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AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
centre, darker, splitting above. Conidia cylindrical, rounded at 
the ends, 18-22 x 4 p, hyaline, binucleate, mostly straight. 
On dead leaves of Alphitonia excelsa. Brisbane, Q. (Bailey, 
995.) 
Darluca filum, Cast. Sacc. Syll. 2263. 
Parasitic on Uredo sorghi , Uredo rumicis , and other Uredines. 
Brisbane. (Bailey, 988, 991.) 
Fhysarum didexmoides, Rost. Mon., p. 97. Mass. Mon. Myx., p. 291. 
On grass, etc. Brisbane. (Bailey, 985.) 
New or Critical British Fungi.* 
By G. Masses. 
SCKULZERIA, Bres. 
Pileus regular, margin incurved when young, gills quite free 
from the stem; spores colourless (or greenish-blue) ; stem central, 
not furnished with a ring. 
The present genus is closely allied to Lepiota , differing only in 
the absence of a persistent ring on the stem. A veil is present, 
which is torn clear away from the stem during the expansion of 
the pileus, and remains for some time attached in fragments to 
the margin of the pileus. 
Sclmlzexia Eyrei, Mass. 
Pileus up to 1 in. across, but usually less, campanulate, margin 
incurved at first, then expanded aud plane or the margin a 
little upturned, broadly umbonate, disc ochraceous, minutely 
granular, remainder pallid and quite smooth, veil membranaceous, 
whitish, attached in fragments to the margin of the pileus when 
young ; gills free, narrowed behind, 1-li line broad in front, thin, 
margin entire, crowded at first, then distant as the pileus expands, 
pale green at first, then deep bluish-green ; spores elliptic- oblong, 
with an oblique apiculus at the base, bluish-green, 4*5 X 2‘5 p ; 
stem about 2 in. long, 1-1-5 line thick, slightly fiexuous, almost 
equal, smooth, even, minutely mealy at the apex, otherwise 
glabrous, pallid, hollow. 
Gregarious ; smell and taste none. On the ground among leaf 
debris , under the drip of a spruce fir. 
Alresford, Hants. (Kev. W. L. W. Eyre.) 
A very beautiful and distinct species, readily recognized by the 
decided blue- green colour of the gills. In this respect, however, 
the species is not unique. A Lepiota with green gills — L. 
Morgani , Peck — from the United States was described some years 
* Coloured figures of some of the new species will be given in the next 
part ; the specimens were received too late to get a plate executed in time 
for the present number. 
