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NOTES ON TWO SPECIES OF PEZIZA. 
the “Black Wattles” this species flowers in favourable seasons 
twice a year, usually in the midwinter and midsummer months, 
the ripe seed being obtainable in December and in June or July. 
The flowering seasons of all Acacias, as also those of 
the Eucalypts and many other trees in this district, I have 
observed are very erratic, depending entirely on the preceding 
rainfall ; a tree in full flower in November of a certain year 
would, probably, on the next anniversary of this event have no 
flower but nearly ripe fruit and flower buds just showing, I 
have observed specimens of this species under notice, in full 
flower in January on the banks of the Condamine Kiver, while 
shrubs close at hand (of the same) were laden with ripening 
legumes. 
NOTES ON TWO SPECIES OF PEZIZA. 
BY 
G. Julian Gwyther. 
(Kead on 7th December, 1893). 
In the warm damp months of autumn, at Gladfield, 
Warwick, especially during August and September, the ordinary 
“cow-droppings” which have been exposed to wind and rain 
assume a yellowish tinge when vie^ved from a distance, and on 
closer examination are seen to be infested with examples of 
a minute yellow cup-shaped — or rather saucer-shaped — fungus 
which in a few days spreads from an individually almost 
invisible plant to one about 1^ lines in diameter. The second 
species of the same genus of fungi may not be noticed until one 
examines the mound minutely. This is of a brown wine-colour 
and grows much larger, f.^., to 3 lines in w'idth. At times both 
forms may be seen crowded together on the self-same “ drop- 
ping,” and on other occasions one may have to search diligently 
to find any specimens of the brown species at all, for this is by 
far the rarest of the two. The yellow' species is very common, 
scarcely a mound but that supports several thousands. The 
droppings of cattle almost exclusively yield these forms, and 
rarely if ever are they to be seen on those of horses. 
