Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Nciv Zealand. 309 



is washed away iu rainy weather, leaving the pileus and stem 

 naked. In dry weather the pileus is shiny, due to the dried 

 gluten. Poisonous. 



41. Pholioia pudica, Bull., Champ. France, tab. 597, fig. 2, 

 E, S ; Austr. Fung., p. 44 ; Sacc., Syll. v., no. 3065. 

 Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, or even depressed, 



obtuse, even, dry, glabrous, white or slightly tinged with 

 tawny ; 2-5-8 cm. across ; gills adnexed, rounded behind, 

 ventricose, about 4 mm. broad, whitish, then tawmy ; spores 

 elliptical, 6-7 X 3-5 /a; stem 2-5-5 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick, 

 straight or most frequently curved and ascending, equal, even, 

 white, solid ; ring superior, persistent, white, spreading. 



On trunks. New Zealand. Australia, Europe. 



Simple or caespitose ; stem sometimes excentric and curved 

 at the base. According to Bulliard's figure, quoted above, the 

 pileus is pruinose at the disc. 



42. Pholiota pumila, Fries, Eleuch., p. 29 (1828); Cke., 

 Austr. Fung., p. 46; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3135. 



Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, even, hygro- 

 phanous, glabrous, ochraceous or rarely brownish-cinnamon, 

 1-1-5 cm. broad ; flesh dingy ; gills adnate, crowded, about 

 8 mm. broad, pallid-yellowish; spores 8-10 x 5-6^; stem 

 2-5-5 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, yellow, somewhat fibril- 

 lose, hollow ; ring superior, floccose, not interwoven into a 

 membrane, only forming a zone round the stem. 



On the ground, among grass and moss. New Zealand. 

 Victoria, New South Wales, Europe. 



43. Pholiota erebia, Fries, Syst. Mvc, i., p. 246 ; Flora 

 N.Z., ii., p. 174; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 602; Austr. 

 Fung., p. 43; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3050. 



Pileus convex, then flattened, glabrous, rather viscid, hygro- 

 phanous, margin striate, umber, often with an olivaceous 

 tinge, ochraceous-tan and often rugulose or wrinkled when 

 dry, 2-5-5 cm. across; flesh thin, dingy; gills adnate, rather 

 distant, about 4mm. broad, pallid, then dingy-cinnamon; 

 spores elliptical, 10-12 x 4-6 /x; stem about 5 cm. long, 

 6-8 mm. thick, equal, somewhat striate, soon pale, hollow; 

 ring superior, soon pendulous, with the margin upturned, 

 more or less striate. 



On the ground. Ahuriri, Northern Island, New Zealand. 

 Australia, Europe. 



Distinguished by the dark-umber colour of the pileus 

 when moist and the superior ring. The pileus is sometimes 

 more or less umbonate, at others shghtly depressed ; some- 

 what fragile. 



