115 



usually finely serrate. Stem 1J incli high, slightly striate, 

 hollow, dark reddish-brown. Spores finely warty, 8 to 

 8*2 x 5*2 /a. On a fallen log. 



42. Flammula purpurata, Cooke and Massee: Grev., 

 xviii., p. 73; Cooke: Illustrs., p. 964; Massee: Brit. Fung. 

 Flora, ii., p. 143. — The following Flammula (pi. ix., fig. 7) is 

 evidently very close to, if it is not actually, F. purpurata. 

 It closely resembles Cooke's illustration. It is also evidently 

 near F. filicea, and perhaps the latter and F. purpurata are 

 forms of one species: — Pileus f inch across, convex, edge 

 turned in when young with remains of the veil, dark madder 

 brown with a tinge of purple, strongly villoso-fibro-scaly, in 

 one specimen the edge of the cap beyond the gills when viewed 

 from the underside against a strong light showing a greenish 

 tinge. Gills close, adnate with a decurrent tooth, pale 

 yellowish drying to a bright ferruginous. Stem 1 inch high, 

 slender to moderately stout, pallid, fibrously striate, no 

 definite trace of a ring. Spores 7 to 8 x 5'2 jtx, finely rough 

 under a 1/12-inch lens. 



On a rotten stump, Mosman, Sydney, July, 1916 (Miss 

 Clarke, Watercolour No. 130). 



43. Flammula excentrica, n. sp. (pi. xi., figs. 1 and 2). — 

 The following species, in its bright ferruginous spores and 

 general appearance resembling a Flammula but with an 

 excentric stem, has been met with on several occasions: — 

 Pileus up to 4 inches broad and 3 inches from before back- 

 wards, convex to nearly plane, rather wavy, at first yellowish- 

 tan and sometimes flecked with minute fibrous scales, finally 

 rich reddish-brown or dark reddish-tan (very dark brown 

 when dry in one specimen), sometimes paler in the centre, 

 surface dull or somewhat villous, moist looking when old. 

 Gills very crowded, at first pale yellowish-cinnamon, finally 

 rich ochreous-brown, almost auburn, reflecting the light, 

 adnate or slightly sinuate with a decurrent tooth. Stem 

 up to 2 inches long, often much less, short, excentric, attenu- 

 ated downwards, firm, sometimes hollow, brownish or reddish- 

 brown or pale yellowish-brown, fibrous or striate, no collar 

 or ring. Flesh reddish-brown. Spores bright ferruginous, 

 finely rough, 6 to 7 x 4"2 to 5'5 \x, occasionally 8*5 to 12 x 5*2 

 to 6 |a. 



On fallen logs or attached to buried wood. Neutral Bay, 

 July, 1912 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 1) ; Terrigal, 

 June, 1914; Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, April, 1915; 

 Ryde, May, 1916; Mosman, October, 1916; attached 3 feet 

 up a Melaleuca stump, Lane Cove Biver, Sydney, June, 1916 ; 

 Kendall, May, 1917— all in New South Wales. 



