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THE LARGER FUNGI 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Pileus and stem very glutinous. 
Pileus pure white with slight brownish tint in 
centre. Gills adnate or adnexed. Spores 
approaching subspherieal, 4.5 to (i.5 x 3 to 4 y . . 50. Hygropliorow am- 
dicfais. 
Pileus Arm, opaque. 
Pilous finely squamulose, dark sooty brown. Gills 
adnate-arcuate to adnexed. Stem white with 
greyish tint. Spores 7.5 to 9.5 x 4.5 to 5 y. . . 51. S'. fuKgineo-squamo- 
sus. 
Pileus thin, watery, fragile. 
Pileus eonieo-expanded, variously coloured (red, 
orange yellow, yellowish-green), drying black. 
Gills just free, rosy-yellowish or yellowish . . . . 52. if. conicus. 
Pileus eonicO-eonvex, scarlet. Gills adnate, rosy 
with the margins yellowish. Stem scarlet above, 
yellowish below, base whitish 53. U., ootccineus. 
I. Subgenus Limacium,. (L., Umax, a snail or slug.) “Universal veil viscid, 
wi(h occasionally a floceose, partial one which is annular or marginal. Stem 
clothed with scales or more frequently rough with dots above. Gills adnato- 
docurrenf. ’ ’ — Rea. 
50. Hygrophorus candidus Cke. et Mass. (L., candidus, shining white). — 
Pileus and stem glutinous, with a glutinous cobweb-like veil when young, fragile. 
Pileus up to 2Jin. ((i.2 cm.), conico-convex to convex, then expanding and nearly 
plane, umbonate, edge turned in and thin, sometimes striate or with reticulated 
ribs, pure white with brownish bisc-uity tints approaching Tawny Olive (xxxix. ) 
round the centre. Gills adnate or adnexed, close, slightly ventricose, narrow 
triangular on section, creamy white, becoming discoloured. Stem up to 2-Jin. 
(6.2 cm.), rather flexuous, moderately slender (up to fin., 15 mm. thick above), 
attenuated downwards, stuffed or slightly hollow, root conical, white, sometimes 
becoming slightly brownish. Spores elliptical to subspherieal, sometimes a little 
irregular or slightly warty, 4.5 to 6.5 x 3 to 4 y, 3.7 to 5.5 y. On the ground 
often under Eucalypts. South Australia — Beaumont (near Adelaide), Greenhill 
Road, Morialta, Mount Lofty, National Park, Kinchina, Encounter Bay, Bang-ham, 
Mount Scliank (S.E.). Victoria. April, May, July. 
Readily recognised by its pure white appearance with tints of brown on the 
cap and the very glutinous pileus and stem. 
II. Subgenus Camarophyllus. (Gr., Uamara, a vault; phyllon, a leaf). — “Veil 
none. Stem even, smooth or fibrillose, not rough with dots. Pileus firm, opaque, 
moist in rainy weather, not viscid. Gills distant, arcuate. ’’ — Rea. 
51. Hygrophorus fuligineo-squamosus Clel. (L., fuligineiu s, sooty; squamoms. 
scaly). — Pileus 1J to 2 jin. (3.1 to 6.8 cm.), irregularly convex to plane or finally 
upturned, finely squamulose or fibrillo-fioceose, dark sooty brown, near Clove 
Brown (XL.) or Grab (xr.vi.), the scales darker. Gills adnate-arcuate, adnexed 
or usually slightly sinuate, moderately close, alternately short, narrow triangular 
in cross section, rather thick, sometimes ventricose, }in. (6 mm.) deep, glaucous 
grey (lighter than Mouse Grey, Li.). Stem up to 2in. (5 cm.), equal above but 
attenuated at the base into the conical root, fibrillose or fibrillose-squanmlose with 
often in addition a few superficial fine dark spiderweb-like fibrils, solid, whitish 
with a greyish tint, often speckled sooty-brown from the fibrils. Flesh of the 
stem and pilous continuous, white with a slight grey tint. Whole plant rather 
moist'- looking. Slight mealy smell. Spores elliptical, oblique, 7.5 to 9 x 4.5 to 
5.5 y. On the ground. South Australia — Mount Lofty (in Eucalyptus forest), 
Kim-liina, MacGonnell Bay (S.E.). May to July. 
