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end more pointed, 7 to 9 x 3'4 to 4 /x. Under bushes, Mos- 

 man, Sydney, April, May. 



123. Collybia stipitaria, Fr. Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 iii., p. 129. — We have collected this species on one occasion 

 on Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, in March. As men- 

 tioned by C. G. Lloyd (Mycolog. Notes, No. 100), it revives 

 on moistening like a Marasmius. The description of our speci- 

 mens is as follows: — Pileus f inch in diameter, convex, thin, 

 tough, reddish-tan. Gills moderately crowded, pale brown, 

 slightly decurrent. Stem up to f inch high, base slightly 

 swollen, hollow, villous, dark brown. Spores elliptical, 

 4'4 to 5*2 x 2 "5 to 3 '4 /x. Attached to the bases of living 

 grass stems. (D. I. C, Watercolour 33.) 



Hygrophorus. 



Subgenus Hygrocybe. 



124. Hygrophorus miniatus, Fr. Cooke : Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 383 (Q'land, Vict.). — Our specimens approach 

 H . coccineus in having a tendency to decurrence in the gills 

 and occasionally a trace of yellow at the base of the stem. 

 The spores are also a little smaller than those given for 

 H . miniatus or H . coccineus. Our specimens may be dsecribed 

 as follows: — Pileus \ to 1 inch in diameter, convex, some- 

 times a little dimple in the centre or umbilicate, sometimes 

 irregular, sometimes upturned, sometimes slightly rugose and 

 sometimes slightly squamulose, crimson, sometimes orangey- 

 crimson or reddish-orange or pinky-scarlet. Flesh reddish. 

 Gills distant, yellowish or rosy-pink or pallid, edge rather 

 thick, adnate, becoming decurrent from depression of the 

 pileus or with a decurrent tooth. Stem 1| to 2^ inches high, 

 dilated upwards, solid, sometimes hollow, crimson, with base 

 sometimes slightly yellowish or the buried part whitish and 

 fluffy. Spores elliptical 7 to 8'5 jm, occasionally 10*4 x 3'6 

 to 6'$ /x. Amongst moss or under trees. Neutral Bay, 

 Sydney, May; Lisarow, May; Mount Wilson, Blue Moun- 

 tains, June; Leura, June; Blue Mountains, July; National 

 Park, July; Oxford Falls, Narrabeen (Darnell-Smith), 

 October; Tuggerah, October; Hawkesbury River, November. 



125. Hygrophorus conicus, Fr. Cooke: loc. cit., No. 384 

 (Vict.). — Our collections of this species may be described as 

 follows: — Pileus f inch in diameter, elongated globular, then 

 convex with an acute umbo, fibrillosely streaked, yellowish- 

 green or dark greyish-brown, turning black with black fibrils. 

 Gills just free or just sinuately adnexed, triangular, yellowish 

 becoming grey or dark grey. Stem 1\ to 3| inches high, 

 rather fibrillose and twisted, the fibrils later becoming 



