellorina inquinans Berk. (Syn., XyJopodium Delastrei Mont.) (L., 
ineiuinans, staining, dying). — Plant to ID, in. (9 cm.) tall. Peridium pyriform, 
Ij to 2in. (3 to 5 cm.) tall, il to IJin. (2 to 4 cm.) diameter; exoperidium 
