AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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dirty yellow ; stem stuffed, nearly equal, slightly striate (2 in. or 
more high, 4 lines thick) ; gills distant, arcuato-affixed, sulphur- 
coloured as well as the stem, odour disagreeable ; spores 7 X 4 p . 
In woods. W. Australia. 
** Gills thin, crowded, narrow ; small, inodorous. 
55. Agaricus (Tricholoma) cerinus. Per 8 . Syn. 321. Fries 
Hym. Fur. 64. Cooke Illus. t. 95, B. 
Pileus fleshy, convexo-plane, brown or yellow, obtuse or de- 
pressed (3-4 c. in. broad), becoming smooth, even, stem stuffed, fibril- 
loso-striate, base smooth (4-5 c.m. long) ; gills adnate, retreating, 
crowded, yellow. 
On lawns, etc. Victoria. 
*%* Gills becoming discoloured. 
56. Agaricus (Tricholoma) civilis. Fr. Hym. Fur. 71. 
Fries Icon. t. 42,/. 1. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, convex, then plane, smooth, moist, ash- 
coloured, becoming pallid (8 c.m. broad) ; cuticle separable ; stem 
solid, soft, fragile, fibrillose or squamulose, whitish (5-6 c.m. long, 
1-li c.m. thick) ; gills deeply emarginate, crowded, white then 
yellowish, not spotted. 
In pine woods. Victoria. Queensland. 
57. Agaricus (Tricholoma) nudus. Bull. Champ !. 439. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 79. Cooke Illus. t. 67. 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex then expanded and depressed 
(2 in. broad), obtuse, smooth, moist, changing colour; margin in- 
flexed, thin, naked ; stem stuffed, elastic, equal, rather mealy (2 in. 
high, 3-4 lines thick) ; gills rounded behind or slightly decurrent, 
crowded, narrow, violet, stained when old with mMhs/i-brown ; 
spores 7-8 x 3-4 p. 
In woods, plantations, etc., amongst dead leaves. Esculent. 
Victoria. W. Australia. Tasmania. 
e. Hygrophani. Pileus thin, regular umbonate, flesh at length soft, 
hygrophanous. 
* Gills whitish, not spotted. 
58. Agaricus (Tricholoma) melaleucus. P. Fr. Hym. Fur. 
74. Cooke Illus. t. 119. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then expanded, obsoletely umbonate 
(lf-3 in. broad), smooth, moist, changing colour, dingy black, then 
livid brown, pale when dry ; stem stuffed, thin, elastic, somewhat 
smooth, whitish, sprinkled with a few fibrils, thickened at the base 
(2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick) ; gills emarginate, adnexed, ventri- 
cose, crowded, white ; spores 10x5 p. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
