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first inclined to place some specimens under F.. hybrida 
or F.. sapinea, both of which Cooke records for Australia, 
and with which dried specimens can be made to agree. 
The finding of typical specimens of F. filicea, however, 
has shown us that these other forms belong to the same 
species, and possibly the two Australian records above are 
mis-identifications. From our specimens, we would place 
F, filicea near F. hybrida and F. sapinea under the section 
Sapinei and not, as placed by Massee, under Sericelli. 
Description.—Pileus convex, under 1 in. to 4 ins., warty 
squamulose, sometimes almost quite smooth, pale yellowish 
brown, the scales darker brown with a greenish tint, 
Sometimes finely warty, sometimes broader and flat and 
the pileus cracking, more or less tanny usually when dry. 
Gills adnate, occasionally with a decurrent tooth in 
deformed specimens, moderately crowded, sulphur-coloured 
becoming a rich brilliant tanny or reddish-tan when dry, 
attenuated both ways, some very short. Flesh yellowish. 
Stem usually central, but sometimes eccentric or even 
lateral, according to the situation where growing; some- 
times attenuated upwards, sometimes downwards, thin to 
stout, 1 in. to 14 ins., whitish to reddish-brown, fibrously 
streaked, sometimes slightly hollow, sometimes with red- 
dish remains of the ring just below the gills. Spores the 
colour of the dried gills, obliquely oval, very fine warts 
sometimes detected with one-twelfth inch lens, usually 
7 X 5°24, rarely 6 X 4°2v, in one Specimen some spores 
recorded as 11°5 x 7». More or less ceespitose on fallen 
jogs and rarely on the ground. Common in autumn at 
Neutral Bay (Sydney), Hawkesbury River, Terrigal, Mount 
Lofty (South Australia, June). 
F. purpureo-nitens, Cooke and Massee.—On three ocea- 
sions we have collected a small Flammula which seems 
referable to this species, although possibly only a form of 
