OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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On wood, fallen sticks, etc. 
Pileus jin. or more. 
Stem velvety, I darkish, Jin. 
Pileus about lin., burnt umber, drying to 
walnut brown. Gills adnate to sub- 
decurrent, light cinnamon drab. Smell 
foetid 
Stem densely villose or short hairy, greyish 
brown. 
Pileus about fin., sayal brown. Gills 
adnate, glaucous brown 
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 
Stem pruinose to granular, whole plant light 
pinkish cinnamon to colour of dead grass. 
Pileus l to jin., umbilicate. Stem j to' 
jin. On fallen sticks, etc 
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, liair-like. 
Sterile mycelium like horse-hair . . 
Pileus alveolar, honey-coloured. 
Gills 6 to 10, adnate. Stem short, dark 
brown below 
Attached to buried grass stems. 
Pileus jin., with adpressed fibrils, colour of dead 
grass. Stem densely pilose, concolorous . . 
256. M. foetid'us. 
257. M. australieiisis. 
254. M. einnamoneus. 
258. M. ramealis. 
259. M. equicrrn-is. 
260. Androsaoeus 
alveolaris. 
261. Crinipellis 
oauUcivalis. 
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. 
* S'.en. naked at the base. 
253. Marasmius oreades (Bolt.) Fr. (Gr., oreias, belonging to mountains). — 
Pileus 11 in. (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 3in. (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 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, 
6. Stem rooting, distinctly cartilaginous. Gills separating-free. 
*Stem woolly downwards, smooth upwards. 
No South Australian species recorded. 
