OP SOI IT H AUSTRALIA. 
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Pilous compact, smooth, moist, not hygrophanous. 
(tills discoloured. 
Pilous lilac, to pallid. Gills sinuately adnexed, 
cinnamon dral) to vinaceous drab. Stem 
light cinnamon drab 37. T. rmdum. 
Pilous thin, subumbonate, hvgrophanous. 
Gills becoming violet', grey, or fuliginous. 
Whole plant with lilac tint when moist. Gills 
nduate with decurrent tooth 38. T. siibliUieinum. 
A. Pileus viscid, fibriilose, scaly, or pubescent. 
(a) Gills not changing colour. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
(6) Gills changing colour, generally with reddish spots. 
35. Tricholoma coarctata Cke. et Mass. (L., caarctkitus, pressed together). — 
Pileus 2 to 5}in. (5 to 13.7 cm.), very irregular, convex, repand, subflbrillose, 
sometimes with adpressed fibrils rimosely cracking into adherent scales, splitting, 
somewhat viscid when moist, sometimes becoming shiny, sometimes a little up- 
turned at tile edge, edge a little involute when young, a little more vinaceous than 
Wood Brown (XL.) and often paler or near Pet-can Brown (xxvn.), becoming 
darker near Auburn ( II. ) , or near Mikado Brown to Verona Brown (xxix.), or 
sometimes pallid with vinaceous brown tints. Gills adnexed or slightly sinuate, 
tending to fall short of the stem, slightly ventricose, | to fin. (6 to 9 mm.) 
deep, moderately close, cream-coloured to near Avellaneous (XL.), later spotted 
with reddish to vinaceous brown. Stem 1 to Sin. (2.5 to 7.5 cm.), stout (up to 
liim, 5.7 cm.), swollen in the middle or nearly equal, conical downwards, with 
some tine fibrils, pallid with tints of the pileus. Sometimes with slight evidence 
of a ring just below the gills. Flesh to nearly Jin. (1.8 cm.) thick, attenuated 
outwards, white. Smell slight. Spores obliquely elliptical to subspherical, 5.(3 
to 8 x 3.5 to 5 p, 8.5 x 7.5 /t. More or less caespitose under Euealypts, often 
pressed together and deformed and partly buried by soil. South Australia — 
Burnside, Greenhill Road, Mount Lofty, near Ashbourne, Mount Compass, Back 
Valley off Inman Valley, Second Valley, Kinchina, MacDonnell Bay (S.E.). 
New South Wales— Sydney, Newcastle. ' March to July. (Plate III. Central 
figure.) 
This is probably the ring-less form of ArmiHarm rolossa var. australis. It is 
a, common rather large stout species found under Euealypts, the pileus somewhat 
variegated with tints of brown, the gills becoming spotted reddish-brown. It is 
often partly covered by soil. 
B. Pileus never viscid; torn into scales or fibriilose. 
(«) Gills not changing colour. 
.3(1. Tricholoma rutilans (Schaeff.) Er. (L., rutilans, becoming reddish).— 
Pileus 2 to 3in. (5 to 7.5 cm.), convex, subumbonate, densely strigose with the 
fibrils twisted into fascicles, Ochraceous Tawny (xv.), the fibriilose scales more 
Russet (xv.) to Cinnamon Brown (xv.) and tinted with Vinaceous Brown 
( xxxix). Gills just reaching the stem, moderately close, up to 5 mm. deep, veil 
tricose, in three tiers, edges rather thick and finely serrate, Warm Buff (xv.) to 
Antimony Yellow (xv.). Stem llin. (3.7 cm.), slightly exeentric, moderately 
stout (1 to 1.5 cm. thick), densely velvety fibriilose, slightly curved, tough, solid, 
Russet to Dark Vinaceous Brown (xxxix.). Flesh yellowish, continuous with 
that of the stein, thick over the disc, attenuated outwards. Spores subspherical 
to oval, 7 x 5.6 /i, 6.5 p. South Australia — On a bank at the bases of 
Lej.'tospermum scoparium Forst. et f. and a sedge. Encounter Bay. May. 
(b) Gills kueescent ok becoming cinf.rous, edge often spotted red or black. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
C. Cuticle of the pileus rigid, punetato-granulate or broken up into glabrous 
squamules when dry. 
(a) Gills white or pallid, not spotted. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
