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50. Agaricus (Tricholoma) muculentus. Berk. Hook. 
Journ., 1845, p. 43. 
Cajspitose, pileus convex, rather fleshy, glutinous, umbonate, 
smooth, whitish (1-H in. broad), stem nearly equal, solid, viscid 
(l-ll i n , high, 1^-2 lines thick), gills thin, distant, ventricose, 
rounded, attenuated into a tooth, remote from the stem, edge 
entire ; spores subglobose, 5-6 p diam. 
Amongst moss. W. Australia, 
** Gills becoming discoloured, usually with reddish spots. 
51. Agaricus (Tricholoma) coarctatus. Cke. Mass. 
Grev. xvin., 2. 
Cfespitose, pressed together and deformed. Pileus fleshy, con- 
vex then plane, obtuse, viscid, tan coloured (1-3 in. diam.), when 
dry cracked ; margin even ; stein solid (1| in. long, 1-1- in. thick), 
bulbous and rooting ; gills rather crowded, broad, sinuately ad- 
nexed, ventricose, white, tinged with red. Spores elliptical, 6 X 3 p. 
On sandy soil. Victoria, (Pig. 5.) 
b. Genuina. Cuticle of the pileus never viscid, but lacerated in 
scaly jlocci or in fibrils. 
* Gills not changing colour, nor spotted with red or black. 
52. Agaricus (Tricholoma) rutilans. Schceff. Icon. t. 219. 
Cooke Ulus. t. 89. Fr. Hym. Fur. 53. 
Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then expanded (2-4 in. broad), dry, 
variegated, as well as the somewhat hollow, soft, ventricose stem, 
with purplish down (2£-3J in. high, | in. thick); gills rounded, 
crowded, yellow ; edge thickened, villous, odour strong, taste bitter. 
Spores 7x8/i. 
On pine stumps. 
c. Eigida. Cuticle of the pileus rigid, punctate-granulate, or in 
drying broken into smooth squamules. 
53. Agaricus (Tricholoma) cuneifolius. Fr. Hym. Eur. 61. 
Cooke lllus. t. 526. 
Very brittle; pileus fuscous or livid, rather fleshy, convex, then 
plane, dry (1 in.), smooth, but soon cracked; stem hollow, 
attenuated downwards, white, prninose above; gills thin, crowded, 
white, broad in front, obliquely truncate, attenuated behind, with 
a decurrent tooth. 
In pastures. Victoria. 
d. Serioella. Pileus rather thin, at first silky, soon smooth and 
quite dry. 
* Gills broad, rather thick, and somewhat distant. Smell unpleasant. 
54. Agaricus (Tricholoma) sulphureus. Bull. Champ, t. 
168. Fr. Hym. Eur. 63. Cooke lllus. t. 62. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded (1-2 in. broad), rather 
umbonate, unequal, at first slightly silky, then smooth and even, 
