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On horse-dung probably, collected on three occasions in 

 April, May, and June, 1915, Neutral Bay, Sydney (Miss 

 Clarke, Watercolour No. 78; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 

 113). Numerous plants were collected on dung on the hills 

 near Beaumont, Adelaide, in April, 1917 — these were at 

 first acutely conical and viscid, with the edge of the pileus 

 a little inturned, then convex with an acute umbo, then 

 expanding and reaching 1^ inch in diameter; gills adnate, 

 later with very slight decurrence or seceding, clouded grey, 

 then dingy sooty-brown ; the stem was pallid with a slight 

 brown tinge, markedly hollow, with a slight moderately dis- 

 tant black ring; mouldy smell marked; spores 16*5 to 

 20*5 x 10-5 to 12 ii. 



Hypholoma. 



63. Hypholoma fascicidare, Huds. : Fl. Anglica, p. 615; 

 Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 561; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, i., 

 p. 382; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 315 (Vict., 

 S. Austr., Tas.). — This is a common and characteristic species 

 in the neighbourhood of Sydney, growing in dense clusters 

 at or near the base of old stumps, posts, etc., and frequently 

 emerging from the ground in clumps near buried rotting 

 timber. The yellowish tinge of the edge of the cap and the 

 dull yellowish-green gills with the clustered habit and bitter 

 taste render it easily recognizable. 



Sydney district, Parramatta, Hawkesbury River, April 

 to July; Hill Top, March and April; Berowra, June; 

 Kendall, May; Mount Lofty Ranges (S.A.), June. Spores 

 purplish, 6"5 to 8 x 3'5 to 5'2 ja. A few slightly ventrieose 

 acuminate cystidia, 35 x 10*5 [i, have occasionally been seen. 

 Several clusters' show evidence of a ring on the stem, whilst a 

 collection obtained at Mosman in July, 1915, shows specimens 

 with a very marked persistent ring, technically placing them 

 in the genus Stropharia. 



64. Hypholoma elaeodes, Fries.: Epicr., p. 222; Massee: 

 Brit. Fung. Flora, i., p. 383. — The following, collected on 

 one occasion only, seems to be this species. It agrees with 

 Cooke's Illustrations (which, however, Massee places under 

 H . fascicularis ) : — Pileus up to 1 inch in diameter, convex, 

 slightly gibbous, tanny-yellow, remains of veil at the edge. 

 Gills slightly sinuate, close, colour of cap, then becoming 

 more umber. Stem 1 inch high, slender, mealy-white with 

 tinges of brown shining through, fibrously streaked. Flesh 

 yellow. Taste bitter. Spores porphyry coloured, 7 x 3'8 jm. 

 No cystidia seen. 



Caespitose at the root of a stump. Leura, Blue Moun- 

 tains, June, 1916 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 119). 



