AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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externally cartilaginous, conical, striate ; reddish brown (2-3 in. 
long, from ^-1 in. thick at the base); gills nearly free, crowded, 
crenulate, white. Spores 5 x 3 p. 
In woods. Victoria. 
84. Agaricus (Collybia) xylophilus. Weinm. in Linn, x., 54. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 114. Cooke Ulus. t. 202. 
Casspitose. Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate , lax, then ex- 
panded (3 in. broad), broadly, gibbous, smooth, whitish, or clay- 
colour in the centre ; stem hollow, equal, rather flexnous, fibrillose- 
striate, whitish (4-6 c.m. long, 3 m.tn. thick), brownish within ; 
gills adnate, narrow, much crowded, white. Spores minute. 
4 x 3)i. 
On stumps. Victoria. 
b- Vestifedes. Stem thin, equal, Jistulose, or medullate, even, 
velvety, Jioccose or pruinose. 
Gills broad, rather distant. 
85. Agaricus (Collybia) velutipes. Curt. Flor. Lond. t. 7 0. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 115. Cooke Illus. t. 184a. 
Cicspitose. Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, obtuse, 
smooth, viscid (3-6 c.m. broad, tawny yellow) ; stem stuffed, velvety, 
rooting, dark-buy ; gills adnexed, distant, yellowish. Spores 
10x5/1. 
On logs and trunks of trees. Victoria. 
86. Agaricus (Collybia) lepidopus. Fr. PI. Preiss. 131. 
Sacc. Syll. 831. 
Pileus rather fleshy ; convex plane, even, smooth, orange ; stem 
fistulose, equal, of the same colour, rough with scales ; gills 
adnate, white. 
On the ground. W. Australia. 
87. Agaricus (Collybia) morulus. Berk. FI. Tasm. t. 181, 
f. 1, Sacc. Syll. 808. 
Purple red ; pileus convex, fleshy (25 m.m. broad), stem equal, 
stuffed, horizontal, rough (1 c.m. long), gills plane, broad, adnate, 
distant. Spores 5 x 3 p. 
On dead wood. Victoria. Tasmania. 
88. Agaricus (Collybia) tuberosus. Bull. Champ, t. 256. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 119. Cooke Illus. t. 144 a. 
White ; pileus slightly fleshy, convex, then expanded (1-2^ c.m. 
broad), umbanate, smooth, even; stem sub-fistulose, obsoletely 
pulverulent (3-5 c.m. long) ; root smooth, springing from a 
eclerotioid tuber, somewhat yellowish ; gills adnate, crowded, 
slender, white. Spores 3x2/4. 
On dead ltussulce, etc., and on the ground. Queensland. 
