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Kew, January, May — all in New South Wales; Adelaide, 

 autumn. 



Occasionally, especially in shady places, this pure white 

 form has a definite pink tinge in the cap, which is also finely 

 fibrillose. Wet conditions seem to favour this. We have 

 noted this feature several times, and have a specimen col- 

 lected at Sydney in June — giHs rich pink, just reaching the 

 stem, ring distant and single, spores 7'2 x 5 jm. 



56a. Psalliota campestris , var. hortensis, Cooke: Illustrs., 

 pi. 527. — Mushrooms with brownish fibrillose scales on the 

 cap are not uncommon in the Sydney district. The following 

 is the most marked form we have met with. It had not been 

 cultivated : — Pileus up to 4 inches in diameter, densely 

 covered with reddish-brown fibrillose scales. Gills rounded 

 near the stem and just free, pink then purplish-brown. Flesh 

 white, somewhat tinted brownish. Stem 3 inches high, up 

 to | inch thick, with a small cavity, base slightly bulbous. 

 Ring ample, moderately distant. Spores 5'2 x 3'4 /a. 



Neutral Bay, Sydney, April, 1915 (Miss Clarke, Water- 

 colour No. 67). Specimens obtained at Milson Island, 

 Hawkesbury River, in January, 1915, had the scales more 

 numerous in the centre and a moderately slender, solid stem; 

 spores usually 5*5 x 3*4 jut, occasionally 6'8 x 3'4 /a. 



56b. Psalliota campestris, var. sylvicola, Vittad. ; Cooke: 

 Illustrs., pi. 529; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 307 

 (Vict.). — We have several collections of specimens which we 

 believe belong to this variety. The pilei are comparatively 

 smooth and white or pallid whitish, and the stems more or 

 less elongated and bulbous at their bases. The smell is also 

 rather strong. Spores 4'5 to 8 x 2*5 to 5 jul. 



Sydney district, various collectors, February, March, 

 June, July, October. 



57. Psalliota arvensis, var. villaticus, Brond; Cooke: 

 Illustrs., pi. 585; Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, i., p. 413. — 

 We refer the following to this variety, with Cooke's illus- 

 tration of which it agrees. It appears also to agree fairly 

 well with the description and Cooke's plate of P. augustus, 

 Fr. , so we may be mistaken in our reference : — Pileus up to 

 4 inches in diameter, at first rather campanulate, finally 

 slightly convex and wavy, when young covered with small 

 brown scales so as to appear uniformly brown, when adult 

 the brown scales more separated. Gills just about reaching 

 the stem, at first nearly white, then very pale pink, then 

 purplish. Stem 3 inches high, stout, white, mealy, solid. 

 Ring thick, ample. Flesh turning yellowish or reddish-brown 

 when bruised. Smell slightly fragrant and unlike that of 

 P. campestris. Spores usually 5'8 x 4 jul, occasionally 



