INTRODUCTORY. 
Australia is the richest country in the world in Eycoperdaceae, 
and more strange and endemic genera are found there than in any 
other continent. Our knowledge of the subject is based on relatively 
scanty material. Probably not more than a hundred specimens have 
reached the museums of Europe and most of these are at Kew. A 
majority of the species are known only from a single collection. I do 
not feel that the knowledge we have of the subject is more than intro¬ 
ductory. The work that has been done with the Eycoperdaceae of 
Australia is mostly sporadic, scattered descriptions of supposedly “new 
species” by authors who desire to attach their names to them. The 
only systematic work is in Cooke’s Handbook of Australian Fungi, 
which is a very complete compilation of this sporadic work. The 
author of this pamphlet has spent fourteen months in the museums of 
Europe in a systematic study of all the material to be found there, and 
he has been enabled to study practically all the type specimens on 
which descriptions of Australian species have been based. In addition 
we have solicited our correspondents to send us specimens and desire 
to acknowledge our indebtedness to the following who have kindly 
forwarded specimens : 
MISS JESSIE DUNN, Wellington, N. Z. 
F. M. READER, Warraeknabeal, Victoria. 
J. T. PAUJL, Grantville, Victoria. 
W. R. GUILFOYLE, Melbourne. 
ROBERT BROWN, Christ Clmrcli, N. Z. 
R. T. BAKER, Sydney, Australia. 
J. G. O. TEPPER, Norwood, S. Australia. 
ROBERT M. LAING, Christ Church, N. Z. 
J. S. TENNANT, Ashburton, N. Z. 
WALTER GILL, Adelaide, Australia. 
W. W. WATTS, Sydney, Australia. 
We are also advised of a shipment from D. McALPINE, Melbourne, 
sent to our Paris address (107 Boulevard St. Michel) but at the time 
this pamphlet was written the package had not reached us. Specimens 
received are acknowledged in detail under the species to which they 
belong. _ 
CORRECTIONS. 
The plates and the first form were printed in the absence from home 
of the author. Several mistakes have occurred. 
Secotium melanocephalum page 7, correct to melanosporum. 
Phellorina Delastrei page 10, correct to Delestrei. 
Scleroderma verrncosum, Plate 31, correct to verrucosum. 
Castoreum radicatus, Plate 38, correct to radicatum. 
Scleroderma aurantiacum, Plate 31, correct to aurantium. 
C. G. LLOYD, 
Paris Address: 
107 Boulevard St. flichel, = = Paris, France. 
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