112 



7"8-9 x 5-6'3 /a. Cystidia ventricosa, apicibus acumin- 

 ates, 50 x 10-5-13-5 p. 



The following form of Flammula californica, var. 

 communis, seems worthy of separate mention. Pileus up to 

 1 inch in diameter, convex, then more expanded, slightly 

 umbonate, tanny-brown becoming darker, slightly viscid when 

 young and moist. Gills at first adnate, then slightly adnexed, 

 moderately close, pallid dingy yellowish-brown becoming dingy 

 cinnamon. Stem up to 1 inch high, slender, slightly hollow, 

 slightly striate, whitish necked with small brownish scales from 

 the veil, which are also seen on the edge of the cap when 

 young. Flesh somewhat dingy. Rather caespitose. Spores 

 tawny, 7 x 4'8 jm. A few flask-shaped cystidia with rough 

 apices, 25' x 12 jm. 



On the ground, Mosman, December, 1916 (Herb., 

 J. B. C, Form. Sp., 265). 



37. Flammula fusa, Batsch : f. 189; Cooke: Illustrs., 

 pi. 433; Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 134; Cooke: 

 Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 257 (Vict.). — The following seems 

 to be this species. It has a strong resemblance to a large 

 form of our F. filicea, but grows on the ground: — Pileus 

 4 inches in diameter, nearly plane, a little rugose, tanny- 

 brown. Gills adnate with a decurrent tooth, moderately 

 close, bright ferruginous. Stem 2 \ inches high, moderately 

 stout, apparently solid, fibrously striate, pallid brownish, 

 with a fusiform root. Flesh yellowish. Spores ferruginous, 

 finely rough (1/12-inch lens), 7 x 5 /x. 



On the ground, Lisarow (N.S.W.), December, 1916. 



38. Flammula limonia, Cke. and Massee: Grev., xv., 94; 

 Sacc. : Syll., v., 3379; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 

 259. — This species is recorded by Cooke for "Victoria, Cudge- 

 gong River, and Lake Bonney." The following, collected on 

 rich soil at Beaumont, near Adelaide, in September, 1913. 

 and on road-sweepings, Adelaide, in July, 1914, appear to 

 be it: — Pileus up to 4 inches in diameter, hemispherical, 

 then gradually expanded, finally with the edge upturned, 

 when young brownish-yellow, glutinous, finally a pale lemon- 

 yellow, edge sometimes obscurely striate. Gills adnate, 

 ventricose, rather crowded, pallid white becoming greyish 

 with a brown tint, finally when old a dark greyish or earthy 

 brown. Stem up to 3 inches high, whitish or pale yellow, 

 attenuated slightly downwards, sometimes shaggy-scaly 

 towards the base, fibrously rooting below, stuffed in one 

 collection, markedly hollow in another. Veil in one collection 

 leaving ragged remains on the edge of the pileus and on the 

 stem, absent in the other. Occasionally slightly caespitose. 



