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obtuse umbo, faintly striate, when moist definitely viscid, 

 of a dark blood-red or rich reddish-crimson colour. Gills 

 adnate, then slightly decurrent, rather thick, moderately 

 close, rose colour or slightly paler than the pileus, edge very 

 slightly darker and finely denticulate. Stem 1 inch high, 

 slender, coloured like the cap, glutinous when moist, hollow, 

 usually attached by a small fluffy disc. On bruising the gills 

 or stem, a little dark-red moisture appears. The colour 

 rapidly disappears in formalin solution. Spores elongated, 

 one end more pointed, very hard to see, 7 to 8'5 x 2'5 to 3*5 /a. 

 Attached to small sticks and leaves in damp shadv places. 

 Mosman, Sydney, April, May, and June; Tuggerah, October; 

 Hawkesbury River ; Mount Kembla, November. 



Colour tints noted :— Pileus dull carmine-lake (pi. 106, 

 Ton 4); old blood-red (pi. 103, Ton 2). 



Pileus ad 1 cm. latus, hemisphericus ad convexus, interdum 

 mmbilicatus vel subgibbosus, substriatus, viscidus, 

 sanguineo-coccineus. Lamellae adnate, deinde sub- 

 decurrentes, subcrassae, subconfertae, rosaceo-coccineae, 

 marginibus sanguineo-coccineis et subdenticulatis. Stipes 

 2*5 cm. altus, tenuis, cavus, glutinosus, sanguineo- 

 coccineus, ad basem disco. Sporae elongatae, 7-8'5 x 

 2-5-3-5 p. (PI. xxix., fig. 4.) 



SECT. IV. LACTIPEDES. 



133. Mycena sanguinolenta, Alb. and Schw. Massee : 

 Brit. Fung. Flora, iii., p. 89; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, 

 No. 116 (Vict.). — Cooke has recorded this species for Victoria 

 and Baker (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxxi., p. 720 

 [1906]) for New South Wales. On several occasions in New 

 South Wales and South Australia we have met with a 

 Mycena which combines some of the characters of M. 

 sanguinolenta- with some of those of M. haematopa, Pers. It 

 agrees with the latter in the margin of the pileus being 

 minutely toothed and the juice being prune coloured. It 

 grows amongst leaves or grass on the ground, however, and 

 not on trees or stumps. In size it resembles the former, and 

 also has a dark-red edge to the gills, which in addition are 

 finely toothed. The colour of the juice is darker than that 

 of M. sanguinolenta given in Cooke's illustration. At pre- 

 sent we place it. under M. sanguinolenta., as being probably 

 the Australian species hitherto recorded as such, but it is 

 possible that it may not be either of the two species above 

 mentioned . 



The description of our specimens is as follows: — Pileus 

 up to | inch broad and \ inch high, submembranaceous 

 conico-campanulate, sometimes finally irregularly upturned, 



