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rather firm, cup-shaped, resupinate, then reflexed, somewhat 
striate, subpruinose, villous at the base; gills loose, paler. 
On dead fallen branches. Victoria. Queensland. W. Aus- 
tralia. Tasmania. 
181. Agaricus (Pleurotus) lenticula. Kalch. Grev. vin., 
p. 151, t. 142,/. 3. Sacc. Syll. 1506. 
Small. Aduate by the back, orbicular, plane (1-3 m.m. diam.), 
almost naked, olive brown or powdered with white ; gills linear, 
simple, crowded, concurrent in a somewhat excentric point, olive- 
tawny. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
182. Agaricus (Pleurotus) Tasmanicus. Ber/c. FI. Tasm . 
ii., 245. Sacc. Syll. 1510. 
Pileus reniform, even, smooth (l|-3 c.m. broad), invested with 
a gelatinous pellicle ; stem very short, tomentose or obsolete ; 
gills broad, rather distant, thin. 
On rotten wood. Tasmania. 
183. Agaricus (Pleurotus) diversipes. Berk. FI. Tasm. t. 
181,/. 4. Sacc. Syll. 1511. 
Pileus umbilicate or lateral, pellucid, invested with a gelatinous 
stratum (4 c.m. or more broad), stem somewhat cartilaginous, 
compressed, hollow, elongated (2-3 c.m. long), short or obsolete ; 
gills distant, decurrent, interstices even. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. Tasmania. 
184. Agaricus (Pleurotus) striatulus. Fr.Icon. t. 89, / 5. 
Sacc. Syll. 1518. Cooke Ulus. t. 2125. 
Pale cinereous. Pileus very delicate, striate, flaccid, smooth (4-7 
m.m. broad) ; gills few, distant. 
On firwood twigs. Queensland. 
185. Agaricus (Pleurotus) subbarbatus. B. C. Linn. 
Journ. x., 288, xi., 525. Sacc. Syll. 1522. 
Dark brown. Pileus flabelliform, delicately hisped, finely striate 
(8 m.m.), margin undulate ; stem none ; gills of the same colour, 
narrow. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. 
186. Agaricus (Pleurotus) perpusillus. hr. Hym. Eur. 181. 
FI. Dan. t. 1295, /. 1. Sacc. Syll. 1523. 
White. Pileus tough, resupinate, then reflexed, even, smooth 
(4-7 m.m. diam.) ; gills few, broad. 
On trunks and branches. W. Australia. 
187. Agaricus (Pleurotus) chioneus. Pers. M. E. hi., t. 
26,/. 10-11. Sacc. Syll. 1527. Cooke Il.lus. t. 21 2d. 
Snow-white, subresupinate, minute ; pileus very thin, villous (1- 
4 m.m. broad) ; gills rather broad ; stem very short, villous, at 
length obsolete. 
On wood or dung. W. Australia. Victoria. 
