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THE LARGER FUNGI 
stem of tin* grass-tree ( Xanthorrhoua ), occasionally amongst fallen chips on the 
ground or on the ground probably near buried wood. South Australia — National 
Park, Mount Lofty, Eagle-on-.the-Hill, Mitcham, Upper Tunkalilla Creek, Second 
Valley Forest Reserve, Bangham, Mount (lambier. New South Wales. May to 
August. 
This is a common, rather variable species, recognised by its habitat (nearly 
always on fallen logs), by its usually moderate size and in general tawny colour, 
the pilous being often librilloselv scaly and the stem fibrillose. It is probably 
closely related to F. mpinvtt Fr. and F. purpunita Cke. et Massee. 
177. Flammula excentrica var, macrospora Clel. (G., mulcros, long; spom, a 
seed ). — Differs from the typical form in the larger spores, 9.5 to 15 x 5.5 to 7.5 g. 
I 'ileus about Sin. (5 cm.), convex, smooth or tending to be scaly fibrous, soft, 
tawny reddish brown. Gills adnate, same colour. Stem excentric, short, striate- 
librillose, reddish-brown. On dead wood. South Australia — Upper Tunkalilla 
Greek, Kinchin a, Mount Burr (S.E.). May to July. 
17, S. Flammula purpurata Cke. et Mass. (L., pw-pwratm, clad in purple). — 
I ’ileus up to Sin. (5 cm.), convex, covered with adpressed somewhat warty fibrils 
or matt-tibrillose, the edge inturned, red dish-purplish -brown or purplish-red with 
tints of green and yellow. Gills slightly sinuate, deep, moderately close, waxy- 
yellow, becoming brownish-cinnamon-yellow. Stem up to Ilia. (3.7 cm.), rather 
stout, a little attenuated upwards, somewhat striate or fibrillose, tough, pallid 
yellowish-brown above with tints of the pilous below. Spores oblique, yellowish- 
brown, 6.5 to S.5 x 4.5 to 5.2 g. Cystidia not seen. On fallen trunks and wood. 
South Australia — Port Lincoln and Big Swamp, E.P. May. 
Closely related to F. xapiliea Fr. Recognisable by the purplish tints on the 
pilous and often on the stem. 
179. Flammula eucalyptorum Clel. (L., evcalyptorwm, of Kucalvpts). — Pilous 
i to 1 [in. (1.2 to 3 cm.), deeply convex, then more expanded, villosc-fibrillose or 
somewhat strig'ose, edge at first inturned, near Buckthorn Brown (xv.), Tawny 
(x'v.) with often Ochraceous Buff (xv.) round the edge, or Amber Brown (iu.). 
Gills sinuntely adnexed, moderately close, narrow, slightly ventricose, between 
Yellow Ochre (xv.) and Ochraceous Tawny (xv.), Ochraceous Buff (xv.), or 
between Amber Brown and Sudan Brown (111.) with a tinge of Raw Sienna, 
Stem l to 14in. (1.2 to 3.7 cm.), often curved, subtibrillose below, mealy above, 
solid or slightly hollow, apparently fleshy or in some collections cartilaginous, 
pallid above to yellowish-brown, brownish or Ochraceous Buff (xv.) below. 
Flesh yellowish. Spores obliquely elliptical, often slightly rough, yellowish -brown, 
7 to 9 x 4.5 to 6 g. Cystidia not seen. On fallen rotting Eucaiypt logs or on 
the adjacent ground. South Australia — Kuitpo, Eagle-oa-the-Hill, Mount Lofty, 
National Park. May to July. ( Figure 22 A.) 
Figure 22. — A. FUimmulti euealyptomm Clel. (No. 179). Mount Lofty. 
B. Qalem tenera (Schaeff.) Fr. (No. 187). On horse-dung, KangarlUa. 
