Massee. — 0)1 the Fungus Flora of Neiv Zealand. 293 



pale dingy ochraceous when dry, 'J-5-5 cm. broad ; gills 

 adnata, 4-6 mm. broad, greyish-black, margin the same 

 colour ; spores elliptical, apiculate, 9-10 x 6 /^ ; stem 6-12 cm. 

 high, about 4 mm. thick, often rather flexuous, equal, smooth, 

 pallid, hollow ; ring imperfect, usually only indicated by a 

 pale zone round the stem above the middle. 



On dung, &c. New Zealand. Australia, Europe, United 

 States. 



• Solitary, gregarious, or clustered. Differs from Anellaria 

 separata in colour, and in the very imperfect ring, and in this 

 last character connects the genera Anellaria and Panceokts. 

 Differs from Goprimis in the gills not being deliquescent. 



3. Pangeolus, Fries. 



Pileus regular, rather thin, never striate, margin extending 

 beyond the end of the gills ; gills adnexed, grey, then 

 mottled with the black spores ; stem central, without ring 

 or volva ; spores black. 



Panceolus, Fries, Epicr., p. 234 (as a subgenus ot Agar icus). 

 Distinguished amongst the Melanosijorce by the even, non- 

 striate pileus, and the absence of ring and volva on the stem. 

 In Psathyrella the pileus is striate, and the gills black, not 

 mottled ; in Anellaria there is a ring on the stem, whereas in 

 Coprinus the gills deliquesce into a black, inky liquid at 

 maturity. Growing on dung or richly manured ground. 



6. PancBoLus papiltonaceus, Fries, Epicr., p. 136 ; Austr. 



Fung., p. 67; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 4547. 



Pileus slightly fleshy, almost exactly hemispherical, obtuse, 

 even, glabrous, the cuticle often becoming broken up into 

 minute squamules when dry, pale-grey, with a tinge of rufous, 

 especially at the disc, l-5-2-5cm. across; gills broadly adnate, 

 very broad, up to 6 mm., plane, at length blackish with the 

 spores; spores elliptical, 11-12 x 7 yu, ; stem 6-10 cm. long, 

 4 mm. thick, equal, smooth, whitish, apex powdered with 

 white meal, hollow. 



On dung, manured ground, &c. New Zealand. Australia, 

 Ceylon, Europe, Siberia, Central Africa, United States. 



Distinguished from some closely allied species — not yet 

 met with in New Zealand — by .the obtuse hemispherical 

 pileus, broadly adnate broad gills; and whitish stem, powdered 

 with white primrose meal at the apex. 



4. Psathyrella, Fries. 



Pileus regular, thin, striate, margin straight and pressed to 

 the stem when young, not extending beyond the end of 

 the gills ; gills free or adnexed, not deliquescent ; stem 

 central ; spores black. 



