300 Transactions. — Botany. 



then naked and hoary, tan-colour, 1-2 cm. across ; gills 

 slightly decurrent, 2-3 mm. broad, crowded, rusty-brown; 

 spores elliptical, rusty-brown, 10 x 6/u.; stem 2-3 cm. long, 

 2-3 mm. thick, often incurved or more or less wavy, brownish, 

 covered with white floccose scales like the pileus, hollow. 



On fragments of twigs, &c., lying on the ground in damp 

 places. Dannevirke, New Zealand. Ceylon, Europe, 



Distinguished from Tubaria furfuracea by the shghtly 

 viscid pileus, and by the densely scaly stem, which often bears 

 more or less evident traces of a ring. 



10. Plammula, Fries. 



Pileus regular, fleshy, margin incurved when young ; gills 

 decurrent, becoming rust-coloured when mature ; stem 

 central ; veil fibrillose, never forming a distinct ring on the 

 stem ; spores ferruginous. 



Flammula, Fries, Syst. Myc. i., p. 250 (as a subgenus of 

 Agaricus) . 



Closely aUied to Pholiota, the difi'erence between the two 

 genera depending on the relative development of the veil, 

 which in the present genus is fibrillose, and does not form a 

 distinct ring on the stem, whereas in Pholiota the veil is inter- 

 woven, and forms a definite ring. Most species grow on 

 wood ; colours bright, orange-brown or yellow being most 

 frequent. Growing on trunks, stumps, &c. Some tire destruc- 

 tive parasites. 



* Gills adnexed. 



19. Flammula purpureo-niiens, Cke. and Mass., Grev., vol. xv., 

 p. 94 (1887); Cke., Austr. Fung., p. 53 ; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 3393. 



Pileus convex, fleshy, smooth, shining, purple - brown, 

 margin even, about 2-5 cm. broad; gills adnexed, rather dis- 

 tant, broad, ferruginous ; spores elliptical, tinted cinnamon- 

 colour, 8 X 5/u,; stem 5cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, equal, 

 ascending, fibrillose, soHd, paler than the pileus, flesh pallid. 



On wood. New Zealand. Victoria, Queensland, Western 

 Australia. 



20. Flammula hrunnea, Massee, sp. nov. 



Pileus subglobose, then expanding until almost plane, 

 margin usually drooping, slightly umbonate, sometimes de- 

 pressed round the umbo, 1-3 cm. across, even, glabrous, 

 uniform dark-brown; flesh thin, pale greenish-yellow; gills 

 adnexed, becoming almost or quite free as the pileus expands, 

 crowded, rather broad, rusty-brown at maturity ; spores elhp- 

 tical, 5 X 3 /A, rusty ; stem 3-7 cm. long, slender, almost 

 equal, paler than the pileus, almost or quite smooth. 



