OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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wood on tlio .ground at the base of stumps, or amongst fallen leaves and grass 
or pine needles. South Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park, Baker’s Gully 
near Clarendon, Kuitpo, Kineliina, Kalangadoo (under Finns'), Caroline State 
Forest (near Mount Gambier, under Finns). New South Wales — Cam be warm 
Mount. May to August. (Figure 14 A.) 
Readily recognised by the lilacy or vinaceous tint of the whole plant and the 
onespitose habit. 
IV. Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, fibrillose at the base, scarcely rooting but not 
dilated or inserted. Pilous hvgrophanous. Hills changing colour, at length 
somewhat connected by veins. Usually strong-scented. Solitary and terrestrial, 
a few caespitose and lignicoious. 
75. Mycena fusca del. (L., fuscus, dusky). — Pileus up to Jin. or Jin. (1.2 to 
1.8 cm.) or more, conieo-eampunulate to broadly conical or convex, then convex 
oi’ nearly plane with a subacute umbo, striate, periphery Drab (xi.vi.) or near 
ABC 
[From watercolours by Miss Buxton , Miss Five ash , and M)Xs# 1\ Clarke respectively. 
Figure 14. A. Mycena vinucea Clel. (No. 74). Under Pimis, Kuitpo. 
B. Clitoeybe campestris Clel. (No. 44). E.agle-on-the-Hill. 
C. Mycena sanyuinolenta (A. et S.) Fr. (No. 77). Narrabeen, New South 
Wales 
Light Cinnamon Drab (xi.vi.) or Wood Brown (XL.) grading into Fuscous ami 
Fuscous Black (xlvi.), or Bone Brown (xl.), hvgrophanous, becoming' pallid 
brown and striate. Gills adnate with a trace of a decurrent tooth, moderately 
close, alternate ones short, greyish-white. Stem ljin. to 2in. (3.7 to 5 cm.), 
slender, rather fragile, smooth, twisting on bisecting, hollow, below paler than 
Olive Brown (xr„) or Vinaceous Buff (XL.) to Bone Brown (xl.), pallid above, 
rather strigose or with a little mycelium at the base. Definite slight, nitrous 
smell. Spores 7.5 to 11 x 3.5 to 5 /i. Single, on damp soil or on fallen leaves, 
twigs, etc. South Australia — Waterfall Gully, National Park. April, May. 
Characterised by the habitat (on the ground), the nitrous smell, the drab- 
coloured cap darker (fuscous) in the centre, adnate greyish-white gills and slender 
brownish stem. 
76. Mycena pullata Berk, et Cke. (L., pullus, dark coloured). — Pileus Jin. 
(1.8 cm.), convex, umbonate, edge slightly striate, the umbo a very dark brown, 
the rest of the pileus smoky brown. Gills adnate, close, pure white. Stem 21 in. 
(6.2 cm.), slender, shining, hollow, dark brown below becoming pallid under the 
gills, a few white fibrils at the base. Spores elliptical, 9 to 1 1.2 x 5.5 to 6 
Cystidia fusiform, 9(1 x 15 a- Smell slightly nitrous. Subeaespitose amongst 
fallen leaves, bark and earth mould. South Australia — Mount Lofty. April. 
