OF SOOTH AUSTRALIA. 
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A * 4.8 to 5.2 m. Cystidia prominent on the gills, ventrieosc, flat-topped with 
prongs. On stumps. South Australia — National 1’urk, Greenhill Road. New 
South Waits. April, June, July. 
This species growing on stumps and logs can be recognised by the brown 
expanded pileus, usually with minute wart-like elevations, the pinkish-butt gills, 
usually slightly curved stem and microscopically the slightly tinted spores and 
prominent cystidia. It is not very common and is reported as edible. 
!><S. Pluteus nanus (Peis.) Fr. var. lutescens Fr. (L., mn-us, a dwarf ; lutescens, 
becoming yellow). — Pileus 1| to lfin. (3.1 to 4.4 cm.), slightly convex, then 
nearly plane, obscurely subumbonate, surface matt, slightly rivulose, faintly 
striate, near I’rout's Blown, Buckthorn Brown to Cinnamon Brown (xv.). (Jills 
just free or sometimes ndnexed, moderately close, manv short, ventricose, edges 
slightly fringed, near Warm Buff (xv.). Stem f to -in. (1.8 to 5 cm.), slender, 
slightly thickened below, slightly striate, solid, fibrocartilaginous, near Pinard 
Yellow (IV.) to Amber Yellow (xvi.). Flesh of pileus thin, semitranslucent 
greyish-brown, that of the stem yellow and separable from the pileus. Spores 
subspherical, slightly irregular, slightly tinted, 5 to 6.5 n. Cystidia not seen. 
On rotting wood. South Australia — National Park, Kinehina. July. 
(b) PJLEUS CONFLUENT AND HOMOGENEOUS WITH TI1E FLESHY STEM. 
*Gills sinuate. 
ENTOLOMA Fr. 
(Gr., rntiin, within; Inina, n fringe.) 
“Pileus fleshy, regular or irregular. Stem central, tibrons or fleshy. Gills 
sinuate, sinuato-adnate or ndnexed. Spores oink; angular, globose, elliptical e; 
verrucose. Cystidia rarely present. Growing on the ground, very rarely on wood; 
solitary, gregarious or eaespitose. ’ ’ — Rea. 
The genus corresponds with Tricholoma. The spores are usually angular. A 
number of species in other part's of the world are known to be poisonous. As 
the gills tend to become rosy or salmon-coloured from the mature spores, some 
species might possibly be mistaken by the careless for field mushrooms. We have 
several species, but the plants are usually uncommon and rarely more than a 
few individuals are found together. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Pileus drab with darker crack-like reticulations. Stem 
with a pale smoke-grey bloom. Spores subspherical, 
4.5 to 5.5 g 99. 
Pileus huffy brown, subumbonate. Stem greyish horn. 
Spores 8 to 9.5 x 6.5 /i 100. 
Pileus and stem white with buffv tint's. Gills dingy 
brownish flesh-coloured, edges serrate. Spores 10 
to 11 i 5 ft 101. 
Pileus blackish violaceous, conico-cotivex. Gills pallid 
greyish-buff. Stem steel grey. Spores angular, 
8x5/i 1 . . 1 02. 
Entolonui retimlaUi. 
E. mwonruiiH: 
E. serrata. 
E. Blntrami var. 
mujuluta. 
99. Entoloma reticulata del. (L., re lie Hiatus, netted). — Pileus 1 to 2in. (2.5 
to 5 cm.), convex, depressed in the centre, surface slightly shining to dull, 
reticulate with darker lines move or less concentrically arranged looking like 
cracks and passing into depressions in some specimens presenting a rimoso 
appearance, in some specimens near the periphery numerous little irregular raised 
darker patches separated by paler cracks, near Drab (X'lvt.), the cracks darker. 
Gills slightly sinuate with a tendency to a decurrent tooth, close, narrow, greyer 
than Pinkish Buff (xxjx.). Stem jin. (1.8 cm.), rather slender, striate below, 
stuffed or sometimes hollow above, with a greyish-brown bloom (Pale Smoke 
Grey, xlvi.), dark brown beneath. Flesh thin, whitish. Spores subspherical 
pear-shaped, rather angular, slightly coloured, 4.5 to 5.5 m- On the ground. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty. April. 
This species may perhaps be better placed under ClHopitm. 
