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and fibrously streaked and mealy, sometimes with whitish 

 fibrillose scales at the base. Spores pale brown, smooth, 

 oblique, sometimes rather triangular, 6*8 to 8'5 x 5'2 jut. 

 Cystidia numerous, thick walled, ventricose or fusiform, often 

 elongated, 25 to 70 x 8'5 to 17 /x. 



Gregarious on the ground. Mount Irvine (N.S.W.), 

 June, 1915; Bumberry (N.S.W.), October, 1916; Mount 

 Lofty (S.A.), July, 1914; Neutral Bay, Sydney, May, 1915 

 (gills just adnexed, dingy cinnamon, edges white and very 

 finely serrate; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 105). 



Colour tints noted': — Pileus near snuff-brown (deep 

 bistre), No. 303, Ton 1; apex of cap near raw umber, No. 

 301, Ton 4, periphery shading to pallid. 



34. Inocybe australiensis, n. sp. (pi. x., fig. 2). — Pileus 

 up to \ inch in diameter, convex, sometimes somewhat 

 umbonate, covered in a rather echinulate way with dark 

 brown, almost black, projecting fibrous scales, which are wart- 

 like above and more imbricate below. Gills adnexed, crowded, 

 cinnamon or dark brown. Stem 1^ inch high, pallid brown 

 to dark brown, mealy above, solid, base a little swollen. 

 Spores brown, smooth, oblique, 6 to 7 x 4 to 5 jtx. Cystidia 

 numerous, ventricose or narrow ventricose, 42 to 70 x 8'5 

 to 10*5 /a. 



Neutral Bay, Sydney, May, 1915 (Herb., J. B. C, Form. 



Sp., 106; Chatswood, Sydney, May, 1916 (Miss Clarke, 



Watercolour No. 96) ; Sydney. 



Pileus ad 1*5 cm. latus, convexus, interdum paulo umbonatus, 

 squamis subnigris fibrosis vestitus. Lamellae adnexae, 

 confertae, cinnamoneae vel atro-fuscae. Stipes 3 cm. 

 altus, pallido-fuscus aut fuscus, sursum farinosus, non 

 tubulosus, base minime bulbosa. Sporae fuscae, glabrae, 

 obliquae, 6-7 x 4-5 /x. Cystidia ventricosa vel angusto- 

 ventricosa, 50-70 x 10*5, 42 x 8'5 jut,. 



Flammula. 



35. Flammula carhonaria, Fries. : Syst. Myc, i., p. 252; 

 Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 442; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., 

 p. 133. — The following seems best referable to this species, 

 though it is smaller, and has cystidia which are not men- 

 tioned in descriptions of the species : — Pileus ^ to 1 inch in 

 diameter, convex, edge turned in when young, dark tan to 

 chestnut, periphery paler, in one collection with a teat-like 

 umbo. Gills adnate, moderately crowded, pallid then dark 

 cinnamon, edge noted as finely toothed in the Dubbo speci- 

 mens. Stem 1 inch high, whitish to pallid, sometimes with 

 brownish fibrils, stuffed. Taste not bitter. Spores yellow- 

 brown, 6*8 to 8'2 x 3*5 to 5 /x; cystidia fringing the edge of 



