AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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GASTROMYCETEA!. Willd. 
Terrestrial, rarely growing on wood, membranaceous, coriaceous, 
■or fleshy, enclosed in a variable receptacle or peridium ; fructifica- 
tion consisting of basidii spores, enclosed until maturity in the peri- 
dium ; spores continuous, spherical or ellipsoid, hyaline or coloured. 
Family /. PHALLOIDEiE. Fr. Sys. Myc. n., 281. 
Fungi between fleshy and gelatinous, erumpent from a volva ; 
hymeuium slimy, rather fleshy, and deliquescent. 
Section A. Phalle.e. Fr. Sum. Veg. Scan. 
Spore-bearing pulp on the exterior of the receptacle ; receptacle 
stipitiform (hollow), simple, or furnished with appendages to the 
pileus. 
Genus 1. DICTYOPHORA. Desv. Journ. Bot. t. ii. 
Receptacle consisting of a stem (hollow) and a pileus (externally 
reticulate J ; indusium or appendage to the stem conical, campanu- 
late, or cylindrical, net-like, depending from the upper part of the 
stem =Uytnenophallus, Fries. 
1175 . Dictyophora phalloidea. Desv. n ., p. 88. Sacc. Syll. 
vii., 2 .=Phallus indusiatus., Vent. 
Pileus thickened at the apex, at its union with the stem ; stem 
"white and lacunose, with two or three strata of cavities; indusium 
net-like, conic, or campanulate, white, arising from the lower 
margin of the pileus, and depending almost to the volva, with the 
lower margin entire ; pileus campanulate or conical, white, exter- 
nally reticulate. 
On sandy soil. Queensland. 
1176 . Dictyophora tahitensis. Schl. Linn, xxxi., p. 126. 
Fisch. Sacc. Syll. vn., 3. 
Stem cylindrical, scarcely narrowed above, walls (also above the 
insertion of the indusium) lacunose, composed of 1-3 strata of 
cavities ; indusium net-like, conical, lower margin 2-3 times wider 
than the stem, entire ; interstices medium-sized, somewhat rhom- 
boid, not depending to the base of the stem ; pileus at the apex of 
the stem without collar or distinct ring, laterally adnate, ovate, 
externally densely reticulate-rugose. 
On the ground. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
1177 . Dictyophora speciosa. Meyen., Nov. Acta, xix., p. 236. 
Sacc. Syll. vii., No. 6. 
Stem 14-16 c.m. long, attenuated gradually upwards, white; 
indusium white, net-like, arising from the stem a little below the 
margin of the pileus, dependent to the volva, spreading, campanu- 
late, lower margin entire (15 c.m. diam.) ; pileus joined to the 
stem at the apex with a short collar, campanulate, reticulate (?). 
On the ground. Queensland. 
