OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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On wood, fallen sticks, etc. 
Pileus Jin. or more. 
Stem velvety, blackish, Jin. 
Pileus about lin., burnt umber, drying to 
walnut brown. Gills adnate to sub- 
decurrent, light cinnamon drab. Smell 
foetid 256. M. foetidus. 
Stem densely villose or short hairy, greyish 
brown. 
Pileus about fin., sayal brown. Gills 
adnate, glaucous brown 257. M. australiensis. 
Pileus usually J to Jin. 
Stem smooth or slightly velutinate, Vandyke 
brown to blackish, paler above, usually 
about Jin. 
Pileus up to Jin., pinkish cinnamon to 
ochraceous salmon. Gills adnate, creamy 
white. On trunks 254. M. •oinnamoneus. 
Stem pruinose to granular, whole plant light 
pinkish cinnamon to colour of dead grass. 
Pileus i to Jin., umbilicate. Stem J to 
Jin. On fallen sticks, etc 258. M. ramealis. 
Pileus minute, up to Jin. 
Pileus umbilicate with a knob in the centre, 
biscuit-coloured. 
Gills 8 to 11, attached to a collar. Stem 
several inches long, brown, hair -like. 
Sterile mycelium like horse-hair . . . . 259. M. equicrirnAs. 
Pileus alveolar, honey-coloured. 
Gills 6 to 10, adnate. Stem short, dark 
brown below 260. Androsaoeus 
alveolaris. 
Attached to buried grass stems. 
Pileus Jin., with adpressed fibrils, colour of dead 
grass. Stem densely pilose, coneolorous . . . . 261. Crinipems 
oaulieitmtHs. 
A. Margin of pileus incurved at first. Stem cartilaginous. Mycelium 
floccose. 
a. Stem externally villose or pruinose. Gills separating, free. 
*Stem woolly or strigose at the base. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
* stein naked at the base. 
253. Marasmius oreades (Bolt.) Pr. (Gr., oreias, belonging to mountains). — 
Pileus ljin. (3.7 cm.) or larger, pliant, convex, irregular, subumbonate, then 
rather upturned, surface matt, biscuit-coloured. Gills just free, broad, moderately 
distant, creamy white. Stem up to Sin. (7.5 cm.), slender, equal, rather wavy, 
somewhat pruinose (“covered with a villose-woven cuticle”), whitish. Spores 
elliptical, white, 8.5 x 4.2 to 5 fj.. Forming imperfect rings. Edible. New 
South Wales — Moore Park. December. 
The above description of the edible “Fairy Ring Champignon” is from Sydney 
specimens. It has not yet' been recorded from this State but doubtless does occur. 
Its pliant texture, distant free gills and arrangement in rings make it readily 
recognisable. 
b. Stem rooting, distinctly cartilaginous. Gills separatiug-free. 
*Stem woolly downwards, smooth upwards. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
