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edge at first a little turned in, broadly gibbous, sometimes 

 with a depression around the umbo, rather sticky, yellowish- 

 brown, apex often darker, with scattered brown scales. Veil 

 evident when young, remaining for a while as an appendi- 

 cular margin to the pileus. Gills slightly sinuately actuate, 

 moderately crowded, dark cinnamon. Stem up to 2\ inches 

 high, firm, later hollow, fibrously streaked with brown fibrils 

 below, brownish below, paler and mealy above, base a little 

 swollen. Spores dull brown, 7 x 3'6 jut, occasionally 8'5 x 

 4 it. 



Amongst grass in damp forest, Mount Wilson, Blue 

 Mountains, June, 1915 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 82; 

 Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 127). 



Pileus 3 vel 3 + cm. latus, convexus, margine initio paulo 

 involuto, lato-gibbosus, paulo viscidus, navo-fuscus, apice 

 saepe atro-fusco, squamis dispersis fuscis. Velum initio 

 evidens, deinde appendiculatum. Lamellae minime 

 sinuato-adnatae, paulo confertae, atro-cinnamoneae. 

 Stipes ad 6 cm. altus, firmus, demum tubulosus, deorsum 

 fibrillis fuscis, sursum pallido-fuscus et farinosus, base 

 paulo bulbosus. Sporae fuscae, 7-8*5 x 3*6 to 4 /a. 



Inocybe. 



Spores rough or irregular. Cystidia present. 



28. Inocybe asterospora, Quelet: Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 xxvi., p. 50; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 385; Massee: Brit. Fung. 

 Flora, ii., p. 194. — The following appears to be typical /. 

 asterospora, and is . a distinctly larger plant than the next 

 species : — Pileus 1£ inch in diameter, convex with a large 

 conical umbo, somewhat golden-brown, fibrillose. Gills adnexed, 

 nearly free, moderately close, cinnamon-brown. Stem 1^ inch 

 high, moderately stout, slightly attenuated upwards, striate, 

 pallid-brown tinted, solid, fibrous. Spores irregularly nodular, 

 7, 8"5, 8"5 x 7 il. Cystidia 40 x 12 to 14 p. 



Mount Lofty, South Australia, April, 1917. We have 

 also collected typical specimens at Bradley Head, Sydney, in 

 April, 1918. In these, the pileus was up to If inch in 

 diameter, the gills were at first dingy pallid-brown and were 

 sinuately adnexed, the stem was 2^ inches high and \ inch 

 thick and was pallid fleshy-brownish and had a slightly swollen 

 base, whilst the spores measured 8*5 to 10'4 jut, and cystidia 

 were present. On crushing, there was a strong seminal smell. 

 We have also collected specimens at Mosman (December and 

 May; formalin specimen) and Suspension Bridge, Sydney, 

 April. (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 182.) 



