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Pileus pallid brown tinted with pink. 
Stem whitish. Gills pallid salmon with pink. 
Spores 11 to 16 x 8 /r 109. L. macmpara. 
Pileus snuff brown. 
Stem dark -brown. Gills greyer than pinkish 
cinnamon. Spores 0.5 y 110. L. tabaciita. 
Pileus darker and greyer than drab. 
Stem pale drab, rooting. Gills salmony drab. 
Spores 7.5 x 5.5 y 111. L. nulicaio. 
Pileus dark brown to fuscous. 
Stem dusky drab. Gills vinaeeous buff. 
Spores 11 to 111 x 7.5 y 112. L. fuuca. 
Pileus blackish. Stem blackish with steel blue tints. 
Gills whitish cinereous, edges not dark. Spores 
9 to 10 x 5.5 y 113. L. knnpropufi. 
Gills mouse grey, edges dark. Spores 1 1 x 
7.5 n 11-1. L. fusco-mai'cjinaUi. 
Pileus hygroplianous. 
Pileus colour of dead grass. 
Stem dingy greyish green. Gills pallid 
salmon. Spores 8 to 0 x 5.5 to 7.5 y . . 115. L. asprella ? 
*Not truly hygropluinous or markedly striate. 
106. Leptonia viride-marginata Glel. (L., viridis, green; marijinatus, edged). — 
Pileus Jin. (18 mm.), slightly convex with the centre dimpled, clad with small 
fibrillose scales, edge slightly sulcate, dark green (near Dusky Olive Green, m), 
Gills slightly sinuate with a decurrent tooth, moderately distant, alternate ones 
short, of a Light Pinkish Cinnamon (xu.) tint passing into dark green which 
edges the gills. Stem 2 Jin. (6.2 cm.), slender, flexuous, twisted, shining, finely 
punctate above, rather tough, llesh heterogenous from that of the pileus, hollow, 
dark gmn. Shed spores of salmony tint, microscopically angular pear-shaped, 
11 to 11.3 x 7.5 y, cystidia not seen'. On the ground. South Australia — Mount 
Lofty. June. 
Specimens, apparently of this species but lacking the green edge to the gills 
which were serrulate, have been found in sandy soil in Eucalyptus cosmophylla 
scrub at Hall’s Creek, Encounter Bay, in May. The pileus was J to Jin. (1.2 to 
1.8 cm.), umbilicate, striate, velutinate when young, becoming finely fibrillose, 
Yellowish Oil Green (v.), Roman Green (xvi.), near Olive Lake and Dull Citrine 
(xvi.), or Olive Ochre (x'xx.). Gills adnate or slightly sinuate with a tendency 
to a decurrent tooth, moderately close, relatively rather deep (up to 5 mm.), near 
Naphthalene Yellow (xVi.) to paler than Maize Yellow ( IV.) . Stem lin. (2.5 cm.) 
or less, equal or slightly attenuated downwards, polished. Flesh of the pileus 
very thin. Spores angular, with a large guttu, slightly tinted, 10 x 7.5 y. 
107. Leptonia formosa Fr. (L., farvwmw, beautiful). — Pileus J to Jin. (1.2 to 
1.8 cm.), convex to nearly plane, umbilicate, fibrillose, sometimes scaly in the 
centre, dark yellow-brown (dark honey-coloured). Gills adnate or with a de- 
current tooth, moderately close, pallid pinkish buff. Stem lin. (2.5 cm.), slender, 
polished, brittle, with cartilaginous cortex and pith similar to the flesh of the 
pileus, colour more pallid than that of the pileus. Spores angular, tinted, 10 x 
6 y. Single or several together, in sandy soil or heath. South Australia — Near 
Mount Burr (S.E.). May. 
The species is characterised by the “yellow cast to the whole plant and the 
striate and squamulose pileus’’ (Kauffmatin), The gills in the early stage are 
‘ ‘ light-yellow-pallid ’ ’ (Rea). Striat um of the pileus and the yellow tinge of 
the gills were not noted in the specimens we refer to this species. 
108. Leptonia albida del. (L„ nlbiduu, whitish). — Pileus up to Jin. (1.8 cm), 
slightly irregularly convex, then plane and a little depressed, subirmbonate, dull 
white. Gills adnate or very slightly sinuate, moderately close, whitish. Stem 
Jin. (1.8 cm,), slender, slightly attenuated downwards, stuffed tending to be 
hollow, cartilaginous brown below tending to become dark, whitish .just below 
the gills. Spores subspherieal, angular, slightly tinted, 6.5 x 3.2 y, 4.8 y. 
Cystidia not seen. South Australia — On the ground amongst dead sticks, Kinchina. 
July. 
