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155. Agaricus (Fleurotus) lampas. Berk. Hoolc. Journ., 
1845 , p. 44,=Agaricus noctilucus. Berk. Sacc. Syll. 1397. 
Fasciculate, phosphorescent. Pileus central lobed, fleshy, 
smooth, fulvous, turning black (4 in. diam.), margin thin and 
turned in; stem compressed, thickened above, solid, at length 
splitting (2 in. long, $ in. thick), smooth ; gills narrow, quite 
entire, and deeply decurrent. 
On stems of Grevillea. W. Australia. Tasmania. 
156. Agaricus (Pleurotus) candescens. Mull. Linn. 
Jowrn. xiii., 157. Sacc. Syll. 1400. 
Pileus excentric, smooth, white, then becoming dingy (lj-2 in. 
diam.) ; margin inflexed ; stem dilated above, smooth (1 in. 
diam.) ; gills thin, very decnrrent, here and there torn. Strongly 
phosphorescent. 
On dead wood. Victoria. 
157. Agaricus (Pleurotus) phosphoreus. Berk. Hook. 
Journ. vn., 572. Sacc. Syll. 1401. 
Pileus infundibuliform, smooth, pallid, densely cajspitose, stems 
for the most part central, attenuated downwards, rather silky, 
gills rather broad, entire, descending and making lines on the top 
of the stem. 
On roots of trees. Tasmania. 
158. Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 174. 
Cooke Illus. t. 288. Sacc. Syll. 1405. 
Pileus compact, or spongy, rather dimidiate, horizontal, at first 
pulvinate, even, then with the disc depressed, substrigose (10 c.m. 
long) ; stem short, white, tomentose (1-2 c.m.) ; gills decurrent, 
somewhat branched, eroded, distinct at the base, nearly of the 
same colour. 
On trunks. Victoria. N.S. Wales. S. Australia. 
159. Agaricus (Pleurotus) clitocyhoides. C'lce. <f- Mass. 
Grev. xv., 98. 
Pileus convex, depressed, thin, smooth, even, pallid, ochraceous, 
at length becoming reddish (2 in. diam.) ; margin membranaceous, 
faintly striate ; stem ascending, curved, nearly equal, solid, a little 
thickened towards either end, paler, clad with white flocci at the 
base (li-2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick), disc fleshy ; gills crowded, 
thin, very itecurrent, rather narrow, white. Spores elliptical, 
5x2 g. 
On old fern logs. Victoria. 
160. Agaricus (Pleurotus) sulciceps. Cooke <$■ Mass. Grev. 
xviii., 3. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, plane, then infundibuliform, radiately rugose, 
almost sulcate, smooth, sooty-brown, disc darker, rather velvety 
(1-2 in. diam.); margin spreading, crispate, often somewhat lobed ; 
stem thin, hollow, compressed, curved, striate, whitish (1-lf in. 
