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Australian Fungi. 
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By M. C. Cooke. 
Agazicus (Collybia) muscipula, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pileus fleshy, umbonate, smooth, mouse grey or brown, wrinkled, 
3-4 in. broad, substance thin, tough, margin shortly incurved, 
stem elongated, stuffed, 8-9 in. long, in. thick, tapering 
downwards and rooting, longitudinally striate, often twisted ; gills 
broadly adnate, very broad, scarcely crowded, spores whitish, 
subglobose, 14 p diam., with a minute apiculus. 
On the ground. Brisbane. (F. M. Bailey.) 
Much resembling Ag. radicatus , but with very different spores. 
Agaricus ( Collybia ) radicatus, var. superbiens , Berk., has large 
elliptical spores. 
Coztinazius (Dezmocybe) Walkezi, C. fy M. 
Pileus about lin. across, convex, then expanded, but the margin 
persistently incurved, and more or less wavy, somewhat umbo- 
nate, smooth, even, dry, minutely silky, pale green at first, 
becoming bluish-green with age ; flesh thin except at the disc, 
white with a tinge of green ; stem lin. long, two lines thick, slightly 
thickened at the base, silky-fibrillose, reddish, stuffed ; gills 
adnexed, rounded behind, about 1^ line broad, thin, rather crowded, 
reddish, then powdered with the bright ferruginous spores, margin 
entire ; spores elliptical, with an oblique apiculus, smooth, 
ferruginous, 10 X 5 p. 
On the ground. Blue Mountains, Australia. (Miss A. F. 
Walker; comm. Sir Ferd. Mueller.) 
Agazicus (Mycena) epiptezygius, Scop., Cooke Illus., t. 208 b. 
On the ground. Brisbane. (Bailey, 1012.) 
Marasmius badius, B. Sf C., Sacc. Syll., 1989. 
On wood. Brisbane. (Bailey, 1013.) 
Mazasmius zhyssophyllus, Mont. Sacc. Syll., No. 1991. 
On wood. Brisbane. (Bailey, 1014.) 
Polypozus phlebophozus, Berk., S. N. Zeal., n., 177. 
On wood. Brisbane. (Bailey, 977.) 
Helotium tezzestze, B. $ Br., Linn. Trans., Sandb. Austr. Fungi, v. 
267. 
On the ground. Brisbane. (Bailey, 1003.) 
By some error, apparently, this species was originally described 
as externally villous , and hence was transferred by Saccardo to 
Basyscypha, and as such was recorded in “ Handbook of Australian 
Fungi,” but the specimens now received, as well as those in Herb. 
Kew, are externally smooth and naked, hence it should be restored 
to its original genus Helotium. 
Astezina hoveafolia, Cke. 8f Mass. 
Epiphyllous. Spots black, or with a brown centre, suborbicular, 
velvety (1-2 mm.). Perithecia usually arranged in a ring, or part 
