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mucida, and on comparison witli dried English specimens 

 received from Miss Wakefield, the spores of the latter are 

 found to be similar to those of our plants but smaller (15'5 

 to 17 '3 fx). Obviously the Australian plants are very close 

 relatives to A. mucida, probably being the Australian repre- 

 sentatives, and, in spite of the complete absence of a ring, 

 we place them under A. mucida as a variety rather than 

 transfer them as a new species to another genus, and so 

 lose their obvious affinity. 



Pileus ad 10 cm. latus, subconvexus, deinde planus, glutinosus, 

 substriatus, albidus ad subfusco-albidus, cuticulo decor- 

 ticante. Lamellae subsinuatae, subventricosae, subdis- 

 tantes ad distantes, albae. Stipes ad 8 cm. altus, tenuis 

 ad robustus, ad basem bulbosus, albus ad albidus, 

 solidus. Sporae sphericae, granulatae, 15'5-24 /x. 



Tricholoma. 



94. Tricholoma muculeuta , Berk. : Hook. J., 1845, p. 43; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 50 (W.A.). — The following 

 agaric we are provisionally placing under this specific name, 

 but are not quite sure of its identity with the species: — 

 Pileus 2 inches in diameter, glutinous, white with a tinge of 

 brown at the apex, umbonate (conical), convex then ex- 

 panded. Gills white (drying to a light brown), moderately 

 distant, just adnexed. Stem white, glutinous, solid, faintly 

 striate ( ?). Caespitose on bare ground. Taste (dry speci- 

 men) mild. Spores white, spherical, 4 to 4*5 /ul, warty with 

 an apiculus at one end. Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 

 May 5, 1913. 



This agrees with the original description, save that the 

 spores are a little smaller (5 to 6 /x in Berkeley's species). 

 No mention is made of the spores being warty. No British 

 species of Tricholoma agrees with our specimen. There is 

 some resemblance between our fungus and the description of 

 Russula virginica, Cooke and Massee. The spores correspond 

 exactly, but our specimen is caespitose, and has not decurrent, 

 crowded gills, and is clearly not a Russula. 



95. Tricholoma colossa, Fr. : Epicr., p. 38; Cooke: 

 Illustrs., p. 87; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, iii., p. 182. — 

 A large agaric, usually half buried in the sandy soil, fre- 

 quently occurring after autumn rain in the coastal district 

 near Sydney, seems referable to this species. The description 

 of Tricholoma coarctata given by Cooke and Massee (Cooke: 

 Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 51) also seems like* that of our 

 species, but fig. 5, given by Cooke, is quite different. If 

 this figure is one reconstructed from a rough sketch, and not 



