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what ascending, fibrillose, pallid (1-2 in. long, 1-1-| lines thick), 
gills adnate, then decurrent, crowded, narrow, white, then dingy. 
In pine woods and on trunks. Queensland. 
e. Orbiformks. Pileus hygrophanoua, convex, then flattened or 
depressed , gills plane, adnate. Pileus bright and self-coloured. 
75. Agaricus (Clitocybe) laccatus. Scop. Cam. p. 444. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 108. Cooke Plus. t. 139. 
Pileus membranaceous, red, brown or amethyst, convex, then 
depressed, and somewhat umbilicate, variable, hygrophanous, mealy 
(2-5 c.m. broad), stem stuffed, equal, tough, fibrous (2-10 c.m. 
long, 5 m.m. thick), colour of the pileus ; gills adnate, thick, 
distant , brightly coloured , at length mealy. Spores globose, 
echinulate, 8-9 u.— Laccaria laccatus, Berk, in Grev. xii., p. 70. 
In woods. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. Tasmania. 
76. Agaricus (Clitocybe) canaliculata. Cke. S' Mass. 
Grev. xviii., p. 2. 
Pileus somewhat membranaceous (1 in. diam), at length umbili- 
cate, velvety, with radiating channels, bright tawny ; margin thin 
and crenulate ; stein equal, longitudinally fibrillose, tough, at 
length fistnlose, paler; gills adnate, broad, rather distant, flesh 
coloured, pruinose with white spores. Spores globose, verrucose, 
9-10 p diam. 
Under Casuarina trees. Queensland. 
77. Agaricus (Clitocybe) laccatinus. Berk. Linn. Journ. 
xviii., p. 383. Sacc. Syll. 807. 
Csespitose ; pileus plano-convex, pallid fleshy red, smooth 
(1-1-^ c.m.), margin sulcate ; stem paler, fibrillose (1-2 c.m. long), 
gills thick, few of the same colour, adnate. 
On dead wood. Queensland. New Zealand. 
These three species of Orbiformes belong to Berkeley’s proposed 
genus Laccaria. 
Sub-Genus. 8. COLLYBIA, Fr. 
Stem cartilaginous. Pileus not sulcato-plicate, nor wrinkled ; 
margin at first involute. Gills free or only obtusely adnexed 
behind. 
* Gills white or brightly coloured , not cinereous. 
a - Stiu.ei'f.de.s. Stem stiff, hollow, or with a spongy pith, sulcate 
or striate. 
78. Agaricus (Collybia) radicatus. llelh. Fr. Hym. Fur. 
109. Cooke Illus. t. 140. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, gibbous, rugose, glutinous 
(6-8 c.m. broad) ; stems tuffed, elongated, attenuated upwards, 
ri gid, smooth, at length sulcate, with a long tapering rooting base 
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