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THE LARGER FUNGI 
21. Lcpiota cervicolor Clel. ( L., ocrvus, a deer; color, colour). — Usually 
slender. Pilous up to Urn. (4 cm.), usually about 2 cm., becoming plane, 
subumboimte, with a fibrillose tomontiun splitting into fibrillose or floccose scales, 
near Pawn (XL.) to Vinaceous Fawn, or Mikado Brown (xxix.) in the centre 
with Light T’inkish Cinnamon (xxrx.) scales at the periphery; occasional plants 
stout with a stout stem, irregularly convex, umbonate, clothed uniformly with a 
Vinaceous Pawn fibrillose tomentum. Gills free, creamy white. Stem slightly 
striat'e, fibrillose, whitish with a pink caste above the attachment of the flimsy 
veil to the middle of the stem, which connects the fibrillose tomentum of the pileus 
to similar coloured fibrils on the stem below. Spores elliptical. 6.-4 to 7 x 3.8 y. 
In garden. South Australia — Fullarton (Adelaide). May. 
22. Lepiota nigro-cinerea Clel. (L., nigcr, black, dark; cinercus, of an ash 
colour). — Pileus i in. (1.2 cm.), convex, suhumbonate, dark-grey from floecoso 
scales. Gills barely reaching the stem, moderately close, cream-coloured. Stem 
sin. (16 mm.), slender, a little fibrillose below, whitish. Bing ? evanescent. 
Spores very oblique, sometimes nearly triangular, not thick-walled, 5.5 x 3.5 n. 
On the ground. South Australia — •Encounter Bay. May. 
23. Lepiota fuUginosa Clel. (L., fwUginosus, sooty). — Pileus up to fin. 
(2.2 cm.), slightly convex, then plane or a little upturned, in the centre sooty- 
brown from minute fibrous scales, almost villose, the scales scantier and paler 
round the periphery leaving a pallid slightly sooty zone Jin, (3 mm.) or more 
hi diameter. Gills barely free, narrow, close, creamy white. Stem J to Jin. 
(3 to 19 mm.), short, equal, smooth, solid, pallid whitish. Ring distant, as a 
narrow membranaceous ring, evanescent. Spores oblique with an apiculus, 5.5 x 
3.5 a- On the ground. South Australia — Ban china. June. 
24. Lepiota cinnamonea Clel. (L„ cmnamonem, cinnamon-coloured) . — Pileus 
4 to lin. (1.2 to 2.5 cm.), at first almost campanulato-convex, then expanding to 
convex, often more or less broadly umbonate, slightly floccose to flecked with 
minute scales. Light Pinkish Cinnamon (xxtx.) to Cinnamon or near Tawnv 
(XT.), sometimes when dry near Apricot Buff (XIV.). Gills just free or barely 
reaching the stem, rather close to moderately distant, rather narrow, vent.rieose, 
cream. Stem lin. (2.5 cm.), rarely IJin. (3.7 cm.), rather slender (5 mm. 
thick), slightly attenuated upwards, fibrillose to fibril lose-scaly up to the veil 
attachment which is superior, stuffed or slightly hollow, paler than the pileus to 
near Tawny, sometimes Cinnamon Rufous (xiv.). No definite ring. Flesh thin, 
whitish, in the stem with a cinnamon tint and white in the centre. Spores 
elliptical, slightly oblique, not thick-walled, 5.5 to 7.5 x 3.7 to 4 p. South Aus- 
tralia — Oil the ground in a. glade in stringy -bark forest, National Park; ill Pinits 
radiata Don. (P. Inxigni* Douglas) forest, Mount Burr (S.E.). May. 
25. Lepiota haemorrhagica Clel. (L., haemorrhages* , bleeding).- — Pileus £ to 
2in. (1.8 to 5 cm.), convex to nearly plane, sometimes irregular, sometimes sub- 
umbnnate, covered with reddish brown (crimson-lake) fibrillose settles thicker and 
darker at the disc. Gills free, close, creamy -coloured turning reddish like a fresh 
blood-stain when bruised. Stem 2in. (5 cm.), relatively rather stout, attenuated 
upwards, slightly hollow, clothed with reddish-brown fibrils even above the distant 
definite membranous pale to reddish ring. Flesh thin, white, turning a little 
reddish especially in the stem. Spores elliptical, slightly oblique, not thick- 
walled, microscopically slightly tinted, 5.5 to 7 x 3.5 to 4 ft. On the ground in 
Eucalyptus forest. South Australia — Mount Burr (S.E.), National Park. May, 
June. 
**Pileus not or rarely squamulose, often granular, mealy or pruinose. 
( a ) Ring superior, fixed, stbpersistent ; universal veil adnate to the 
pi leds. Collar wanting or similar in texture to the flesh of 
THE PILEUS. 
26. Lepiota naucina Fr. var. leucothites (Vitt.) Fr. (L., umtei, the shell of a 
nut; Gr., ImiJvffs, white). — Pileus up to 4in. (10 cm.), globose, then deeply convex, 
then expanding, slightly umbonate or occasionally depressed in the centre, smooth, 
file cuticle (which peals) tending at times to separate into minute often punctate 
fibrillose scales, soft and easily indented, pure white with Disunity or smoky brown 
tints (near Huffy Brown, Natal Brown or Wood Brown, XL.) appearing near the 
centre. Gills just free, ventrieose, close, up to Jin. (6 to 8 mm.) or more in 
depth, slightly attenuated both ways, white or creamy white, in some plants 
showing a Seashell Pink (xiv.) tint, becoming discoloured brownish. Stem up to 
