oe 
head of spores is about 4 yu in diameter ; the spores are oblong 
and extremely minute, about 2°5 wu in length. 
Rhinotrichum Thwaitesi B. & Br. This fungus was found 
in great abundance on dead leaves at Savernake. The conidio- 
phores grew in coremium-like tufts. The stalk hyphae, closely 
compacted, were septate 67 w in width. Towards the top of 
the tuft they branched and spread out in a loose, fluffy manner. 
The tips of the branches were clavate, about 12 m in width, very 
delicate in texture and studded with sessile echinulate, globose 
spores 5 p in diameter. The whole plant was white, changing 
to a rosy, brick-red shade. 
Oedocephalum glomerulosum Sacc., usually recorded on 
dung, was found growing on rotten wood. 
NOTES ON TWO PHALLOIDEAE NEW TO 
EUROPE. 
By Carleton Rea, B.C.L., M.A., Se. 
WITH PLATE III. 
The Phalloideae chiefly inhabit the tropical and sub-tropical regions 
of the world, and out of about 75 species described up to the present 
time only eight have been recorded as European. These are, 
Ithyphallus impudicus Fisch., Ithyphallus imperialis Kalch., Mutinus 
caninus Fr., Mutinus bambusinus Fisch., Clathrus cancellatus Tournef., 
Colus hirudinosus Cav. & Séch., Anthurus borealis Burt variety Kiit- 
zingii P. Henn and Aseroe rubra La Billard. ‘The British list only 
includes five species, viz., Ithyphallus impudicus, Mutinus CaNninus, 
Mutinus bambusinus, Clathrus cancellatus and Aseroe rubra. ‘To these 
I have now the pleasure of adding Lyswrus australiensis Cke. & Mass., 
which was brought to me by our fellow-member, Mr. D. P. Goodwin, 
on the 14th of November, 1902, who discovered it ina pasture field 
adjacent to his flour mill at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, near to a 
spot where the refuse and dirt had been emptied out of the empty 
sacks which had probably contained Australian wheat. 
The genus Lyswrus Fr. Syst. Myc. II. p. 285 is thus defined by 
Cooke in his Handbook of Australian Fungi, and is practically the 
same as is adopted by both E. Fischer in his Phalloideen and Saccardo 
in his Sylloge : “ Receptacle stipitate, divided above in vertical lobes, 
free at the apex, distinct from the stem. Sporiferous pulp on the in- 
terior of the lobes.” And at p. 216 of the Handbook of Australian 
Fungi the Lysurus australiensis Cke. & Mass. Grev. vol. XVlii. is also 
given as a synonym for Mutinus sulcatus Cke. & Mass. described in 
Grev. vol. xvii. The description there given is, “ Receptacle 2-3 cm. 
