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slender, short (2-| c.m. long), pubescent below ; gills decurrent, 
distant, equal, fold-like, slightly branched, edge acute ; spores 
6-7 x 4 ix. 
On decayed sticks. Tasmania. 
144. Agaricus (Omplialia) Mullerianus. Berk, in Herb. 
Pileus convex, umbilicate (1 c.m. broad), tawny, smooth ; stem 
elongated, straight, equal, smooth, or longitudinally striate (when 
dry), of the same colour (5-6 c.m. long, 1 m.m. thick) ; gills decur- 
rent, rather broad, distant, whitish. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
Sub-Genus 11. PLEUROTUS. Fr. Epicr. p. 129. 
Veil evanescent, or none ; pileus fleshy ; stem excentric, lateral 
•or wanting ; gills with a sinus or broadly decurrent tooth. 
a. Excentiuci. Pileus entire, laterally extended, excentric, 
not truly lateral ; growing on wood. 
Veil annulate. 
145. Agaricus (Pleurotus) corticatus. Fr. Hym.Eur. 166. 
Sacc. Syll. 1322. Cooke Illus. t. 290. 
Pileus compact, excentric, villous, at length Jloccoso-squamulose 
(7 in. broad) ; stem firm, fibrillose (3 in. long, 1| in. thick) ; veil 
membranaceous, torn ; gills decurrent, subdistant, anastomosing 
behind ; spores 12 X 5 p. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
146. Agaricus (Pleurotus) tephroplianus. Berk. FI. Tasm. 
it., 224. Sacc. Syll. v., 343. 
Pileus excentric, infundibuliform, brown, rivulose, pulverulent ; 
stem hairy, arising from a strigose base j gills broad, emarginate 
behind. 
On burnt wood. Tasmania. 
147. Agaricus (Pleurotus) abbreviatus. Kalch. Grev. vm., 
152, t. 142,/. 7. Sacc. Syll. 1316. 
Wholly rufous. Pileus excentric (2-3 lines broad), convex then 
plane, margin turned in, even, smooth ; stem shorter than the 
diameter of the pileus, a little thickened above or below (2 lines 
long, 1 line thick) ; gills plane, adnate, narrow, crowded. 
On wood. New South Wales. 
148. Agaricus (Pleurotus) laeticolor. Kalch. Grev. vm., 
151, t. 142,/. 4. Sacc. Syll. 1347. 
Pileus rather fleshy, excentric, convex, very obtuse, margin 
turned in, even, smooth (1-1^ C.m. broad), golden yellow; stem 
stuffed, equal, naked (1 c.m. long, 1 m.m. thick) ; gills emarginate, 
adnate, crowded, ventricose, flesh colour (colour of spores unknown). 
On wood (?). N.S. Wales. 
