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THE LARGER FUNGI 
**Stom coloured. 
163. Astrosporina asterospora (Quel.) Eea (G., aster, a star; spora, seed). — 
Pilous 1 ]in. (3.1 cm.), convex with a large conical umbo, fibrillose, somewhat 
golden brown. Gills adnexed, nearly free, moderately close, cinnamon brown. 
Stem .lfjin. (3.1 cm.), moderately stout, slightly attenuated upwards, striate, 
fibrous, solid, pallid-brown. Spores irregularly nodular, 7 p, 8.5 x 7 p. Cystidia 
40 x 12 to 14 p. South Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park. April. 
British plants from Rea’s description are larger; the gills whitish bistre, then 
cinnamon, emarginate and ventricose, the stem reddish, streaked with brown 
fibrils, pubescent, with the base marginately bulbous, and the spores 9 to 12 p. 
11. No Cystidia. 
164. Astrosporina discissa del. (L., ducindo, d'iscissum , to split). — Pileus lin. 
(2.5 cm.), convex, mnbonate, markedly flbrillose, splitting, earthy brown. Gills 
apparently just free, ventricose, earthy brown. Stem lin. (2.5 cm.), rather 
slender, slightly pruinose above when young, then smooth, equal, base slightly 
swollen, whitish or pallid brownish. Seminal smell. Spores knobby, brown, 
9 x 6 p. South Australia — Upper Tunkalilla Creek. June. 
165. Astrosporina imbricata Clel. (L., imbrioafus, laid one under another like 
tiles). — Pileus up to fin. (16 mm.), convex or slightly eouico-eainpanulate, shaggy 
from imbricate adpressed fibrils, dark earthy brown. Gills adnato, then seceding, 
moderately close, slightly ventricose, dark brown. Stem fin. (16 mm.), 
moderately slender, equal, stuffed, fibrillose, pallid brownish. Flesh of pileus 
pallid, of stem brownish. Spores angular, 9 to 11 x 5.5 p. Large inflated jointed 
hyphne present. On ground. South Australia — Kiuchina. June. 
***Gills sinuate. 
HEEELOMA Fr. 
(Or., hebr, youth; Idnm, a fringe.) 
“Pilous fleshy, regular, margin incurved. Stem central, fibrous or fleshy. 
Gills sinuate, sinuato-adnexod or adnexed. Spores ochraceous, ferruginous or 
fuscous; elliptical, pip-shaped, pruniform, almond-shaped, elliptic oblong or fusi 
form; smooth, continuous. Cystidia present or absent. Growing on the ground; 
solitary, caespitose or subcaespitose. ’ ’ — Rea. 
The genus is characterised by the brown spores (alut.aceous, rarely ferruginous), 
the flesh of the stem continuous with and similar to that of the pileus and the 
baying of the gills at their attachment. Flam, mala differs in the gills being adnate 
or subdecurrent and the spores ochraceous or ferruginous. In Cortinarim there 
is a spider-web-like general veil, and in Inocybe and Astrosporina a general veil 
leaves a silky-fibrillose covering on the pileus. 
The genus does not seem common in South Australia and few species have 
been recognised. For 40 years, however, an evidently introduced species, 
If. Mem kde, lias occurred in t'roups under Finns and other exotic trees. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Cortina present when young. 
Pileus 1 to 24in., conical when young, edge pale 
buff, disc date brown. Gills pallid, then sayal 
brown. Spores 9 to 10 x 5 p 166. Hrbehrma 
mcsophaeuin. 
Similar but smaller, pileus to lin. Spates 8 to 11 
x 4.8 to 6.5 p 167. H. mssophaeum var. 
minus. 
Cortina absent. 
Pileus 2 to 3in., not umbonate, periphery pale buff 
to whitish, disc sayal brown, cinnamon buff, etc., 
intermediate zone as if seen through a whitish 
film. Gills pallid becoming buckthorn brown. 
Stem white. Spores 10 t'o 13 x 5.5 to 7 p . . 168. 7J. hiemale. 
