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THE LARGER Fl'NGI 
Pilous 2in,, white becoming brownish. 
Gills white becoming light buff. Stem 
3in., equal, slender. Spores 9 to 10 x 
5.5 to (i m . 27. L. erminca. 
Small plant's. 
Altogether white or whitish. 
Stem relatively long (ljin.). Pilous 
Jin., umbonate, smooth or slightly 
fibrillose. Spores 7 x 3.5 g . . . . 28. L. parvannulata. 
Stem about 1 j in. Pilous Jin., with a 
broad umbo, pallid whitish. Spores 
5.5 x 3.5 p 29. L. umbonata. 
Stem under Jin. ['ileus Jin. White 
fibrils clothing pilous and stem . . 30. L. albo-flbrillosa. 
Epidermis viscid. 
No South Australian species as yet recorded. 
A. Epidermis dry. 
*Pileus squamulose or becoming broken up into scales. 
(a) Bing movable, distinct from tiif. volva; apex of the stem surrounded 
BY A CARTILAGINOUS COLLAR. 
15. Lepiota procera Scop. (L., procerus, tall). — Pileus up to Sin, (12.5 cm.), 
at first conico-convex, then convex, umbonate, covered with dark brown fibrillose 
scales, the umbo uniformly dark brown. Gills free, close, white becoming dis- 
coloured. Stem up to 7 Jin. (18.7 cm.), relatively slender, attenuated upwards, 
striate, hollow, pale brownish. Ring ample, median or median superior, fixed, 
then movable. Spores thick-walled, oval, 15 to 22.5 x 9.5 to 11 p. On the ground 
amongst grass usually under trees. Edible. South Australia — National Park, 
hills near Mount Lofty, Kuitpo, Willunga Hill, Encounter Bay, Kinchinn, Inman 
Valley, Mount Bun- (S.E.) (in Films insignia Dough forest). Victoria — Ararat. 
April to August. 
The Parasol Mushroom is readily recognised by its large size, relatively slender 
stem with a prominent usually movable ring on it, convex umbonate pileus with 
brownish scales, and whitish free gills. It is not uncommon in our National Park. 
Specimens from this locality have been eaten by the author and were found to 
be very palatable. 
( b ) Bing fixed, homogeneous with the universal veil which clothes the 
STEM; APEX OF THE STEM WITHOUT A CARTILAGINOUS COLLAR; PILEUS 
TORN INTO SCALES OR FLOCCI. 
16. Lepiota Exocarpi Clel. (Exocarpus, the generic name of the native 
cherry). — Pileus J to ljin. (1.8 to 3.1 cm.), broadly conico-convex or convex, 
finally nearly plane, gibbous to umbonate, covered with very dark brown to 
blackish fibrous to warty scales (Warm Sepia, xxix., to nearly black), the scales 
near the periphery disclosing the Orange Cinnamon (xxix.) cuticle beneath. Gills 
just free, ventricose, moderately close, creamy white. Stem up to ljin. (3.1 cm.), 
slender to moderately stout, librously striate, slightly hollow, below clad with 
scattered scales as on the pileus, reddish brown. Bing imperfect, distant. Flesh 
of stem reddish brown, of pileus whitish under the umbo. Spores elliptical, 
oblique, narrow, ends pointed, not tliick-walled, S to 11 x 3.5 t'o 4.5 p. South 
Australia — Under Exocarpus cupressiformis Labill. (Native Cherry) in leaf 
mould, Mount Lofty; under trees, Adelaide Parklands. June, July. (Figure 6B.) 
A small species characterised by the dark brown scales of the pileus on an 
orange cinnamon background, reddish-brown stem somewhat scaly below and 
spores 8 to 11 x 3.5 to 4.5 p. 
17. Lepiota bulbosa del. (L., bulbosus, bulbous). — -Pileus tin. (2.5 cm.), 
convex, pale earthy-brown with scattered villose scales. Gills barely reaching the 
stem, close, slightly ventricose, creamy white. Stem Jin. (18 mm.) with the bulb, 
slender, under Jin. (6 mm.) thick, bulb Jin. (12.5 mm.) thick, white and striate 
from the gills above the median fixed definite membranous ring, slightly fibrillose 
and whitish with a brownish tint below, slightly hollow. Spores elliptical, oblique, 
not thick-walled, 9.3 to 10.5 x 5.5 to 7 p. On the ground. South Australia — 
luma u Valley. September. 
