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149. Agaricus (Fleurotus) Gardneri. Berk. Hook. Journ. 
1840, p. 427. Sacc. Syll. 1369. 
Pileus between fleshy and leathery, rather infundibuliform, 
smooth, yellow (2^ in. diam.) ; gills very decurrent, paler; stem 
short, leathery, smooth, becoming grey (1 in. long, i in. thick). 
Phosphorescent. 
On petioles and half putrid fronds of palms. Queensland. 
150. Agaricus (Fleurotus) illuminans. Mull. Linn. Journ. 
xiii., 157. Sacc. Syll. 1870. 
Phosphorescent. Pileus smooth, tawny (2 in. diam,), stem 
thick ; gills broad, thick, decurrent. 
On dead wood. Victoria. N.S. Wales. Queensland. 
151. Agaricus (Pleurotus) luteo-aurantius. Kalch. Grev. 
151, t. 142,/. 5. Sacc. Syll. 1386. 
Pileus rather fleshy, orbicular, convex, obtuse, even, naked, 
orange-yellow (1 c.m. broad) ; stem fistulose, thin, short, tough, 
curved upwards, even, pulverulent, rufous, clad with mealy white 
flocci (1-2 c.m. long, 1 m.m. thick) at the swollen base ; gills 
adnate, decurrent, scarcely crowded, rather broad, gilvous (colour 
of spores uncertain). 
On wood. N.S. Wales. 
Veil none ; gills very decurrent. Pileus lateral, sessile or 
extended behind into a stem-like, short oblique base. 
152. Agaricus (Pleurotus) ostreatus. Jacq. Austr. t. 288. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 173. Cooke Illus. t. 195. 
Pileus soft, fleshy, sub- dimidiate, conchale , ascending, growing 
pale ; stem abbreviated (or obsolete), firm, elastic, strigose at the 
base ; gills decurrent, rather distant, anastomosing behind, 
whitish. Spores 10-11x4 p. 
On trees. Esculent. Victoria. N.S. Wales. 
153. Agaricus (Pleurotus) polyphemus. C. <} M. Grev. 
xvi., 72.=Agaricus polychromus, Cke. Mass. Grev. xvx., 31. 
Pileus fleshy, infundibuliform, ochraceous white, at length 
sulphur coloured, spotted with purple or sooty spots, smooth, even 
(3-4 in. diam.) ; stem rather excentric, solid, short, attenuated 
below, whitish (1 in. long, £ in. thick) ; gills decurrent, rather 
crowded, arcuate, attenuated at each end, narrow, whitish. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. 
154. Agaricus (Pleurotus) nidiformis. Berk, in Hook. 
Journ. hi., 185. Sacc. Syll. 1396. 
Very large. Pileus fleshy, cup-shaped, smooth, rufous, margin 
lobed and torn, thin, acute ; stem central, short, compressed, 
irregular, firm, smooth, gills decurrent to the base of the stem, 
broad, distant, here and there branched, ochraceous, interstices 
quite smooth or reticulate. 
On the ground. Swan Kiver. 
