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THE LARGER FUNGI 
ring, browner than Tawny to Buckthorn Brown (XV.). Spores elliptical, oblique, 
not thick-walled, 5.5 to 6.5 x 3.2 to 4 p. Amongst moss on shady banks. South 
Australia — Greenhill Road, Mount Lofty, National Bark. .Tune to Aua-ust 
(Figure 10.) 
An albino plant was found near a normal specimen oil the Greenhill Road in 
August, 1922. The pilous was white with a faint tinge only of buff, and the 
stem white, smooth and slightly striate above the superior ring, mealy white below. 
34. Ar miliaria asprata Berk. (I,., anpratus, rough), — When young a little knob 
covered witli orange warts. When expanded pilous lj to 2in. (3.5 to 5 cm.) in 
diameter, almost plane, depressed in the centre, margin incurved, pale yellow 
covered with orange-red conical warts which are large and close-set in the centre 
and diminish in size towards the margin, margin slightly floecose. Gills broadly 
adnate with a small decurrent tooth or shortly decurrent, rather distant', broad 
(up to (i mm.), white. Stem H to g|in. (3.5 to 5.5 cm.), 4 nun. in diameter, 
equal, expanding into the pileus, usually curved at the base, covered with floecose 
down up to the apex, stuffed then hollow, orange below becoming pale yellow 
above. Veil more or less arachnoid, disappearing. Flesh white, somewhat spongy. 
Spores subglobose, white, 7 to 8 x 5 to 6 pt. On dead wood. (Description by 
T. Petch of Ceylon specimens.) South Australia — Mount Lofty, June, minute 
very immature specimens, only a few nun. in diameter but with the characteristic 
orange-yellow warts composed of fasciculated twisted fibrils, giving a hedge-hog 
appearance. New' South Wales — -Typical expanded specimens have been found 
at Mogul. •in in April and May. 
**Gills sinuate. 
TRICHOLOMA Fr. 
(Gi\, flu' i.r, trickos, a hair; Ionia, a fringe.) 
‘‘I’ileus fleshy, regular, margin incurved. Stem central, fleshy. Gills sinuate, 
sinuato-adnate or decurrent by a tooth. Spores white, rarely pinkish or yellowish 
in the mass; elliptical, oval, pip-shaped, globose, subglobose or oblong; smooth, 
punctate, verrucose or eehinulate; continuous. Cystidia present or absent. Grow- 
ing on tlie ground, very rarely on wood, sometimes forming large rings.” — Rea. 
Tlie species are nearly all terrestrial ‘‘mushrooms,” fleshy, Arm, and some- 
times large, characterised by the white spores, the fleshy central stem continuous 
with and similar to the substance of the pileus, and the gills not passing straight 
to the stem but more or less definitely bayed (sinuate, emarginate) at their 
attachment. Pleural up differs in the stem, if present, not being central. In 
Clitoeybe the gills pass straight to the stem, and it is often a difficult matter 
to determine whether this is tlie case or whether haying is really present but 
obscure. An examination of several specimens from a collection may be necessary 
before the true attachment of the gills can lie ascertained, as individual plants 
may fail to show this clearly. In. some species the pileus is viscid; its colour is 
usually not vivid, though some species have lilac or purplish tints. The gills in 
some cases become spotted. Home have a pleasant smell and some are edible. 
Doubtless a number of species of Tri< holoma occur in this State, but as yet 
few have been recognised. In any case the individual members arc few. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
I’ileus viscid or subviscid. fibriliose, scaly or pubescent. 
Gills changing colour, generally with reddish spots. 
I’ileus variegated with tints of viuaeeuus 
brown. Gills adtiexed, near avellaneous, 
stem stout. Often caespitose, pressed 
together and deformed 35. Trictolowl coarctala. 
l’ileus not viscid, torn into scales or fibriilose. 
Gills not changing colour. 
I’ileus 2 to 3in., ochraceous tawny, strigose 
with vinaceo-us brown fibrils. Gills warm 
bull' to antimony yellow. Stem densely 
velvety fibriilose, russet to dark vinaceous 
brown. Spores 7 x 5.6 ,« 36. T. rvl Ha n.s. 
