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minutely warted, becoming smooth, equal, with a tuberous root, 
ring broad, deflexed ; gills broad, ventricose, attenuated behind. 
Spores 14 X 8 /i, sometimes 16 X 10 p. 
On the ground in scorched places. N.S. Wales. 
26. Agaricus (Lepiota) stenophyllus. Cke. <J- Mass. Grev. 
xv., 98, xix., pi. 179, /. B. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, hemispherical, then plane, the brownish cuticle 
broken into depressed scales, margin incurved (about 1^ in. broad). 
Stem long (5 in. long, ^ in. thick above, twice as thick at the 
base), bulbous, fistulose, smooth, whitish ; superior ring deci- 
duous. Gills linear, free, very narrow, white. Spores elliptical, 
12 X 7-8 p. 
On the ground. Mount Wellington. Queensland. 
27. Agaricns (Lepiota) subclypeolarius. Berk. <$• Curt., 
Journ. Linn. Soc. x., 283. Sacc. Syll. No. 237. Grev. xix., 
pi. 180 .Jig. A. 
Pileus oval, then plane, thin, radiately striate, floccose squamose, 
white, umbo dusky ; stem nearly equal, smooth, white, with a 
median ring; gills distant, free, remote from the stem. Spores 
elliptical, 8 p long. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
28. Agaricns (Lepiota) fimetarius. Cke. ft Mass. Grev. 
xviii., 1. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate, obtusely umbonate (§-f in. 
broad), pallid, floccose, ornamented with darker adnate floccose 
scales. Stem (1-2 in. long) slender, nearly equal, squamulose 
below ; ring fugacious ; gills free, lanceolate, crowded, white. 
Spores ovate, apiculate, 7 X 5 p. 
On dung. Queensland. 
29. Agaricus (Lepiota) cristatus. Alb. 4’ Schw. Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 33. Cooke lllus. t. 29. 
Pileus slightly fleshy, rather obtuse, white, cuticle at first con- 
tinuous, naked, then broken into subgranulose evanescent rufous 
scales (2-5 c.m. broad). Stem fistulose, slender, even, equal (4-5 
c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick) ; ring entire, evanescent ; gills free, at 
length remote. Spores 7x4 p. 
In fields, lawns, etc. Victoria. Tasmania. 
c. Annulosi. Ring superior, fixed, subpersistent. Universal veil 
adnate to the pileus. 
30. Agaricns (Lepiota) rliizobolus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 
(1845), p. 42. Sacc. Sgll. No. 119. 
Pileus convex, fleshy, shining, white, centre ornamented with 
pyramidal wart-like scales ; veil marginal ; stem smooth, short, 
bulbous ; gills rather broad, free. 
On the ground. West Australia. 
