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THE LARGER EUNGI 
the masses of fallen pollen grains. Single or at least not densely eaespitose. 
Spores oblique, one end rather pointed, 8.5 x 4 p. South Australia — In Finns 
radiata Don. (P. insignia Dougl.) forest, Mount Burr (8.E.). May. 
Characterised by the thin, rather tough, coarsely striate, earthy brown pileus 
drying to light pinkish cinnamon, and adnate gills of the same colour as is the 
villous tough slender stem. 
(id. Colly bia penetrans del. (L., penetrans, penetrating, in reference to the 
deeply descending root). — i’ilens 1 to l|in. (2.5 to -1.1 cm.), convex to irregularly 
plane or even upturned, sometimes repand, occasionally subumbonate or umbili- 
cate, innately flbrillose, sometimes slightly radiately rugose, Russet (xv.) round 
the periphery to Mars Brown (xv.) in the centre (the two zones contrasting). 
Ochraceous Tawny (xv.), near Sanford’s Brown and Auburn (H.), Mikado Brown 
and Orange Cinnamon (XXIX.). Dills slightly sinuately adnexed. moderately 
close, Cinnamon Buff (xxix.) becoming Ochraceous Tawny (xv.) or with tints 
of Rood’s Brown (xxvili.), with a tendency to a bloom. Stem J to 1 [in. (1.8 to 
11.1 cm.) above ground, slender (4 mm. thick), hollow, densely velutinate, near 
Argus Brown (ill.) and Sudan Brown (in.), passing into a long root (2 to 3im, 
5 to 7.5 cm., long), swollen at the ground level to 7 mm., attenuated downwards, 
slightly irregular, whole stem rather tough, fihrillo-cartilaginous differing in tex- 
ture from the flesh of the pileus, attached to deeply buried rootlets. Flesh of 
pileus and stem near Antimony Yellow (xv.). Spores oblique, narrow pear- 
shaped, 7.5 to S x 4 to 4.5 p. ’ South Australia — In saudv loam and in burnt 
Eucalyptus eoxmophylUt scrub, Hall’s Creek near Encounter Bay. May. 
Characterised by the brown pileus, resting close to the ground, tin 1 ochraceous 
fawny gills (at first suggesting n hrown-spored species) and the densely velutinate 
almost rusty brown stem, short above ground hut descending deeply to be attached 
fo rootlets. 
C. Stem thin, glabrous. 
*Gills broad, rather distant. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
“Gills narrow, crowded. 
PI. Collybia eucalyptorum del. ( Eucalyptanim , of Eucalypf trees). — Pilous 
» to pfiii. ((US to 3.7 cm.), broadly eonico-campanulate to nearly plane, then 
slightly" upturned, smooth, with the surface dull from innate fibrils, edge slightly 
striate, Pale Pinkish Buff becoming Cinnamon Buff (xxix.), or Ochraceous Buff 
(XV.) and darker in the centre, becoming pallid townrds the periphery. Gills 
adnexed, close, narrow, with short ones at the periphery, creamy-white or 
approaching Warm Buff (xv.). Stem 1 to 2)in. (2.5 to 6.2 cm.) high, relatively 
slender ((in., 3,5 nun., or more thick), flexuons, smooth or subfib rill ose, barely 
striate, hollow, cartilaginous, differing from the flesh of the pileus, reddish brown 
(between Tawny, xv., and Russet, xv. ; Mikado Brown, xxix.). Flesh thin, 
slightly brownish. Smell moderately strong. Spores pear-shaped, hyaline, 5 to 
5.5 x 3.3 p- Caespitose at the bases of old trunks of Eucalyptus or stumps. 
South Australia — Mount Lofty Summit. June. 
62. Collybia subdryophila Glel. (SubdryophiJti, here, near to the species C. 
tlniupMa Bull.. Fr.). — Pileus up to ljin. (3.1 cm.), slightly convex, sometimes 
eventually a little upturned al the edge, irregular, matt, near Pinkish Buff 
( XXIX.).* Gills admit e to adnexed (once apparently sinuate), close, narrow, 
creamy white. Stem up to Him (3.7 cm.), rather slender, sometimes flattened, 
sometimes slightly attenuated upwards, smooth or matt, hollow, flesh confluent 
with but heterogeneous from that of the pileus, reddish brown (near Verona 
Brown, xxix.). Shed spores with one end more pointed, 4 to 4.2 x 2 p. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park, near Happy Valley, Hope Valley, Mount 
Compass, Kinchina. April, May, July, September, October. 
63. Collybia percava Cl el. (L., pemwus, very hollow). — Pileus IV to 2iu. 
(3.7 to 5 cm.), deeply convex at first, then expanding to convex often with the 
centre depressed, finally expanded and rather irregular, sometimes umbonate, 
sometimes with edge upturned, when young Mars Brown (xv.) drying at the 
apex through Russet (xv.) to darker than Tawny (XV.). Gills sinuato-adnexed, 
narrow (up to 5 mm. deep), moderately close, edge lacerated when large, with 
a. tint of Pale Ochraceous Butt' (XV.). Stem up to 2in. (5 cm.), swollen below 
especially when young, attenuated upwards (up to 1 cm. thick below and 6 mm. 
above), 'polished' very hollow near Saynl Brown (xxix.) or base browner than 
