Masseb. — On the Fungus Flora of Netv Zealand. 303 



often irregular, even, glabrous, surface not becoming broken 

 up, dry, minutely silky under a lens when young, golden- 

 tawny, but becoming pale and yellowish when old, 4-8 cm. 

 across ; flesh pallid, thickish at the disc, thinning out towards 

 the margin ; gills adnate and subdecurreut when young, often 

 separating from the stem when old, 4-6 mm. broad, crowded, 

 white, then yellow, stained and spotted with brown when old ; 

 spores elliptical, obliquely apiculate, 8 x 4-5 yu,; stem 5-8 cm. 

 long, up to 1cm. thick, firm, equal, silky, then fibrillosely 

 striate, yellowish, base with white down, sometimes rooting, 

 imperfectly hollow ; veil flocculose, white, but very fugacious 

 and scarcely evident. 



On rotten wood. Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, 

 Europe, Siberia, Cuba, United States. 



A very showy fungus, distinguished in the genus by the 

 clear tawny-orange pileus and yellow gills becoming spotted 

 with brown. 



*** Gills decurrent. 



27. Flanwiula hyperion, Cke. and Massee, Grev., vol. xvi., 

 p. 72 ; Austr. Fung., p. 50 ; Sacc, Syli., suppl. ix., 

 no. 438. 



Pileus subglobose when young, then plano-convex, finally 

 flattened, even, glabrous, tawny-orange, then reddish or 

 brownish-orange, 4-8 cm. across; flesh 2-3 mm. thick, yellow- 

 ish ; gills decurrent, arcuate, rather distant, ochraceous, then 

 tawny ; spores 16-18 x 6-8 [x ; stem about 5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. 

 thick, becoming slightly thinner downwards, longitudinally 

 grooved or striate, fibrillose and rather scaly, coloured like the 

 pileus or paler. 



On wood. New Zealand. Australia. 



A very fine large species, and well marked, not approaching 

 any other Australasian species. The spores are exceptionally 

 large for a Flammula. 



28. Flammula ymosa. Bull., Champ. France, tab. 54; Cke., 

 Austr. Fung., p. 49; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3323. 



Pileus 2-4 cm. broad, centre very fleshy, becoming very 

 thin at the margin, flesh white, convex, then expanded, at 

 length often depressed and flexuous or wavy at the margin, 

 dry, minutely flocculose, obscure rusty-cinnamon, usually with 

 a tinge of purple ; gills crowded, decurrent, simple, narrow, 

 yellowish, then rusty; spores pale - umber, 5 x 3/a; stem 

 about 2-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick, equal or thickened at the 

 base, pale, delicately flocculose, solid. 



On the ground. New Zealand. Victoria, Europe. 



