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blackish, pallid brownish, with scattered black cobweb-like 

 lines, or yellowish-green, becoming hollow. Spores ellip- 

 tical, almost colourless, often with apparently a watery 

 blackish tint, 9 to 10"4 x 6 to 7 fx. Under shrubs. Lisarow, 

 May; Neutral Bay, Sydney, May; Mosman, Sydney, June; 

 Mount Lofty Ranges, S. Austr., June, 1917. 



126. Hygrophorus psittadnus, Schaeff. Massee : Brit. 

 Fung. Flora, ii., p. 341. — The following specimen seems to 

 be best referred to this species : — Pileus up to 1 inch in 

 diameter, somewhat conical, then convex, then expanded, 

 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 1^ inch 

 high, attenuated upwards, reddish-brown, becoming paler, 

 hollow. Spores pear-shaped, 7"2 to 8'5 x 5*2 ju. On the 

 ground, Blue Mountains, May, 1914. 



Marasmius. 

 sect. i. collybiarii. 



127. Marasmius porre.us, Fr. Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 iii., p. 155. — Pileus | inch in «liameter, plane or slightly 

 depressed, striate, brown. Gills a-Unate, then seceding, close, 

 dirty white. Stem slightly striate, base downy, brown. 

 Slight foetid smell. Complete revival in water. Spores 

 5*2 x 2"5, 4'4 x 2 /x, 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; Massee: 

 Brit. Fung. Flora, iii., p. 162. — Pileus \ inch or larger, 

 slightly umbilicate, coarsely but flatly grooved, dirty 

 brownish-white to reddish-brown, paler periphery. Gills 

 adnate, moderately crowded, many short, slightly toothed, 

 pale cream. Stem f inch high, slender, hollow, smooth, dark 

 reddish-brown. Slight smell of garlic. Attached to fallen 

 leaves, sometimes apparently on the ground, by a slightly 

 bulbous base. Shed spores elongated, pear-shaped or pip- 

 shaped, one end narrower, 8*7 to 10*3 x 36 to 4 jx. (D. I. C, 

 Watercolour 32.) Neutral Bay, Sydney, February, March 

 (spores 10 - 4 to 12*4 x5'3), May; Murwillumbah, April, 

 1916 ([?]this species, stem finely mealy, pallid brown, spores 

 8 x 2'5 jul) ; Wiseman's Ferry, June, 1915. 



The plate of M. scorodonius given by Cooke (Illustrs., 

 1125a) shows plants stouter and with caps and stems brighter 

 rufous than our specimens. 



