AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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Agaricus (Hypholoma) discretus, CTce. ft Mass. 
Gregarious. Pileus campanulate, then convex, umbonate, 
smooth (2 c.m. diam.), tawny yellow. Stem slender, equal (3 c.m. 
long), faintly striate, paler than the pileus, a little floccose at the 
base. Gills free, or slightly adnate, rather broad, greenish grey, 
then olive, at length purple brown, edge whitish. Spores purple 
brown, 12 x 7 /x,. 
On the ground. Victoria. ( Mrs . Martin , 1056.) 
Resembling Ag. elceodes , but spores much larger, and not 
cgespitose. 
Bolbitius candidus, CJce. ft Mass. 
Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, then plane (3-5 c.m.), 
white, smooth, margin striatulate. Stem long (6-8 c.m.), equal, 
somewhat fibrous, hollow, mealy at the base, white (3 m.m. thick). 
Gills lanceolate, free, leaving a collar round the stem, margin 
serrulate, ferruginous. Spores elliptical, smooth, bright orange 
brown, at first binucleate, 10-1 2 x 6 fi. 
On stable refuse. Brighton, Victoria. (Mrs. Martin , 1052.) 
Maxasmius subxoseus, Cke. ft Mass. 
Cgespitose ; pileus ovate-carnpanulate (1-2 c.m.), membra- 
naceous, smooth, faintly umbonate, somewhat striate, pale tan 
colour, tinged with pink. Stem equal (3-4 c.m. long, 1-2 m.m. 
thick), rather rigid, horny, hollow, smooth, becoming a little 
reddish downwards, and clad at the base with white pubescence. 
Gills distant, adnate, broad, interstices slightly veined, whitish, 
with a pinkish tinge. Spores 6-8 x 4 y. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. ( Martin , 1088.) 
Lenzites bifasciatus, Clce. ft Mass. 
Pileus reniform, or shell-shaped, broadly attached at the base 
(1 c.m diam.), coriaceous, thin, greyish fawn-colour, with a darker 
fuliginous band near the margin, and one nearer the vertex, silky. 
Gills not crowded, rather broad, umber. 
On bark. Victoria. (Martin, 995.) 
Polyporus (Ovini) mylittae, C. ft M. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, elastic, pulvinate, single or two or three 
together, and then deformed, convex, minutely velvety, white (10 
c.m. diam.). Stem short (2 c.m. long), deformed, like the pileus, 
solid, flesh white. Tubes rather long (7 m.m.). Pores white, 
adnate (^ m.m.), somewhat angular, edge acute, smaller towards 
the margin. Spores elliptical, with an oblique basal apiculus, 
smooth, 8 x 4 y. 
Growing on Mylitta austra lis. S. Australia. 
A most interesting production, undoubtedly the ultimate develop- 
ment of the Sclerotium long known as Mylitta australis. 
Daedalea illudens, Cke. ft Mass. 
Pileus coriaceous, thin, decurrent behind (4 c.m. broad), 
velvety, becoming nearly bare, grey, with darker linear concentric 
zones, sometimes laterally confluent or imbricate ; margin acute ; 
hymenium whitish ; pores near the margin and when young 
