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(b) Gills becoming reddish ok cinerous or spotted. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
D. I ’ileus at first slightly silky, soon becoming smooth, very dry. 
(a) Gills broad, rather thick, distant. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
(ft) Gills thin, crowded, narrow. Small, inodorous. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
E. Pilous fleshy, soft, fragile, spotted or livulose. Vernal. 
(a) Gills whitish. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
(b) Gills discoloured, rufescent or smoky. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
F. Pileus compact, then spongy, obtuse, even, smooth, moist, not hygrophanous. 
(a) Gills not discoloured. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
(ft) Gills discoloured. 
37. Tricholoma nudum (Bull.) Fr. (L., nudus, naked). — Pileus 24in. (5.6 cm.), 
convex, slightly umbonate, fibrill ose-tomentose, smoother round the edge, lilac- 
tinted to pallid (becoming Drab Gray, xlVi.). Gills sinuately adnexed, 
moderately close, rather narrow, Light Cinnamon Drab (xlvi.), Ecru Drab (xlvi.) 
to Pale Alliaceous Drab (xlv.). Stem li to 2 Jin. (3.7 to 5.6 cm.), rather slender 
to stout to ; in., S to 12 mm., thick), fibrillose, stuffed, near Light Cinnamon 
Drab (xlvi.), with whitish mycelium at the base. Flesh of the stem similar to 
that of the pileus. Spores obliquely elliptical, 7.5 to 9 x 4 to 5 y. South Aus- 
tralia — Under Pin us, on the ground and on dung, Thornton Park Reservoir, near 
Adelaide; Enfield. July, August. 
G. Pileus thin, subumbonate, hygrophanous. 
(a) Gills whitish, unspotted. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
(b) Gills becoming violet, grey or fuliginous. 
38. Tricholoma sublilacinum Clel. (L., subUlaeinus, somewhat lilac-tinted). - 
The whole plant when moist with a distinct lilac tint. Pileus up to l(in. (4.3 cm.), 
irregularly plane, repand or slightly upturned, subumbonate, edge interned when 
young, smooth, hygrophanous, when moist near Benzo Brown (xlvi.), diying 
through Light Drab (xlvi.) to drab whitish. Gills adnate, usually a i t li a 
decurrent tooth, moderately close, alternate ones reaching about half way with 
shorter ones reaching quarter-way interposed, near Pale Brownish Drab (xlv.). 
Stem up to ljin. (3.1 cm.), slender, |in. (6 mm.) or less in diameter, often 
curved, somewhat striate, tinted with pallid drab. Flesh of stem continuous with 
and homogeneous with that of the pileus. Mushroomy smell. Spores obliquely 
elliptical, 6 to 7 x 3.5 y. South Australia — Mylor. May. 
***Gills decurrent or adnato-decurrent by a tooth. 
Hymenium not waxy or pulverulent. 
CLITOCYBE Fr. 
(Ur., Tclitos, a slope; by be, a head.) 
“Pileus fleshy, regular or irregular; margin incurved. Stem centra], externally 
fibrous. Gills decurrent, rarely adnate, with an acute edge. Spores white, raiely 
yellowish or greenish; elliptical, pip-sliaped, globose, subglobose or oblong; 
smooth, punctate, verrucose or eehimiiate; continuous. Growing on the ground, 
rarely on wood, solitary or caespitose or forming rings.’’ — Rea. 
