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Blue Mountains, May, 1914 (Herb., J. B. C, Form. 

 Sp.) ; Mosman, Sydney, May, June, amongst fallen leaves 

 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 27) ; Parramatta, June, 1916- 

 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 118; Herb., J. B. C, Form. 

 Sp., 208). 



74. Psilocybe aggregata, n. sp. (pi. xii., figs. 5 and 6). — 

 Pileus up to 1 inch across, usually J inch, slightly convex 

 becoming flattened, very dark chocolate-brown when moist r 

 drying from the centre to a pale brown, faintly striate. Gills 

 close, adnexed, slightly ventricose, colour of the moist cap. 

 Stem short, f inch long, curved, pale brown, semi-transulcent,, 

 slightly greyish, silky-fibrous, hollow. Spores in the mass 

 dark purplish, microscopically a dark bronzy-brown v 

 5 5 x 3'4 /a. Numerous ventricose cystidia, the apices rough,. 

 35 to 40 x 10'5 fi. 



In dense masses covering a fallen log. Leura, Blue 

 Mountains, June, 1916 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 122; 

 Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 209),. 



Pileus ad 2'5 cm. vulgo 19 cm. latus, aliquanto convexus r 

 deinde aliquanto planus, nigro-fuscus, postquam sicco 

 pallido-fuscus, aliquanto striatus. Lamellae confertae, 

 adnexae, aliquanto ventricosae, nigro-fuscae. Stipes 

 brevis, 1"9 cm. longus, curvatus, pallido-fuscus, semi- 

 translucidus, aliquanto cinereo-pallidus et sericeo-fibratus, 

 cavus. Sporae nigro-purpureae, 5"5 x 3'4 /x. Cystidia: 

 ventricosa, apicibus asperis, 30 to 40 x 10*5 /a. 



BLACK-SPORED AGARICS. 



Pan aeolus. 



75. Pan aeolus ovat-us, Cooke and Massee : Grev., xviii. r 

 4; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 332; Cleland and 

 Cheel : Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlviii., p. 439. Pre- 

 viously reported for Victoria and New South Wales.— We- 

 have the followino- additional New South Wales records of 



o 



this species. We have notes also that, when old, the cap may 

 have a brownish tint and crack into scales. 



Sydney district, including Manly and Parramatta r 

 January to April, December; Milson Island, Hawkesbury 

 River, January to March; Goulburn, February; Cobar (L- 

 Abrahams), June; Baan Baa, January; Kew, January. On 

 dung, near Adelaide, April, 1917 (stem very slightly hollow).. 



76. Panaeolus retirugis. Fries.: Epicr., p. 235: Cooke: 

 Illustrs., pi. 627; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, i., p. 334; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 336 (Vict.); Cleland and 

 Cheel: Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1914, p. 439 (N.S, 



