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broadly attached, it seems undoubtedly to be the Australian 

 representative of G. rubiginosa : — Pileus § inch broad and 

 high, conico-campanulate, obtusely umbonate, dark chestnut 

 when moist, tan coloured when dry, coarsely ribbed to the 

 umbo. Gills adnate, broad, moderately distant, dark reddish- 

 brown. Stem 1\ inch high, slender, dark brown, slightly 

 hollow. Spores yellow-brown, finely rough under 1-12-inch 

 lens, obliquely oval, 10'5 to 11 x 7*5 jm. 



Amongst moss on rocks, Mosman, July, 1916 (Miss 

 Clarke, Watercolour No. 132). 



50. Galera hypnorum, Batsch : f. 26; Cooke: Illustrs., 

 pi. 465a; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 149; Cooke: 

 Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 286 (Vict., S. Austr.).— Though 

 the following species (pi. xi., fig. 8) has the edge somewhat 

 turned in when young, we nevertheless believe it to be a 

 Galera and the Australian representative of G. hypnorum: — 

 Pileus \ inch broad and 5/16 inch high, conico-campanulate, 

 without a definite umbo, dark yellow-brown drying to a 

 pallid tan, striate, edge a little turned in when young so 

 that the cap is nearly globular. Gills moderately distant, 

 ascending, adnate, not ventricose, yellow-brown. Stem up 

 to 1 inch high, slender, yellow-brown. Spores yellow-brown, 

 oval, oblique, showing apparently a narrow flange on each 

 side towards one end, giving the spores a winged appearance, 

 8 to 9 x 5'2 to 6 jut. 



Amongst moss on flat rocks, Mosman, Sydney, July, 

 1916; amongst moss on fallen trunks, Lisarow (N.S.W.), 

 August, 1916 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 133). 



In the Sydney district there are three fairly common 

 species — G. rubiginosa, the above G. hypnorum, and 

 Psilocybe musci — found growing amongst moss, which all 

 somewhat resemble each other and are all hygrophanous. 

 They may be readily distinguished, however, as follows: — 

 G. rubiginosa has a darker reddish-brown cap and reddish- 

 brown gills; G. hypnorum has a yellow-brown cap, ascending 

 gills less broadly attached than the preceding and yellowish, 

 and the characteristic slightly "winged" spores; Ps. musci 

 has a cap of a darker tint than G. rubiginosa and usually 

 definitely obtusely umbonate, the darker gills are so broadly 

 attached as to be sometimes slightly decurrent, whilst the 

 spores are a pale porphyry-slate colour under the microscope. 



TUBARIA. 



51. Tubaria furfuracea, Pers. : Syn., p. 454; Cooke: 

 Illustrs., pi. 603; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 122; 

 Cooke: Handb. Aust. Fungi, No. 288, fig. 20 (Vict., Q'land, 

 Tas., Lake Bonney). — We refer the following to this 



