OF SOUTH AUSTRATTA. 
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sciily, leathery, dingy brown, striate, etiual, stuffed, with a small mycelial bulb 
at the base. Gleba ferruginous; capillitium hyaline or tinted, threads branched, 
sparsely septate, slightly thickeneil at the sej)ta. Spores globose to subglobose, 
4, to 6 g, sometimes apiculate; epispore pallid ferruginous, finely and moderately 
verrucose, 0.75 thick. Solitary or gregarious on the ground. — Cunningham. 
South Australia — Kinchina. New South Wales. North America. June, 
November, December. 
479. Tulostoma striatum Cunn. (L., .ntriatiis, with striae). — Peridium depressed- 
''•lobose, up to Sin. (15 mm.) high, tin. (20 mm.) diameter; exoperidium pallid 
tan colour, soon falling away save where persistent at the base, in some specimens 
persisting as irregular roughened patches; endoperidium ])allid-taii or dingy-whiTe, 
smooth, papyraceous. Alouth raised, irregularly circular, surrounded by a fibril- 
lose zone, up to 3 mm. diameter. Stipe to 2*in. (2 to 0 cm.) x 2 to 4 nun., 
equal, pallid-tan, stuffed, striate, slightly enlarged towards the base. Gleba 
ferruginous; capillitium hyaline, threads somewhat flattened, branched, spai'ingly 
se])tate, slightly swollen at the septa. Spores globose or subglobose, 4 to (i m; 
epispore coarsely and sparsely verrucose, verrucae arranged in striae, 1 m thick. 
Solitary or caes])itose on the ground. — Cunningham. South Australia — Grange, 
Kinchina, Berri, Ooldea. New South Wales. January, June, August, November. 
Mouth Indefinite. 
Mouth merely an indefinite torn aperture. 
480. Tulostoma pxilchellum Sacc. (L., pulohellus, somewhat pretty). — This 
species was radlected by J. G. O. Topper and so probably came from South Aus- 
tralia. Lloyd says that the colour is now chocolate brown, the surface scurfy 
under a lens. The stem is very short and does not appear to be inserted in a 
socket. The mouth is an indefinite opening. The gleba is rust colour. The spores 
globose, smooth, pale-coloured, 8 to 9 /j. (unusually large for this genus). 
4S1. Tulostoma australianum Lloyd. (Australianus, Australian). — Peridium 
strongly depressed-globose, almost pulvinate, up to |in. (15 mm.) high, lin. 
(24 mm.) diameter; exoperidium falling completely away, save at the base; 
endoperidium smooth, dingy wldte, tough, thick, membranous. Mouth indefinite, 
plane, a simple irregularly torn aperture. Stipe u]) to Jin. (15 inm.) long x 
6 mm. thick, equal, covered with coarse deciduous scales, markedly striate, woody, 
stuffed, bay-brown, with a strongly developed bulbous base. Gleba fei'rugiiious ; 
capillitium hyaline, threads branched, moderately swollen at the somewhat sparse 
septa. Spores globose or subglo'bose, 4 to (i /r; epispore finely and sparsely verru- 
cose, pallhl ferruginous, 0.75 ij. thick. Solitary on the ground. — Cunningham. 
South Australia — Monarto South, Barton (East- West Line). New South Wales. 
Ma,v, June, September. 
BATTAKEAEA Dors. 
(After the Italian botanist Antonio Battarra.) 
Plant with a small applanato peridium Imrne upon a long and strongly 
developed stem seated in a basal volva. Peridium of two layers; exoperidium 
of sand particles mixed with hypae, soon disappearing, endoperidium tough and 
membranous, dehiscing by eircuinscissile cleavage of the upper hemisphere from 
the periphery of the discoid apex of the stem. Gleba of spores and capillitium; 
capillitium of two types, long sparsely branched threads and elaters. .S)>ores 
globose, punctate, of throe layers, the outer being somewhat gelatinous. Basidia 
bearing 1-4 s])ores apically on long sterigmata. Growing solitary, partially buried 
in sand. — Cunningham. 
482. Battarraea Stevenii (Liboschitz) (Syn., 71. Tepperiana Imdw.) (A 
surname). — Peridium pulvinate or depressed globose, seated on the expanded 
discoid apex of the stem, to 2-Jin. ((i cm.) diameter, and J to L}in. (2 to .3 cm.) 
tall, base white or ochracoious and appearing roughened when the glelia is re- 
moved, smooth and white beneath; apically at first consisting of two membi’anes, 
the outer falling away in flakes, the inner ilehiscing circumscissilely and falling 
away in one piece as a distinct calyptra. Stem 4 to 14in. (10 to 35 cm.) tall, 
T to j-in. (5 to 15 mm.) diameter, tapering below and attached to the sub- 
stratum by a definite 2-layered volva (which is not gelatinous at any time of 
