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but if so it is probably the true G. tenera. For the present, 

 however, we leave them all under G. tenera. We thus describe 

 our specimens: — Pileus f to 1 inch broad by § inch high, 

 conical, then conico-campanulate, when moist dark watery 

 brown to ferruginous and finely striate, drying from the centre 

 to a pale yellowish-brown or fawny-white and becoming 

 atomate, apex sometimes more rufous when dry, edge not 

 turned in when young, in one collection the cap noted as 

 slightly viscid when young. Gills adnate to just free, 

 ascending, narrow, moderately close, reddish-brown to 

 yellowish-cinnamon. Stem up to 3 inches or more high, 

 slender, wavy, polished, sometimes finely striate, pallid with 

 a rufous tinge to pale brownish with a darker base, sometimes 

 hollow, not rooting. No smell. -Spores yellc^wish-brown, 

 oval, thick walled, 12*5 to 20 x 8 to 11*5 jx. 



On dung, occasionally on manured soil or grassy ground. 

 Mosman, Sydney, May; Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 

 February, April, May, June; Ryde, Sydney, May; Orange, 

 October — all in New South Wales (Miss Clarke, Watercolour 

 No. 23). Adelaide, July. 



48. Galera campanuluta, Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., 

 p. 145; G. siligenea, Fr., in Cooke's Illustrs., pi. 1156. — 

 We refer the following with some doubt to this species. It 

 has been found coming up in grass and lawns, whilst G. 

 tenera appears chiefly on dung : — Pileus § inch x § inch to 

 f- inch x J inch, conical, then expanding to become broadly 

 conical, pale brownish-fawn or pale tan or very pale fawnish- 

 white, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes with a dark-tan umbo, 

 finely striate, in one collection slightly sticky. Gills just 

 adnexed to adnate (one collection), close, narrow, yellowish 

 to reddish-brown or pale fawn. Stem If to 2 inches high, 

 white to whitish, silky, finely striate, base slightly bulbous, 

 attenuated upwards, hollow. Spores 10'5 to (occasionally) 

 13'8 or 15-5 x 7*3 to 8*5 /x. 



Sydney, February and March, 1914 ; Hawkesbury River, 

 November, 1914 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 40) ; Ade- 

 laide, September, 1913; Neutral Bay, Sydney, December, 

 1916 (cap apparently not hygrophanous). 



The spores of our specimens referred to G. tenera are 

 usually distinctly larger than those of this species, whilst in 

 formalin specimens of the two the tinted stem of the former 

 can be easily recognized when compared with the white one 

 of this species. 



49. Galera rubiginosa, Pers. : Syn., p. 385; Cooke: 

 Illustrs,, pi. 464b; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii. p. 148. — 

 Though the following species (pi. xi., fig. 7) has spores a 

 little broader and, from Cooke's illustration, gills more 



