304 Transac tions . — Bo tany . 



11. Galera, Fries. 



PileiTS regular, thin, often striate, margin straight and pressed 

 to the stem when young ; gills adnate, becoming almost 

 free during expansion ; stem central ; spores rusty-ochre. 



Galera, Fries, Syst. Myc, i., p. 264 (as a subgenus of 

 Agaricus) . 



Most closely allied to Naucoria, but distinguished by the 

 thin pileus, having the pileus straight when young. Corre- 

 sponds in structure with Mycena and Nolanea. Growing on 

 the ground. 



29. Galera tenera, Schaeff., t. 70; Massee, Brit. Fung.- 



Flora, ii., p. 144, figs. 5, 6, p. 3 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3537. 



Pileus conico-campanulate, obtuse, thin, hygrophanous, 

 entirely yellowish rust-colour when moist, even, pale and 

 rather "atomate when dry, l-5-2-5cm. high and broad; gills 

 adnate, crowded, ascending, rather broad, cinnamon ; spores 

 12-13 X 7 jti.; stem 6-10 cm. high, slender, straight, fragile, 

 equal or sHghtly narrowed upwards, rather shining, striate 

 upwards, coloured like the pileus. 



Among short grass, &c. New Zealand. Australia, South 

 Africa, Europe, United States, Brazil. 



Variable in size, sometimes quite minute, at others exceed- 

 ing the measurements given above. All one colour when 

 moist, and the pileus very slightly striate; even, and pale 

 everywhere when dry. 



12. Naucoria, Fries. 



Pileus regular, shghtly fleshy, margin incurved when young ; 



gills adnexed or adnate, never decurrent ; stem central ; 



spores rusty-brown. 



Naucoria, Fries, Syst. Myc, i., p. 260 (as a subgenus of 

 Agariais). 



Differs from Galera, its nearest ally, in the margm of 

 the pileus being incurved when young. Growing on the 

 ground. 



* Pileus umbonate. 



30. Naucoria acicta, Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3456. Agaricus (Nau- 

 coria) acuta, Cooke, Grev., xiv., 841 (1886). 

 Pileus fleshy, conico-campanulate, acutely umbonate, 

 glabrous, even," opaque, ochraceous, 3-5 mm. broad ; gills 

 adnate, somewhat crowded, yellowish, then cinnamon, edge 

 paler ; spores amber, elliptical, 7-8 x 5 ^a ; stem slender, hollow, 

 equal, adpressedly fibnllose, yellowish-white, 2-5 cm. long, 

 1 mm. thick. 



On rotten logs. New Zealand. 



