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Hydnum graveolens and H. tomentosus give off an 
odour similar to that of Melitotus officinalis. Cantharellus 
cibarius has a similar odour to that of Prunus armenica, 
the cultivated apricot. Quite recently Dr. J. B. Cleland 
collected some small agarics at Mosman, which we deter- 
mined as Mycena porreus, the odour of which was very 
strong, anl almost identical with that of garlic. Lactarius 
quietus and L. cyathula, both have a strong odour, re- 
sembling the common house bug, Cimex lenticularis. 
A number of agaries give off odours which are simi- 
lar to the smell of camphor, iodoform, and hydrocyanic 
acid, and of gas-tar water. 
A large number of the Phalloidew group occur fre- 
quently near human habitation, which tends to prove 
that they have become domesticated. For example, Phal- 
lus indusiatus, Lysurus Gardnert (L. australiensis), and. 
several other species are nearly always found on rubbish 
heaps or in the kitchen garden near houses. The spore- 
mass of these species is usually very vile and objectionable, 
and attracts flies, which devour the foetid hymenia and 
give the minute ingested spores a wide dissemination. Some 
of these fungi also mimic either parts of animals or animal 
excrement. 
for example, certain species of Clathrus resemble the 
entrails of some animal. ; 
Fistulina hepatica, when young, is like an animal’s 
tongue, and when old, is liver-like. In Europe the fungus 
Peziza leporina very closely resembles the ear of a rabbit. 
In Australia we have an abundance of the Jew’s-ear 
fungus (Hirneola polytricha) and H. Awricula-judaea, 
both of which resemble the human ear. 
On the northern rivers of this State, and in Queens- 
land, a minute Agaric, Marasmius equi-crinis, has sterile 
rhizomorphs, which are often mistaken for horse-hair, 
hence it is called the horse-hair fungus. 
Then we have the cauliflower fungus, Hydnum coral- 
loides and Clavaria spp., which resembles a cauliflower, 
and Morchella conica, which is very similar to small lumps 
of honeycomb. 
For further references on mimicry, see M. C. Cook 
in Grevillea, Vol. ix., p. 151; Worthington Smith, Gar- 
dener’s Chronical, February 10 (1877); C. B. Plowright, 
Grevillea, Vol. x., pp. 1-14, and p. 89. 
Mr. A. A. Hamilton, in the discussion on mimicry, 
ete., drew attention to mimicry in the British “‘Meadow 
