OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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with a few strigose hairs at the base, pallid above, then pale brownish, dark 
brownish-grey near the base. Spores 9.3 x 5.5 p. Densely caespitose on fallen 
trunks. South Australia — Second Valley Forest Reserve, Mount Lofty, National 
Park, Baker’s Gully near Clarendon. May, June, August. 
This caespitose species growing on fallen trunks, etc., is characterised by the 
very dark brownish-grey cap with an umbo, sinuate grey gills attached to a 
collar and without a decurrent tooth, and a stem pallid above and dark below. 
72. Mycena Cunninghamiana Clel. (After Dr. G. H. Cunningham, the New 
Zealand mycologist). — Pileus up to l|in. (4.3 cm.), convex, subumbonate, some- 
times with a slight depression round the umbo, irregularly rugose, a little yellower 
than Avellaneous (xl.) becoming browner towards the summit and very dark at 
the apex. Gills adnate, fairly close, rather narrow, becoming pale Vinaceous 
Buff (xl,.). Stem Jin. (-7,5 cm.), smooth above, base densely strigose, hollow, 
near Verona Brown (xxix. ) gft the base, paler above. Spores 8 to 8.5 x 5.5 p 
Densely caespitose on stumps South Australia — Mount Lofty. July. (Figure 12.) 
[ From watercolour by Miss A. Rennie. 
Figure 12 . — Mycena Cunningh a miwna Clel. (No. 72). National Park. 
73. Mycena maculata del (L., ■manilaius, spotted). — Pileus broadly conical, 
up to fin. (1.8 cm.), then expanding and finally nearly plane and up to 1 Ain. 
(3.7 tin.), usually broadly subumbonate and sometimes with an irregular hole-likc 
depression in the broad umbo, slightly rugose at the periphery, finally striate in 
the centre, sometimes slightly zoned and ridged, when young Buffv Brown (xl.) 
or Mummy Brown (xv.) to paler than Olive Brown (XL.), or becoming very 
dark brown at the umbo (Clove Brown, XL., sometimes Verona Brown, xxix., or 
paler than Snuff Brown, xxix.), with the periphery paler, when old near Warm 
Sepia (xxix.) with the periphery pallid near Avellaneous (xl.). Gills adnexed 
or sinuate-adnexed, ventricose, moderately close, when young nearly pure white 
or in some collections very decidedly greyish, when old becoming reddish-brown 
and spotted with Chestnut' Brown (xiv.). Stem 2 to 3in. (5 to 7.5 cm.), shining, 
smooth, sometimes flattened, with strigose hairs in some collections passing 2in. 
up the stem, hollow, at first brown below and pallid above, finally dark brown 
(Warm Sepia, xxix.) throughout or Verona- Brown (xxix.) higher up. Shed 
