OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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Only a few species have been recorded for this State. Pholiota praecox, a 
species eaten in the United States, grows on lawns and may not be recognised 
at first as belonging to this genus on account of the ring soon becoming in- 
definite. Pholiota advposu, a handsome large species with a scaly pilous grows 
on the trunks of timber trees and is a destructive species; it has not been 
recorded from South Australia, but occurs in the Blue Mountains in New South 
Wales. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Growing on the ground, not actuate to mosses, rarely 
caespitose. . 
I ’ileus viscid when moist. 
On lawns and grassy places. 
In early autumn. Pilous 1 to ljin., 
cream to warm buff. Gills at first 
pallid. Ring evanescent. Spores 9 to 
do x 7 to 9 p 1-0. Pholiota praecox. 
In forest. 
Pilous Sin., striate, yellow-brown. Gills 
adnate, rusty cinnamon. Stem fibril- 
lose. Ring superior, slightly coloured. 
Spores 8 to 8.5 x 5.5 p . . .' 121. Ph. subtogularis. 
Pilous not viscid, hygrophanous. 
Edge of pileus striate. 
Gills finely serrate. 
Ring pallid, superior. Pileus to lfin., 
convex, sometimes subumbonate, 
verona brown to tawny, drying 
buff. Gills adnate. Spores 6.5 to 
9.5 x 4 to 6 m 122. Ph. serrukita. 
Gills not serrate. 
Ring marked, yellowish-brown. Pileus 
to Jin., mineral brown. Gills ad- 
nexed to adnate, yellowish-cinna- 
mon. Spores 9 to 13.8 x 6 to 7 p . 123. Ph. recedens. 
Edge of pileus not or rarely striate. 
Ring evident. 
Amongst grass. Pileus i to fin., 
convex. Gills adnate with decurrent 
tooth, ferruginous. Stem pallid 
brown, striate, base swollen, with 
whitish mycelium. Spores 6.5 to 8 
x 4 to 5 p 124 . Ph. gramiinwm. 
In open forest or scrub. Pileus to 
1 fin., maroon when moist to russet 
or tawny when dry. Gills adnate. 
Stem Kaiser brown. Ring pallid. 
Spores 7.5 to 10.5 x 4.5 to 5.5 p . 125. Ph. Tuf'O-flcwa. 
Ring often indefinite, pallid. On bare 
ground or under trees. 
Pileus usually subumbonate, yellowish- 
brown drying pallid. Gills adnate, 
reddish brown. Stem pallid to 
reddish brown. Spores 7.5 to 9.5 
x 4.5 to 5 126. Ph. imperfecta. 
Growing on or near wood. 
Densely caespitose near stumps. 
Pileus to 3in., raw sienna to empire yellow. 
Gills umber. Stem shaggy, deep colonial 
buff. Spores 7.5 x 4 to 4.5 p .. 127. Ph. squarrosipes. 
Single or few together on logs, chips, etc. 
Hygrophanous. 
Pileus lfin., reddisli-brown drying cinnamon 
buff. Gills adnate becoming rusty. Stem 
pallid brown with white mycelial base. 
Spores 8.5 x 4.8 128- Fti - enogenus. 
