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31. Agaricus (Lepiota) naucinus. Fries. Hym. Eur. 34. 
Cooke Ulus. t. 15. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, cuticle thin, entire, or breaking up into 
evanescent granules , somewhat umboriate and smooth in the centre ; 
stem almost hollow, thickened at the base, attenuated upwards, 
fibrillose ; ring large, at length evanescent ; gills approximate, 
whitish. 
In fields. Victoria. 
var. sphserosporus. C. if- M ass. in Grev. xvm., 5. 
Spores globose, 10-12 p. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
32. Agaricus (Lepiota) bubalinus. Berk. Linn. Journ. 
xm., p. 156. Sacc. Syll. No. 243. Grev. t. 181. 
Snowy wiiite ; pileus ovate or somewhat hemispherical, then 
expanded, broadly umbonate (5-6 c.m. broad) ; stem thickened 
downwards, and tomentose (6-8 c.m. long, 1 c.m. thick) ; gills 
narrow. Spores 7-8 X 5 p. 
On cow dung, etc. Victoria. West Australia. 
33. Agaricus (Lepiota) cheimonoceps. Berk, Curt. 
Cuban Fungi, p. 283. Sacc. Syll. No. 236. 
Snowy white ; pileus thin, pulverulent, here and there appen- 
diculate; stem thickened downwards, furfnraceous, rino- torn • 
gills remote, rather broad. Spores subglobose, 8 x 6 p. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
34. Agaricus (Lepiota) leontoderes. Berk. <]• Hr. Ceylon 
Fungi, 499. Sacc. Syll. No. 234. Grev. t. 180, /. B. 
Pileus convex, umbonate, tawny, clad with a few pallid warts ; 
stem attenuated upwards from the truncate base (8 c.m. long, 3-5 
m.m. thick), spotted, stuffed, theu hollow ; ring descending, torn, 
fugacious ; gills broad, rounded behind, approaching the stem,’ 
paler. Spores 8 p. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
35. Agaricus (Lepiota) obclavatus. Cke. <J- Mass. Grev. 
xvi., 30. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then plane, scarcely umbonate, fur- 
furaceous, rulous with a tawny tinge, disc darker, flesh reddish 
(1 in. diam.) ; stem slender, cylindrical, fistulose, abruptly thickened 
and bulbous at the base (3-4 in. long, i in. thick at the base), 
smooth, flesh-colour, darker below ; ring thin, fugacious ; gills 
crowded, narrow, free, white. Spores elliptical, hyaline, 10-12 x 6p. 
On charred ground under Eucalyptus. Victoria. 
36. Agaricus (Lepiota) licmophorus. B. ( j- Br. Linn. 
Journ. xi., 50. 
Pileus lemon-coloured, membranaceous, 1 in. diam., deeply 
plicato-sulcate up to the disc ; margin crenate ; stem attenuated 
upwards, fistulose (3^ in. long, 1 line thick), truncate at the base ; 
