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‘“'“'Gills decurrent. 
TUBARIA W.G.Sm. 
(L., tub, a, a trumpet.) 
‘‘I'ileus fleshy or ut$Siibranneeous ; margin incurved. Stem central, cartilaginous. 
Gills decurrent or broadly adnate. Spores ocliraceous, ferruginous or rarely 
fuscous; elliptical, pip-sliaped or almond-shaped ; smooth, continuous. Cystidia 
present. Growing on the ground or on wood.’’ — Rea. 
The species are characterised by the brown spores, central cartilaginous stem, 
decurrent gills and incurved margin. The number of species is small, and in 
South Australia only one or two have been recognised, small brown plants 
growing amongst grass or moss. 
191. Tubaria furfuracea (Pers.) W.G.Sm. (L,, furfuraccus, scurfy). — I’ileus 
1 to jin. (ti to 12 mm.), convex, usually imbilicate, sometimes striate when moist, 
faintly sulcate round the edge, tibvillose-nnitt to velvety, markedly hygrophauous, 
Sayul Brown to Snuff Brown (xxtx.), pallid brownish when dry. Gills adnate 
lo decurrent, moderately distant, deep Snuff Brown. Stem up to tin. (2.5 cm.), 
slender, mealv-fibrillose, rather shaggy below, cartilaginous, tough, slightly 
hollow, colour of the pileus. Spores oblique, dull brown, 7.5 to 9 x 4.2 to 5.2 y. 
Single oil the ground or amongst moss or grass. South Australia — Stonyfell 
(near Adelaide); Mount Lofty; amongst moss, etc., Mount Wedge, 20 miles 
north of Elliston, E.P. ; Piimaroo; MacDonnell Bay (S.E.). April, May, June, 
A ugust. 
192. Tubaria furfuracea (Pers.) W.G.Sm. vur. trigonophylla (Lasch.) FT. 
(Or., triffOHo. s, triangular; phyllon, a leaf). — Pileus and decurrent gills forming 
a double cone, in small plants jin. ((i mm.) broad and a little more high. 
Pileus jin. to tin. (6 to 25 mm.), convex, sometimes blunt at the apex, then 
nearly plane, usually becoming umbilicate, edge striate and rugose and inturned 
when young, surface dull to tomentose, hygrophauous, near Warm Sepia (xxix.), 
near Hazel (xv.) or tunny brown, drying near Sayul Brown (xxix.) or pallid, 
edge sometimes scorched-looking. Gills triangular, slightly to very deeply 
decurrent, moderately close to rather distant, near Sayul Brown (xxtx.), paler 
than the pileus. Stem 1 to ljin. (2.5 to 4.M cm.), slender, finely floceulose, 
fibrillose tomentose or striate, sometimes twisted, hollow, rather cartilaginous, 
near Sayul Brown (xxix.) or near Hazel (xV. ), slightly whitish at the base. 
Spores obliquely elliptical, pale or dull brown, 8 to 9.5 x 4.5 to hi y. Amongst 
grass or moss in sandy soil. South Australia — Monarto South, Encounter Bay. 
Piimaroo. May, July, August. 
({■ Pilous confluent with the excentric or lateral stem, dimidiate, sessile or 
resupinate. 
CREPIDOTUS Fr. 
(Gr., hrepis, a man’s boot; ouu, an ear.) 
‘‘Pileus fleshy, excentric, lateral or resupinate. Stem lateral or none. Gills 
more or less decurrent or radiating from a central point. Spores ocliraceous, 
ferruginous or fuscous; elliptical, subglobose, oval or fusiform; smooth, granular, 
verrucose or echinulate; continuous. Cystidia present. Growing on wood, rarely 
on the ground. ’ ’ — Rea. 
The species of Crcpiilo'tuu are characterised by the brown spores and by the 
stem being excentric, lateral or absent. They grow on wood, frequently in shelf- 
form and sometimes over-lapping (imbricate) when the support is upright. The 
shelf form is naturally most pronounced when the stem is absent or is lateral and 
very short. T'wrt of our species are common in the Mount Lofty Ranges growing- 
on the old outer bark of species of living Eucalyptus trees. One of these is 
often found also on fallen wood and strips of stringy -bark and has even been 
found on rotting bagging. One species ( globiyeivs), occurring on dead trunks, 
is when fresh almost altogether whitish and may be mistaken for Plcurotus unless 
it is noticed that the gills have a faint brownish tint; a spores print on white 
paper or a microscopic examination at once however shows the brown colour of 
the spores. Four species have so far been found in this State. They appear to 
be of no economic importance. 
