93 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus at the periphery when moist 

 near brownish-terracotta, No. 322, Ton 2, with darker lines, 

 in the centre darker than mineral brown, No. 339, Ton 4. 

 Gills near hazel, No. 324, Ton 4. Ring, yellowish-buff, No. 

 310, Ton 2. Spore mass rather browner than yellow ochre, 

 No. 326, Ton 2. 



5. Pholiota eriogena, Fries.: PI. Preiss, ii., 132; Sacc. : 

 Syll., v., 3128; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 

 230. Previously recorded, Western Australia. — The 

 description given by Cooke of P. eriogena, Fr., in 

 PI. Preiss., is very short and will probably fit a number of 

 species. As it is based on Australian plants, we refer the 

 following species to it to avoid multiplication of specific 

 names. Our plants agree well with the description and plates 

 of P. discolor of Peck. Pileus \ to 1 inch in diameter, con- 

 vex, sometimes irregular, dark brown or reddish-brown 

 becoming pale tan or reddish-tan, slightly viscid and not 

 striate (one collection; Blue Mountains), edge at first turned 

 in. Gills adnate, moderately crowded, light or reddish-brown ., 

 Stems 1 to \\ inch high, pallid becoming brownish or brown, 

 at first mealy, slightly striate, slightly hollow, base slightly 

 enlarged with a white mycelial attachment. Superior ring 

 not very marked and evanescent. Spores pear-shaped, 7 to 

 7"8 x 5 \l. 



On wood, single, Blue Mountains, May, 1914; Terrigal, 

 June, 1914; Bulli, May, 1914— all in New South Wales. 



6. Pholiota unicolor, Flora Danica, t. 1071, fig. 1; 

 Cooke: Handb. Brit. Fungi, p. 149; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 

 356b. — We place the following species under P. unicolor, 

 though it has resemblances to P. marginata. In Cooke's 

 Illustrations of the former, the small specimens show umbona- 

 tion, whilst in ours even large ones show prominent umbos. 

 Our specimens also seem to be larger than P. unicolor, whilst 

 the gills cannot be called triangular. The plants grow singly, 

 whilst in P. unicolor they are said to be subcaespitose and in 

 P. marginata solitary or gregarious. Pileus up to 1^ inch 

 in diameter, convex, at first deep reddish-tan to w.atery yellow- 

 brown, drying to a pale brown, edge finely striate when moist, 

 smooth, umbonate, sometimes acutely so. Gills adnate or 

 with a decurrent tooth, reddish-brown to pallid cinnamon 

 becoming dingy cinnamon, moderately close. Stem 1| inch 

 high, slightly attenuated upwards, base a little swollen, 

 covered with whitish-mealy fibrils, brownish below, solid. 

 Ring moderately distant, marked or sometimes slight. Spores 

 75 to 10'4 x 4 to 5'2 ju,. 



