OV AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 



Habitat. 



W.A. 



General Characters. 



ORDER I.-AGARICACE^.-PRIES, PL. HOMON. 65 (1825). 



Agaricus, Amanitopsis. 



Hattsv. I. 6 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 

 Ground ... 

 Sandy soil 

 Woods 

 Ground ... 

 Sandy soil, woods, 

 Woods 

 Ground ... 



Moist woods 



&c. 



(1879). — Agaricus, Amanit.T. 



Tent. Disp. 68 (1797).— Agaricus. 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



Woods and under 

 trees 



Ground, trunVcs 



Sandy soil 



Ground, in scorched 

 places 



Cow-dung, &c. 



Ground ... 



Ground ... 



TrunlfS ... 



Woods and hot- 

 houses 



Fields, hiwns,&c. ... 



Ground ... 



Pastures ... 



Dung 



Woods .and heaths ... 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 

 Ground ... 



Ground ... 

 Ground ... 



Chips of wood buried 



in ground 

 Ground ... 

 Fields 

 Ground 

 Charred ground, 



under Kucalyptiis 

 Sandy ground 

 I'astures ... 



Shady pastures 



Broad, smooth, shining, breaking into distinct angular spaces or areola; 



at tlie centre, each bearing a conical w.art ; pine-apple-lilse. 

 White. Thick, fleshy, warted. Stem bulbous ; ring obsolete. 

 Delicate. Witliout separ.able cuticle, dry, primrose, white, or buff. 

 Bell shaped, shining, mouse coloured. Stem thin, straight, whitisli. 

 Large. Grange scarlet, elotlied with scattered warts. Very common. 

 White. Hemispherical, margin inflexed. Edible. 

 Fleshy, viscid. Stem stuffed, mealy, rooting. 

 Rough, with minute crowded mealy warts, amber grey, 

 llemiapherical, covered with large iiersistent obtusely-conical warts, 



arranged after tlie manner of a flr-cone, ochrey yellow. 

 Snow white, beautiful, viscid. Appearing in spring and summer. 



Ochrey white. Stem short, Ijulbous, brick red. 



White and mealy. Fleshy, sprinkled with erect prominent warts, chiefly 



at disc. 

 Ochrey yellow, clad with scattered broad unequal warts, which soon 



fall away. 

 Vermilion, clad with irregular deciduous whitish warts. Stem hollow, 



white. 

 Size and colour very v.ariable, grey, brown, &c. Thin, margin 



membranaceous, deeply furrowed. Common. Edible. 



Hemispherical, pallid yellow, often deep orange, rough with warts. 

 Large. Slightly fleshy, viscid. Stem long, club shaped downwards. 

 Spongy, rough about apex with little scales. Stem long, minutely 



warted. 

 Snow white. Cap ovate to hemispherical. Stem thickened downw.ards. 

 Sub-membr.anaceous, mealy .and scaly, yellow. Stem hollow and bulbous. 

 Chalky white, with ilarker scales. 



Snow white. Thin, powdery. Stem thickened downwards ; mealy. 

 Slender. Fleshy, variable in colour, yellowish or piukish. Common. 



Small and delicate. Slightly fleshy, whitish yellow, red scales. 

 Fleshy, centre smooth, otherwise wilh point-like scales, margin torn. 

 Small and delicate. Fleshy, pale-fawn colour. Cuticle thin, breaking 



up into scattered papilla". Edible. 

 Fleshy, thin, pallid, ornamented with darker scales Stem slender, 



scaly below. 

 Small. Fleshy, tawny or dull reddish yellow, mealy .and granular. 

 Kather fleshy, mealy, greyish-blue or dove colour. Stem cylindrical, 



whitish. 

 Tawny, with ii few pallid warts, minutely tomentose or downy. 

 Kather fleshy, white, sprinkled with minute reddish scales, yellow on 



drying. 

 Membraiiaceous, lemon coloured, folded and furrowed, margin notched. 

 Whitish brown. Kather fleshy, umbj or boss acute, scales papillate. 



Edible. 

 Membranaceous, thin, pale-cream colour. Stem slender, hollow. 



Slender. Rather fleshy, tawny. Stem even and smooth, as well as cap. 

 Whitish. Fleshy, silky. Stem short, almost hollow, thickened .at base. 

 Spores globose. 

 Rather fleshy, mealy, rufous with a tawny tinge. Stem slender, cyhn- 



drical 

 Fleshy, p.ale ochre, variegated with darker concentric scales. 

 Large and tall, very sbiiggy, brownish. Fleshy, cuticle thick and torn 



up into broad evanescent scales. Edible. 

 Very large. Fleshy, grey, cuticle thin, broken into persistent brown 



scales. Edible. 



