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58\ Psalliota pratensis, Schaeff. ; Agaricus pratensis, 

 Schaeff.: Icon., t. 96; Cooke :. Illustrs., pi. 525; Massee: 

 Brit. Fung. Flora, i., p. 414. — We refer the following to 

 this species, though the gills are not rounded behind and 

 the stem is not hollow. Our plants agree well with Cooke's 

 Illustrations : — Pileus up to 4 inches in diameter when 

 mature, at first rather globose and with the centre depressed, 

 finally convex and somewhat umbonate, creamy coloured, clad 

 with fibrillose dark-brown concentric scales, very thick at the 

 disc, giving with the ground-colour a dark grey-scaled 

 appearance to the cap. Gills just reaching the stem, then 

 free, not rounded behind, crowded, narrow, whitish for a 

 long time, then passing through pale pinkish to brown and 

 dark purple-brown. Stem up to 4^ inches high, | inch 

 thick, base usually bulbous, smooth or scurfily squamous to 

 the ring, white or tinged faintly reddish, stuffed with downy 

 fibrils. Flesh § inch thick. Veil long persistent, finally 

 rupturing to leave a voluminous dependent ragged ring at 

 the junction of the upper J or J of the stem with the 

 remainder. Spores 5*2 to 5'5 x 3*4 jut, occasionally 6*8 x 

 3*4 [x. When cooked, the taste resembles that of P. 

 campestris . 



Milson Island, Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.), January 

 and April, 1915 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 65). 



59. Psalliota elatior, Cooke and Mass.: Grev. viii., 3; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 310, fig. 28. — This species 

 is recorded by Cooke (No. 310) for Victoria. We describe 

 our specimens as follows : — Pileus 1 inch or more in diameter, 

 at first convex, then more expanded and covered with pinky- 

 fawn squamules, becoming darker at the gibbous umbo, 

 later reddish-brown from fibrous scales, especially over the 

 umbo, finally slightly upturned and gibbous, blackish-brown 

 and slightly fibrous. Gills free, close, at first pinky-white, 

 then rich pink, finally purplish-brown. Stem up to 2 inches 

 high, slightly attenuated upwards, whitish, fibrillosely 

 streaked, then pinkish-white and smoother, slightly bulbous, 

 slightly hollow. King rather distant. Flesh white. The 

 colour partly dissolves in formalin solution to a reddish-brown 

 tint. Spores 5*2 to 5*5 x 3'4 fx. 



In a wood, Narrabeen, nea^r Sydney, April, 1915 (Miss 

 Clarke, Watercolour No. 48; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 

 48) ; under Casuarina, Suspension Bridge, Sydney, April, 

 1915; Mosman, Sydney, April, 1915. 



Stropharia. 



60. Stropharia ohturata, Fr. ; Harper: Trans. Wise. 

 Acad, of Sci., Arts, etc., xvii., pt. ii., No. 3, plate; Massee: 



