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grey or tinted tan colour, labyriutliiform, cells very minute, up to 0.5 mm. long, 
very numerous, dissejiiments very thin, whole gleha crumbling readily when cut. 
Spo7’es smooth, tinted yellow, almost hyaline, subgloboso to obovate, shortly 
pedicellate, 5 to cS g, epispore thick. Solitary on the ground. — Cunningham. The 
plants are fragrant when fresh. South Australia — Under bushes of Acacia 
armata. R. Bi'., Beaumont; Kinehina. New South Wales. Western Australia. 
March to .lune. (Figure 02.) 
4(i3. Secotium melanosporiun Bei-k. (Gr., mela-s, black; spora, seed). — 
Peridium dingy grey, darker above, strongly depressed-globose, deeply- umbilicate, 
base deepl,y excavated, truncate, H to I-in. (3 to 4 cm.) high, up to I'in. (3 cm.) 
wide, finely seabrid and longitudinally- striate; dingy-grey- and minutely- rugulose 
when ilried. Stipe dingy-grey-, up to Ifin. (4 cm.) long, i to iin. (8 to 12 mm.) 
thick, stout, woody, equal, seabiid, centi'al portion coarsel.y- cellular; columella 
strongly thickened" at the apex. Gleba dark sepia-brown, almost black, cellular, 
[PJwto. hy Profe-fisor T. G. B. Osborn. 
Figure 63 . — Secotium melanosyorum Berk. (No. 463). 
Monarto South. 
cells ndnute, up to 0.5 mm. long, laterally- compressed, dissepiments thin, whole 
context tough and resistant. Spoi'cs smooth, seiria-coloured, obovate or less 
commonly elliptical, l)luntlv pointed at one end, rounded at the other, variable 
in size, 5 to 11 x 4 to 6 g; epispore thin. Solitary- on the( ground. — Cunningham. 
South Australia — Monarto South, Halidon. Western Australia. New South 
Wales. Broken Hill. May-, July. (Figure 03.) 
404. Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollos. (Like the Genus Agaricus ). — 
Peridium dingy-grey, ovate, obtusely conical or subglobose, apex obtuse, base 
abruptly rounded or truncate, excavated, up to 3iin. (8 cm.) high and 2in. (5 cm.) 
broad, ‘minutely seabrid and finely longitudinally- striate, margin lacerate, often 
lobed. Stipe very short, almost obsolete, dingy grey, seabrid, stuffed, up to -in. 
(2 cm.) long and Jin. (18 mm.) wide at the base, where it is sometimes much 
inflated; columella thickened at the apex, free throughout. Gleba dark bronze- 
brown, lamellate, lamellae sinuate, margins finely serrate, sparsely anastomosing, 
\ ertically- arranged around the inner wall of the peridium. Spores smooth, 
ferruginous, globose oi' subglobose, 5 to 8 p, sometimes shortly pedicellate ; 
epispore thick. Solitarv on" the ground in open grassy areas. — Cunningham. 
South Australia — Greenl'iill Road. Western Australia. New Zealand. Europe. 
North Africa. North America. April. 
