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9. Tutoaria, W. G. Smith. 



Pileus regular, thin ; gills more or less decurrent, broadest 



behind, or near the stem, hence somewhat triangular ; 



stem central, hollow ; spores rusty. 



Tubaria, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot., 1870. 



The species are small and delicate; known amongst the 

 OchrosporcB by the more or less decurrent, triangular gills. 

 Corresponds in structure to Eccilia in the Bhodos2)orcB, and 

 Omphalia in the Leucospora. Growing on the ground. 



16. Tubaria furfuracea, Pers., Syn., p. 454; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 57 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3584. 



Pileus rather fleshy at the disc, convex, then plane, mar- 

 gin spreading, at length depressed or umbilicate, yellowish- 

 cinnamon, paler and hoary -or silky-squamulose, due to the 

 breaking-up of the cuticle when dry, 1-5-5 cm. acr-oss ; gills 

 adnato-decurrent, rather distant, about 3 mm. broad, cin- 

 namon ; spores elliptical, 10 x 6 /x ; stem 2-5 cm. long, 

 2-4 mm. thick, rigid, usually paler than the stem, minutely 

 flocculose, base surrounded with white down, hollow. 



On twigs, chips, &c., lying on the ground. Dannevirke, 

 New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, Europe, United 

 States, Brazil. 



Distinguished by the cinnamon colour of every part when 

 moist, becoming almost white when dry, and the surface being 

 very minutely broken up into squamules. 



17. Tubaria inquilina, Fries, Syst. Mvc, i.. p. 264 (1821); 

 Cke., Hdbk. Austr. Fung.; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3597. 

 Pileus 1-2 cm. across, membranaceous, convex, then plane, 



at length more or less umbonate, hygrophanous, glabrous, 

 slightly viscid, striate when moist, livid brown, tawny or 

 hoary tan when dry ; gills slightly decurrent, very broad 

 behind, triangular, rather distant, brownish-tan, then umber ; 

 spores elliptical, dusky ferruginous, 8 x 4 /t^ ; stem about 

 2-5 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, thinner towards the base, 

 tough, bay, covered at first with whitish fibrils and with 

 white down at the base, hollow, often flexuous. 



On twigs, chips, &c., lying on the ground. New Zealand. 

 New South Wales, Europe. 



Closely allied to Tttbaria crobula ; smaller, pileus striate 

 when moist, glabrous from the first, and stem soon glabrous 

 ai'e the principal distinctive features. 



18. Tubaria crobula. Fries, Epicr., p. 299; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 3596. 



Pileus shghtly fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, slightly 

 viscid, not striate, at first covered with white floccose scales. 



