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The QueenslaiiH Naturalist. 
July. 1920 
TWO INTERESTING FUNGI. 
]-)V C. T. White, F.L.S., Government Botanist. 
No group of fungi possesses more brilliant colouring or 
shapes more bizarre and at the same time beautiful, than that 
known as the Phalloidccc (Phalloids). Owing to the great 
variability or, rather, perhaps, what is considered the great 
variabihty of the species, the distinctions between many of 
the named sorts are not at all clear. In a like manner, the 
genera generally accepted are not in all cases clearly defined, 
so that intermediates often occur which are difficult to place 
generically. Thus, the plants we have under review have 
at different times been placed under the genera Lysiirus, 
Coins and Mutvnus. 
A not uncommon form in Southern Queensland is the 
species named by the late F. M. Bailey as Mttfiniis penta- 
goniis. This has been united by Cleland and Cheel, the well- 
known students of Australian mycology, with L. Gardncri— 
a conclusion in which, however, I cannot agree, as the 
distinctions, in this case at least, betw^een the two plants 
appear to me very well marked and distinct. But at the 
same time I think that Bailey's species, by its possession of 
definite receptacle arms, is undoubtedly a Lysunis, and 
propose the name of L. pcntagoniis for it. The distinctions 
between the two forms appear to be as follo\vs: — 
Stem cylindrical, wdiite, arms free or rarely two 
united (L. Garducri) . 
Stem distinctly angled, pink or red arms united at 
the top (L. pentagonus). 
Both species have appeared a good deal in literature, 
the principal references being: — Lysiirus Gardner) Berke- 
ley in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. V. {1846) 535, Tab. 17, fig. 
2; Lloyd. Myc. Notes 31, p. 407, fig. 243 (an excellent 
series of photographs) ; “ Synopsis of the Known Phalloids ’ 
(1909) p. 37 figs. 38 and 38a; Cleland and Cheel. Proc. 
Roy. Soc. N.S.W. XLIX. "(1915) 204 p. i, 24 fig. b; 
L. aiistralicnsis Cooke and ]\hassee in Grevillea XV HI. 
(1889) 6; Cooke Flandl). Aus. Fungi (1892) 216 pi. 4 fig. 
102: Saccardo Sylloge Fungormn IX. 264; Cheel Proc. 
Linn. Soc. XXXVUI. (1913) 308 ; Lloyd Phallokls of 
Austr. (1907) p. 14 fig. 13; "Synopsis of the Known 
Phalloids" (1909) p. 38 fig. 39; Bailey Compreh. Cat. 
Queens. Plants (1913) P. 745, fig- 808; L. tenuis IPAley in 
Queens. Agric. Journ. XXVTI. (1911) 306 ( with a text 
