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striatulo-fusco-fibrillosus. Sporae elongatae, obliquae, 

 7 to 11 x 5'2 to 6'3 jul. 



40. Flammula filicea, Cooke: Seem. Journ. Bot., i., 

 p. 66, pi. iii., fig. 1; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 450; 

 Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 142. — We have re- 

 corded this species for various localities in New South 

 Wales and South Australia in the Journ. Roy. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, 1914, p. 434. Further experience emphasizes its 

 variability, and we are inclined to think that it is really only 

 an extreme form of F. sapinea, and that many of our speci- 

 mens might be classified as the latter. Our specimens vary 

 from slender small forms to large stout ones, and the cap 

 from squaniulose to villous or nearly smooth. In specimens 

 found at Neutral Bay, Sydney, in February, 1917, the cap 

 had in places a greenish hue, the rest being yellowish-brown 

 with punctate scales, whilst the base of the stem was rather 

 purplish-brown. This type, which is not uncommon, seems 

 to merge into F . purpurata, which, we think, may be only 

 a variety of F . filicea (or F. sapinea). We have the following 

 additional records and dates of F. filicea: — Sydney, several 

 localities ; Tuggerah ; National Park ; Kew — all in New 

 South Wales. January, March to July, October. 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus sometimes Mars yellow, No. 

 316, Tons 1, 2. Spores in thick masses very near bistre, No. 

 328, Ton 4; in thin masses, redder than Ton 1. 



Since these notes were written we have had a letter, in 

 answer to enquiries as to the possible relationship of F. filicea, 

 F. purpurata, and F. pur pur eo -nit ens to F. sapinea, from 

 Miss E. M. Wakefield, of Kew Herbarium. She has very 

 kindly looked into the matter as far as possible, and writes 

 as follows: — "I think it quite likely that F. filicea is only 

 a form of F % sapinea. F. pur pur eo -nit ens, however, apart 

 from the difference of colour, seems to have had a perfectly 

 smooth, shining pileus, and also has broader and browner 

 spores. We have no specimen of F . purpurata, and I have 

 never seen it; but I have never seen any trace of purple on 

 British specimens of F. sapinea." 



41. Flammula purpureo-nitens, Cooke and Massee: 

 Grev., xv., 94; Sacc. : Syll., v., 3393; Cooke: Handb. 

 Austr. Fungi, No. 266 (Vict., Q'land, W. Austr.).— We 

 have previously recorded from New South Wales (loc. cit., 

 p. 436) what we believe to be this species. It may be only 

 a dark form of F. filicea. We have the following from 

 Somersby Falls, near Gosford, New South Wales (May, 

 1915): — Pileus J inch in diameter, convex, slightly fibrous, 

 dark reddish-brown becoming blackish. Gills sinuately 

 adnexed, moderately crowded, reddish-gold, edges darker and 



