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129. Marasmius calopus, Fr. Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 iii., p. 163; Cooke: Illustrs., 1125b, and Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 425 (Q'land). — Specimens collected at Mosman, 

 Sydney, in November, 1914, and at Manly in April, 1915, 

 and found growing on fallen twigs, agree with Cooke's illus- 

 trations. They differ slightly from the description given by 

 Massee in the stem being dark below and paler above. We 

 describe our plants as follows : — Pileus up to 3 inch in 

 diameter, convex, then plane or umbilicate, creamy-white 

 sometimes with a smoky centre, somewhat sulcate-rugose, edge 

 turned in when young. Gills adnate or adnexed, moderately 

 distant, finely toothed, white. Stem \ inch or more long, 

 very slender, blackish below, then dark brown suddenly 

 becoming whitish, sometimes almost throughout pale or dark 

 brown, mealy tuberculose below, mealy above, attached by a 

 minute disc. No smell (slight garlicky smell noticed in one 

 collection). Spores rather elongated, one end more pointed, 

 5'2 to 7 x 2*5 to 3'4 jll. (Miss Clarke, Watercolour 56 ; Herb., 

 J. B. C, Form. Sps. 49 and unnumbered.) 



130. Marasmius equi-crinis, F. v. M. : Grev., viii., 153; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 441 (Vict., N.S. Wales, 

 Q'land). (Syn. Thamnomyces hippotrichoides, C. E. Broome; 

 A lectoria australiensis, Knight. Records in Ann. Rep. Bot. 

 Gdns., Sydney, 1909 (1910), 10).— The sterile horse-hair-like 

 mycelium is common in the Big Scrub on the Richmond River 

 and in the Dorrigo Scrub, and also in Queensland, specimens 

 having been collected at Enoggera, Coomera, Mount Mistake, 

 Allumbah, Taylor Range, Kerang Creek, and Dalrymple 

 Creek. We have also specimens collected at Futuma, in the 

 New Hebrides. The mycelium has a superficial resemblance 

 to certain lichens, and has been recorded under the name 

 A lectoria australiensis, Knight, in Bailey's and Shirley's works, 

 as pointed out by one of us (Cheel : Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, xxxii., 1907, p. 475). 



The following we believe to be a pileate specimen : — 

 Pileus T l 2 to ^ inch in diameter, convex, with about 8 coarse 

 rugae, brown, apex smooth and a little depressed, paler with 

 a dark central knob. Gills adnate and attached to a collar but 

 free from the stem, distant, about 9 or 10 in number, pallid. 

 Stem up to 4 or 5 inches long, smooth, hair-like, dark brown or 

 black, abruptly piercing the matrix. Under shrubs on fallen 

 wood or leaves. Mount Wilson, Blue Mountains, June, 1915 

 (Herb., J. B. C, Formalin Sp. 145). Extensive hair-like 

 light-brownish mycelial threads, found covering fallen leaves, 

 etc., in the neighbourhood of these specimens, may have been 

 the sterile mycelium of this species, though the colour was 

 not the dark brown or black of the stems of the cap-bearing 

 portions. 



