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HANDHOOK OF 
hollow, ring broad, deflexed and torn ; gills broad, ventricose, 
very remote. Spores 10 x G-7 p. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
21. Agaricus (Lepiota) lepidophorus. Berk, Br. Ceylon 
Fungi, p. 4 98. Sacc. Syll. No. 170. 
Pileus campanulate, papillately umbonate, then plane (2§-3 c.m. 
broad), rather fleshy, obtuse, white, sprinkled with minute reddish 
scales, stem attenuated upwards (4 c.m. long, 2 c.m. thick), 
stuffed, ring movable ; gills ventricose, approximating to the stem, 
lemon-yellow. Spores 8 p long. 
On the ground. N.S. Wales. 
22. Agaricus (Lepiota) rhytipelta. Miiell. Linn. Soc.,. 
N.S. IV., Ie82, p. 104. 
Pileus fleshy, ovate-campanulate (1-1 in. diam.), at first umber, 
smooth at the nmbo, then around the periphery breaking up into 
thick scales, otherwise silky-striate and white; stem nearly equal 
(3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick), dilated and rather bulbous at 
the base, smooth, white, turning brownish downwards ; ring 
movable, membranaceous, persistent; gills ventricose, broad, 
rather crowded. 
On the ground. Lake Muir, Muellersville, and Western Port. 
23. Agaricus (Lepiota) ochrophyllus. Cke. Mass. Grev - 
xviii., 2, pi. 178. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, pale ochre, varie- 
gated with darker concentrical innate scales (4-6 in, broad), margin 
faintly striate; stem solid, erect, smooth, at length striate, fibril- 
lose (7 in. long, 1 in. thick), bulbous and turbinate at the base, of 
the same colour ; ring superior, pendulous, sometimes double ; 
gills broad, attenuated behind, free, rather crowded, ochraceous.. 
Spores elliptical, 12 X 8 p. 
On sandy ground. Queensland. 
b. Clypkoi.aiui. Ring fixed, homogeneous, with universal veil 
clothing the stem. 
24. Agaricus (Lepiota) clypeolarius. Bull. Fr. Hym. Fur . 
32. tke. Ulus. t. 38. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, umbonate, at first with an even crust, at length 
broken into floccose adpressed scales (3-4 c.m. broad); variable 
in colour, white, yellow, pink, rufous, brown, etc. ; stem fistu- 
lose, thin, almost equal (5-7 c.m. long, 2-3 m.m. thick) ; ring 
evanescent, floccoso-squamose ; gills free, approximate. Spores 
6x4 p. 
In woods and hot-liouses. Queensland. Victoria. 
25. Agaricus (Lepiota) Beckleri. Berle. Linn. Journ. xni., 
p. 156. Grev. xix., pi. 179, fig. A. 
Pileus subglobose or campanulate, umbonate, spongy, tomen- 
tose, rough about the apex with little scales ; stem long, very 
