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ring about half-way up ; gills distant, slightly arched, remote, 
interstices veined. 
On ground. Victoria. 
37. Agaricus (Lepiota) cepaestipes. Sow. Fr. Hym. Eur. 35. 
Cooke Ulus. t. 5. 
Pileus submenibranaceous, ovate, then expanded, mealy and 
squamose with evanescent plumose scales, disc fleshy, and broadly 
umbonate (1-3 in. broad), margin plicate ; stem hollow, 
floccose, thickest in the middle or at the base (3-6 inches high), 
ring evanescent ; gills at length remote. Spores 6 X 5 p. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
var. cretaceus. Bull. Cooke Illus. t. 942. 
Pileus chalky white, with darker scales. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
d. Granulosi. Universal veil of the pileus and stem at first 
continuous, by rupture forming an inferior ring. 
38. Agaricus (Lepiota) granulosus. Batsch. Fr. Hym. Fur. 
36. Cooke Ulus. t. 18. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, soft, tawny, mealy with 
innate granules (3 c.m. broad), stem stuffed, then hollow, nearly 
equal, floccoso-squamose below the ring (4-7 c.m. long, 4 m.m. 
thick) ; gills crowded, reaching the stem, or free, white. Spores 
5x3/i. 
In woods and on heaths. Victoria. Queensland. 
39. Agaricus (Lepiota) aspratus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1847, 
p. 481. Sacc. Syll. No. 150. 
Pileus hemispherical, at length depressed, pallid yellow, often 
deep orange, rough with warts composed of fasciculate flocci (2-4 
c.m. broad) ; stem nearly equal, floccosely scaly (2 c.m. long, 2 
m.m. thick) ; gills adnexed, white. Spores 8-10 p long. Agaricus 
( Lepiota ) echinodermatus, Cke. & Mass. Grev. xvi., 30. 
On the ground, or on trunks. N.S. Wales. Queensland. 
New Caledonia. 
e. Mksomori’hi. Small, slender ; stem fistulose ; pileus dry ; 
cuticle entire. 
40. Agaricus (Lepiota) niesomorphus. Dull. Fr. Hym. Eur. 
38. Cooke Illus. t. 85, B. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate (2-3 c.m. broad), tawny; 
stem fistulose, short, thin (2-3 c.m. long), even and smooth as well 
as the pileus ; ring erect, persistent ; gills free, ventricose, white. 
Spores 5-6 x 3 p. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
41. Agaricus (Lepiota) rhyparophorus. Berk, Br. Ceylon 
Fungi p. 500. Sacc. Syll. No. 402. 
Small ; pileus convex, somewhat umbonate sulcate-striate, white 
(2 c.m. broad), marked with brownish spots ; stem clavate (2-3 
