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blackish, pallid brownish, with scattered black cobweb-like 
lines, or yellowish-green, ecoming hollow Spores ellip- 
tical, almost colourless, often with apparently a watery 
blackish tint, 9 to 104 x 6 to 7 u. Under shrubs. Lisarow, 
May; Neutral Bay, Sydney, May; Mosman, Sydney, June; 
Mount Lofty Ranges, S. Austr., June, 1917. 
dark green, browner on top, later pale olive-green, not appar- 
ently viscid, silky shining, rigid. Gills sinuate, thick, 
moderately distant, greyish flesh in colour. Stem inch 
igh, attenuated upwards, reddish-brown, becoming paler, 
hollow. Spores pear-shaped, 7'2 to 85x52 p. On t 
ground, Blue Mountains, May, 1914. 
MARASMIUS. 
SECT. I.—COLLYBIARII. 
127. Marasmius porreus, Fr. Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, 
li., p. 155.—Pileus 3 inch in .liameter, plane or slightly 
dirty white. Stem slightly striate, base downy, brown. 
Slight foetid smell. Complete revival in water. Spores 
02x25, 44x2 n, one end more pointed. Amongst leaves, 
Manly, April, 1915. (Herb., J. B. C., Form. Sp. 50. 
Though our plants resemble more Cooke's illustrations of 
M. erythropus than those of M. porreus, on account of the 
smell we place them provisionally under the latter. 
128. Marasmius alliatus, (Schaeff.) Schrot. (M. scoro- 
donius, Fr. Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 424; M ; 
rit. Fung. iii i i 
. (spores 104 i 
S R SL Ef thie species, stem finely mealy, pallid brown, spores 
OL p e , 
