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Order FUNGI. 
AGARICUS, Linn. 
- oy aorae aig aa ge ae in Fries. Hym. Eur. 101; 
e., Brit. Fun ileus 1 to 3 in. across, between fleshy and 
membranaceous,  bilie ate, then infundibuliforz, pepe even, hygro- 
phanous, sprinkled with a greyish bloom, stem 1 t n. high, stuff 
somewhat ascending, fibrillose, pallid, gills ri thee decurrent, 
crowded, narrow, white, then dingy. —Oke., Illus. t. 281. 
Hab.: Near Brisbane, J. H. Simmonds, R. J. Cr ibd, and others. Usually 
found on pine- eee in Europe. 
MARASMIUS, Fries. 
M. equi Fv. M.; Berk., Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 383; 
Grey. viil. 153; aes Syl. y. 553. Horschair Fungus. Small 
whity-tawny ; pileus membranous, convex, obtuse, 1 to 2 mm. n. broad; 
8 and more long, setaceous, rigid, shining, arising froma 
black mycelium paeeing horsehair ; ; gills few, distant, paler than 
the a —Sace. Syl 
: Common on dead sticks and leaves on the ground, and frequent on live 
twigs j in a the k damp scrubs of all parts ig Queensland. After the decry of 
is fungus in Grevillea is the following very curious species. Ané 
rhizomorphoid. ycelium resembles horseha, and is teoteasly develope ed, W se 
the pilei a agen > seldom. produced. stems rise at aster angles s from the 
decumbent mycelium. The only perfec aoe Sikede are in the Berkeley Herbarium, 
atthe! ardens, Kew e absence of pilei from all the specimens which [have | 
n Queensla nd. crabs, both no re ae iets quite confirms the opiicl 
sepieaied hove that they are of rare and the ee of fruit-bearmg 
organs has been the cause of. the plant being? taabestied as a Lichen by Dr. C. Knight 
under the synonym Alectoria australiensis, and as a fungus by U. E. Broome 
idoar tata hippotrichoides 
LENTINUS. J 
L. hyracinus, Kalch. in Grev. viii. 153. Pileus slightly he : 
sessile, semi-orbicular, narrowed to a substipitiform base, 2 cm. b . 
and long, smooth, the back rugulose, subtomentose front ae 3 
utnber-colont ed, sill adnate, crowded, narrrow or somewhat t broad, 
dentate, colour 
Hab. : Eudlo ae Field Naturalists ; Richmond River, N.S. W., Fe. H. 
CLAVARIA, Linn. : 
C. fusiformiis, Sow. (Spindle- om clubs.) Czespitoso- -connate, - 
rather firm, yellow, smooth, about . high, soon hollow; © 
somewhat fusiform, simple, and eee ees base attenuated, ee 
same colour, erect and often brittle, with: the apex often darker 
an . 
colour.— Cooke in British Fungi. 
Hab.: Eudlo Creek, Field Naturalists. Found also in Europe, America, 
Ceylon. 
EXIDIA, Fries. 4 
Fungi eae ey ehneesty or effused, often PPD oF : 
reniform, continuous for some time, when germina 4 
celled, producing “paved sjeviaselbas — Cooke, Grev. xx. at 
. albida (Huds.) (Tremella albida, Fries.) | Ascending; tough | 
expa anded, undulate, subgyrose, pruinose, whitish, when dry brownish; 
spores oblong, obtuse, eurved, biguttulate, subhyaline, 12-14 x +6" 
Hab.; On the bark of dead logs in Eudlo Serub, Field Naturalists. 
