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straw and adnate, finally slightly sinuate and nearly free 

 (S.A.), in the New South Wales specimens adnate with a 

 trace of decurrence, moderately close, rather narrow, pale 

 salmony-brown becoming more cinnamony, finally rich rusty 

 brown. Stem when adult up to 6 inches high, 1^ to 2 inches 

 broad, becoming bulbous below and then contracting into a 

 conical root, white, slightly fibrous, solid, with large ragged 

 fragments of a rather superior ring, and below this the 

 remains of the universal veil (volva) are usually distinguish- 

 able (S.A.). The New South Wales (1918) specimens show a 

 sheathing base to the lower two-thirds of the stem, comprised 

 of superimposed split layers of the universal veil seen in the 

 young plant, surmounted by a broad upwardly-concave per- 

 sistent ring. Stem (N.S.W.) attached to white mycelial 

 threads traversing the ground and forming indefinite masses. 

 Flesh tough, white. No smell. Spores in the mass rich 

 ferruginous brown, microscopically yellow-brown, oblique, 

 with pointed ends, 8'5 to 10*5 x 5 to 6 /m. 



On the ground under trees, sometimes subcaespitose. 

 Found in exactly the same spot, forming a colony some 20 

 yards in diameter, about 1^ miles due west of Mount Lofty, 

 South Australia, in May, 1910, and April, 1917. We also 

 have a specimen, locality not noted, from New South Wales, 

 and in May, 1918, at Wauchope and Kendall found several 

 colonies in forests. 



Pileus ad 20 cm. latus, convexus, plerumque late gibbosus, 



interdum in umbone depressus, aliquanto glaber, albidus 



sed fuscum tinctus. Lamellae juventute substramineae,. 



adnatae, demum minime sinuatae et stipite paene dis- 



junctae, modice confertae, subfulvae, mox cinnamoneae, 



demum ferrugineae. Stipes ad 15 cm. altus, 2'5 cm. 



crassus, basi sensim bulbosus, albidus, subfibratus, 



annulo subsuperiore. Volva imperfecta. Sporae per- 



ferrugineae, obliquae, 8'5-10'5 x 5-6 ju-. 



Colour tints noted : New South Wales — Pileus shows 



tints of pale-yellowish flesh, No. 68; gills near snuff-brown 



(deep bistre), No. 303, at first Ton 1, then Ton 3. South 



Australia — Spore mass and dried gills near bistre, No. 328, 



Ton 4. 



Pholiota. 



2. Pholiota disrupta, Cooke and Massee : Grev., xix. r 

 89; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 220. Previously 

 recorded, Victoria. — The following description of a plant 

 collected by us agrees fairly well with that of P. disrupta 

 given by Cooke in his Handb. of Austr. Fungi (No. 220) : — 

 "Stout. Pileus 4| inches across, slightly convex, smooth or 



