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(12-20 c.m. long) ; gills adnexed, receding from the stem, distant, 
white. Spores 8 x 4 /x. 
On the ground. W. Australia. Victoria. Tasmania. Queens- 
land. 
var. superbicus. Berk. Hook. Journ., 1845. 
Pilens (l|-3 in. broad), brown, stem (1-6 in, high, £ in. 
thick), clad at the base with a velvety meal ; gills adnate, yellowish, 
then orange when dry. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
79. Agaricus (Collybia) eradicatus. Kalch. Grev. vm., p. 
151. 
Resembling A. radicatus in size and habit ; stem erect, long, 
sulcate, but not rooting, nor thickened at the base (possibly an 
accidental variety). 
On the ground. N.S. Wales. Victoria. 
80. Agaricus (Collybia) longipes. Bull. Champ, t. 232. Fr. 
llym. Bur. 110. Cooke lllus. t. 201. 
Pileus fleshy, tbin, conical, then expanded, umbonate, dry, 
slightly velvety (4-7 c.m. broad), brown ; stem stalled, tall, 
attenuated upwards, villose, at length sulcate (10-15 c.m. long) ; 
root long, fusiform ; gills rounded behind, rather distant, white. 
On old stumps, etc. Victoria. 
81. Agaricus (Collybia) fusipes. Bull. Champ, t. 106. Fr. 
llym. Fur. 111. Cooke lllus. t. 141. 
Csespitose, tough ; pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, 
even, or rimose, dull vinous brown, umbo evanescent (l^in. or 
more broad) ; stem stuffed, then hollow, contorted, swollen, sulcate, 
fusiform and rooting (2-6 in. long, 1-1 in. thick) ; gills adnexed, 
nearly free, at length separating behind, broad, distant, connected 
by veins, white, then colour of the pileus. Spores 5 X 4 p. 
On stumps. Locality not indicated. 
82. Agaricus (Collybia) olivaceo-albus. Cke. § Mass. 
Grev. xv., 93. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, at length depressed, 
smooth, slightly rugose, shining, dark sooty olive (2 in. across), 
margin even ; stem nearly equal, smooth, whitish, stuffed, rigid, 
abruptly black below, rooting and attenuated (3 in. long, 5 m.m. 
thick) ; gills very broad (8 m.m.), adnexed, rather distant, plane, 
white; spores elliptic, 14 X 7 fi. 
On ground under Casuarina. Victoria. S. Australia. 
Gills crowded, narrow. 
83. Agaricus (Collybia) butyraceus. Bull. Champ, t. 572. 
Fr. llym. Fur. 113. Cooke lllus. t. 143. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate (2-3 in.), even, 
smooth, moist, changing colour, flesh becoming white ; stem stuffed, 
