NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. Aon 
PSALLIOTA. 
Cooke records five species of Psalliota for Australia, two 
of them (P. arvensis and P. campestris) for New South 
Wales. We have found, as well as these two species, what 
we take to be P. sylvaticus and P. cretaceus, as well as 
possibly still another species. 
Psalliota campestris.—We have met with several vari- 
eties of P. campestris, from pure white forms to others 
with brownish scales. The spores have measured from 
6°3 to9 X 4°2 to D°Dp. 
It is of interest to mention here the record of finding 
““mushrooms”’ (it is highly probable that they were P. 
campestris) by Mr. Wells, of Lindsay’s Exploring HExpedi- 
tion (p. 66), east of the Murchison Goldfields in Western 
Australia in latitude 27° 34 21” 8., on March 38rd, 1892. 
This portion of country was at that time unexplored and 
beyond the bounds of civilisation. Owing to the easy dis- 
persal by wind of the spores of agarics, this cannot be taken 
as certainly indicative of the common mushroom having 
preceded the white man in the colonisation of Australia. 
Perhaps other much earlier records of finding it in virgin 
country exist. 
P. arvensis, Schaeff.—We have met with this species in 
April and May, 1913, on Milson Island in the Hawkesbury 
River and in 1914 at Cremorne, Sydney. It was usually 
found growing in clumps of very tall mushrooms, sometimes 
in hollows. Some specimens had a very strong smell of 
iodoform, so powerful that any one entering the room in 
which they were, enquired as to the iodoform odour. The 
Cremorne specimens, which gave a characteristic reddish 
tint when the stem was cut, were cooked, when the 
iodoform smell was less noticeable, and eaten. Spores 
measured 5 to 6°3 X 3°5Sp. 
