NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF TERTIARY LIMESTONES. 
Description of the borings of P. tuberosa . — Found in shell frag- 
ments which are generally more or less water-worn. Perforations 
(A type), at first slender, entering the shell at right angles to the 
shell surface or nearly so,* subsequently becoming slightly tortuous, 
and tending to give off short branches, gradually increasing in 
width until terminated by a blunt or swollen end ; colour, amber 
yellow. Other perforations in association (B type), commencing as 
an extremely fine short tube, which suddenly develops a more or 
less globular termination (? sporangium). Colour, deep reddish 
brown. Tubes and terminal swellings usually more or less filled 
with granular material, probably of the nature of spores, some of 
which are also seen scattered in the neighbourhood of the (?) sporan- 
gium. As mentioned above, no distinct septation of the vegetative 
structure visible, but occasional constrictions occur through the 
course of the tube. The borings average 13 micra in diameter, 
and 86 micra in length ; sub-globose terminations averaging 18 
micra in diameter. 
Observations. — The shortness of the perforations and their charac- 
teristic clavate terminals serve to distinguish the present form 
from Duncan’s Palaeachlya perforans ,f" which that author found 
very widely distributed in geological time ; one example described 
having occurred in a foraminifer of Ordovician age.i 
MM. Bomet and Flahault§ have described a boring organism, 
Lithopythium, which they refer to the fungi. Their species, L. 
queketti, bears certain resemblances to the above form ; . it has a 
tortuous and filamentous thallus, with globular sporangia at the 
terminations and outer angles of the sinuses. It differs, however, 
in the closely interlacing habit of the thallus and the perfec y 
g With regard" to Australian occurrences of Palaeachlya,, Mr. R. 
Etheridge, jum, has described P. tortuosa as a parasitic species 
within a Queensland monticulipond of Carbo-pernuan age.| The 
chief characters of that species are, a flexuous tube, circular m 
section, with the terminations irregularly enlarged and with oc- 
casional swellings along the course of the tube 
instituted by Etheridge is P.torquis,^ found m the J^amXrth 
a snecies of Favosites from the Devonian limestone of Tamwortfi, 
New South Wales. This form consists of slender contorted tute, 
filled with yellow granular matter, and having a diameter of 01 mm. 
It will be seen that the tube of this species is comparable m size to 
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