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A. cervinus. — Pileus 3in. broad, campanulate, soft, white. 

 Stem 3in. long, white, solid. Gills separate from stems, 

 flesh-coloured. On old logs, Walhalla. 



Sub-Genus Clitophilus. — Hymenophorum confluent with stem. 

 Gills decurrent. 

 A. cancrinus. — Pileus lin. broad, white, smooth. Stem lin. 

 long, thick, white, stuffed. Gills decurrent. In grass, 

 Glenmaggie. 



Sub-Genus Pholiota. — Stem furnished with ring. 



A. pudicus. — On old trunks, Toongabbie. Pileus fleshy, 

 convex, dry. Stem solid. Ring persistent. Gills 

 tawny. 



Sub-Genus Hebeloma. — Veil, if present, floccose, not inter 

 woven. Stem fleshy. Gills sinuated. 

 A. mesopheus. — On ground, Albert Park. Pileus lin. broad, 

 whitish yellow, convex. Stem 3in. long, hollow, tough. 

 Gills emarginate. rusty coloured. 



Sub-Order Flammula. — Stem fleshy. Gills adnate or decurrent. 

 A. hybridus. — In Albert Park, on half rotted branch. Pileus 



yellowish tawny, convex, 2in. broad. Stem 2in. 



Hollow or partly stuffed, whitish, attenuated upwards. 



Gills adnate, light yellow, growing in bunches. 

 A. sapineus. — In Albert Park. Pileus bright tawny yellow, 



convex. Stem short, thick, and solid. Gills adnate, 



coespitose. 

 Sub-Order Tubaria. — Stem somewhat cartilaginous, fistulose. 



Gills somewhat decurrent. 

 A . furftiraceus, Pers. — Walhalla, in musk gullies on rotten 



twigs. Pileus pale brown, rough, convex. Stem lin. 



high, hollow. Gills partly decurrent. 



Sub-Order Naucoria. — Stem cartilaginous externally, convex. 

 Pileus inflexed. 

 A. pediades, Fr. — Moe road, in grass. Pileus yellow, 2in. 

 broad, planoconvex. Stem 3in. high, stuffed, tough. 

 Gills adnexed, 



Sub-Order Galera. — Stem cartilaginous externally. Pileus cam- 

 panulate. Margin straight. 

 A. hypnorum. — Latrobe River, amongst moss. Very small, 

 pale yellow, campanulate. Stem ain. high, hollow and 

 rigid. Gills adnate. 



Sub- Order Crepidotus. — Pileus eccentric, thin, with soft flesh. 

 Spores distinctly rusty coloured. 

 A. alveolus. — In Long Tunnel Mine, Walhalla, on old 

 timber. White, with olive margin. No proper stem. 

 Gills not decurrent, but end abruptly, very broad. 



