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THE LARGER FUNGI 
A sterile form was found at Beaumont in May at the same time as fertile 
specimens and at first suggjjtited a (latent ; the pilous and gills were yellowish 
brown from the absence of spores. 
Beil gives the spore measurements as 10 to 12 x 8 to 9 n and describes the 
stem as pallid. 
251. Coprinus virgulicolens Clel. (L., virffuU, a little twig; colons, dwelling). — 
At first cylindrical with a rounded summit, mealy granulose in the centre, finely 
striate with a few glistening particles, biscuity-eoloured. Then cylindrical- 
conical to broadly conical, finally expanding, -1 to lin. (1.2 to 2.5 cm.) in diameter 
and up to fin. (16 mm.) high, membranous, with a smooth slightly rounded 
fuscous brown disc at first pallid, the periphery closely striate-plicate with 
scattered pallid scurfy granules, dark livid or greyish brown. Gills just reaching 
the stem to adnate, ascending at first, close, narrow, whitish, finally dark purplish 
brown. Stem J 1 to 2-iin. (3.7 to 6.2 cm.), at first mealy and striate, then smooth, 
hollow, with a small bulb at the base and some radiating fibrils, white. Flesh 
very thin, brownish. Spores Oblique, One end truncate, dark bronzy or fuscous 
brown, 7.5 to 9, occasionally 11 x 4 to a p On the ground amongst leaf mould 
attached to rotting twigs. South Australia — Mount Lofty. May, June. 
Characterised by a membranaceous plicate pilous with some scurfy granules 
and a slightly raised brown disc, purplish-brown narrow gills, a white stem with 
a small bulb, spores which are dark fuscous brown, and the attachment to rotting 
twigs (to which the specific name refers). 
****Pileus always smooth. Ringless. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
C. Spores black. With a volva, the stem expanding above to form a flat 
disc from whose edge the gills radiate without a covering cuticle, 
receptacle becoming rigid and friable. 
MONTAG'NITES Fr. 
(After Montague, the French Mycologist.) 
Universal veil forming a volva, persistent. Stem dilated at the apex into an 
orbicular disc, smooth on both sides, to whose margin the free gills are attached. 
Gills i adiating, sickle-shaped, persistent, with obtuse edges, without a covering 
cuticle. I rama cellular. Spores oblong, smooth, black-fuscous, basidia 
tetrasporous. 
, 252- Montagnites Candollei Fr. (Probably after Alphonse de Candolle, the 
Swiss Botanist). Pilous, formed by the expanded disc-like apex of the stem and 
the gills radiating from its periphery, $ to lin. (1.2 to 2.5 cm.), occasionally 
more, irregularly globose, or flattened on top with convex sides, or convex with 
an umibonate disc, at first deeply inturne.l below towards the stem, as though 
tucked in, leaving a space - or 3 mm. wide between the inturned edge and the 
stem, covered by the greyish to dirty whitish universal veil through which shows 
the ribbing of the gills. Gills to 3 mm. wide, very close like the leaves of a 
book, attached along the periphery of the disc and at first covered by the delicate 
universal veil, surfaces slightly wrinkled, carbonaceous; on old plants, the gills 
tend to expand outwards and become ragged. Stem 1 to 2 jin. (2.5 to 7.6 cm.), 
3 to 7 mm. thick, equal or attenuated upwards or slightly so downwards, deeply 
rugose tending to break into broad rugose scales, ascending to the summit of 
the pilous and there expanding into a thin disc up to 8 mm. wide, to whose 
periphery the gills are attached, fleshy firm, hollow, white, flesh white, base 
bulbous with a marked sheathing volva, sometimes supplemented internally by 
upwardly-directed broad scales from the base of the stem. Emerging from the 
•soil, not subterranean Spores elliptical, irregularly elliptical or sometimes 
obovate black 15 to 24 x 9.5 to 13 g. Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges and 
near Echo Hill. August. 
