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stem solid , slightly attenuated upwards, obtuse at the base (4-6 
c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick) ; gills rather broad, attenuated, adnexed, 
reddish ; spores globose, irregular, 8 p diam. 
In open exposed pastures. Victoria. 
203 . Agaricus (Entoloma) panniculus. Berk. Flor. Tasm. 
t. 181,/. 5. Save. Syll. 2863. 
Pileus thin, campanulate, obtuse, fiocculose, dark violet (30-31 
m.m. diam), as well as the stem, which is thickened downwards, and 
whitish tornentose at the base (6 c.ra. long, 2-3 m.m. thick); gills 
adnate, receding from the stem ; spores subglobose, 12-13 p diam. 
Amongst ferns. Tasmania. 
Sub-Genus 17. CLITOTILUS. Fr. Kpicr. p. 148. 
Stem fleshy or fibrous, attenuated upwards into the pileus, the 
margin of which is at first involute ; hymenophore continuous with 
the stem ; gills equally attenuated behind, and somewhat decurrent, 
not seceding or sinuate. 
204 . Agaricus (Clitopilus) cancrinus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 199. 
Cooke Jllus. t. 501. Sacc. Syll. v., 2900. 
Pileus between fleshy and membranaceous, umbilicate, then 
convex and expanded (2^ c.m. broad), unequal, fiocculose, even, 
flesh-coloured, white, without striaj, growing pale; stem stuffed, 
then fistulose, tough, short, smooth, white (3 c.m. long, 2-4 m.m. 
thick) ; gills decurrent, distant, arcuate, white, then pale flesh- 
colonr. 
In grass fields. Victoria. Queensland. 8. Australia. (Fig. 15). 
Sub- Genus 18. LEPTONIA. Fr. S. M. x., p. 201. 
Stem cartilaginous, tubular (the tube stuffed or hollow), polished, 
rather shining ; pileus thin, umbilicate, or with the disc darker, 
cuticle fibrillose, or breaking up into darker scales, margin at first 
incurved ; gills at first adnexed, or adnate, but readily separating. 
205 . Agaricus (Eeptonia) lampropus. Fr. flym. Eur. 202. 
Cooke Jllus. t. 331. Succ. Syll. v., 2923. 
Pileus rather fleshy, obtuse, convex, then plane, not striate, at 
length depressed, squamulose, broken up into fiocci (1-3 c.m. 
broad); stem subfistulose, even (2-3 c.m. long, 2-5 m.m. thick), 
unspotted, steel-violet; gills adnate, ventrioose, whitish, then 
roseate ; spores irregular, 10-14 X 6-8 p. 
In pastures. Victoria. 
206 . Agaricus (Leptoma) quinquecolor. Che. ip Mass. Grev. 
xvn., 7, xix., 5.= Agaricus (Entoloma) flavido-rufus, Glee, fy 
Mass. Grev. xv., 99. 
Pileus membranaceous, convex, smooth, slightly virgate with 
radiating pink fibrils ; margin yellowish, disc brownish brick-red 
(about 1 in. diam.) ; stem cylindrical, equal, or slightly attenuated 
upwards, fistulose, bay brown, whitish fiocculose at the base (2 in. 
