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stem 6-15 cm. long, almost equal, colom-ed like the pileus, 

 with scattered fibrils or squamules, base downy. 



On mossy trunks, or on the ground near stumps. New 

 Zealand. South Africa. 



Colenso's New Zealand specimens agree exactly with the 

 type specimens of Kalchbrenner and MacOwan, now in the 

 Koyal Herbarium, Kew. 



Usually growing in small clusters. 



24. Fiammula xanthophylla, Cke. and Massee, Austr. Fung., 

 p. 50. Agaricus crociphylkis, Cke. and Mass., Grev., fo' 

 p. 1. 



Pileus subglobose, then broadly expanded but the margin 

 persistently incurved, ochraceous or with a tinge of prin\rose- 

 yellow, glabrous at first, then broken up into minute innate 

 squamules or cracked in an areolate manner, 2-5-7 cm. 

 diameter ; flesh thick, compact, rigid when dry ; gills adnate, 

 with a decurrent tooth, rather distant, very broad, bright- 

 yellow, then with a rusty tinge; spores elliptical, 10 x 6 /a; 

 stem distinctly excentric or lateral, about 2-5 cm. long, stout' 

 solid, more or less striate, coloured hke the pileus, or paler. 



On wood. Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia. 



A very distinct and well-defined species, known by the 

 broad clear-yellow gills and excentric stem. 



25. Fiammula simmosa, Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 252; Sacc 

 Syll. v., no. 3358. 



Pileus convex, then plane, sometimes rather umbonate, 

 covered with a viscid separable cuticle, ntiked (without 

 squamules or fibrils), pale-yellow, disc darker and usually 

 with a rufous tinge, even, 2-5-5 cm. across ; flesh rather 

 thin, watery, pale yellowish-green ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 pale-yellow, then ferruginous, about 3mm. broad; spores 

 yellow-brown, elliptical, 9 x 5 (m ; stem 5-10 cm. long, about 

 4 mm. thick, almost equal, more or less fibrillose, but with a 

 distinct cuticle, hollow, pale-yellow, or the colour of the 

 pileus. 



In woods, especially of Conifers, on the ground ; rare on 

 trunks. New Zealand. Austraha, Europe, United States. 



Gregarious, more or less caespitose, growing mostly on the 

 ground, but springing from buried wood or humus. Inodorous, 

 pileus yellow, stem yellow or olive-brown, often narrowed 

 downwards. Very viscid in wet weather. 



26. Fiammula penetrans, Fries, Obs. Mvc, i., p. 23 ; Austr. 

 Fung., p. 52 ; Fries, Icon., ii., p. 17, tab. 118, fig. 2 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., no. 3381. 



Gregarious or caespitose ; pileus convex, then plane, obtuse, 



