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long, 1 line thick), usually casspitose; gills sinuately adnate, rosey; 
spores globose, rough, 8-10 p. 
On black loam. Victoria. (Pig. 16). 
207. Agaricus (Xeptouia) aquilus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 204. 
Fr. Icon. t. 98,/. 3. Ziacc. Syll. 2945. 
Pileus rather membranaceous, convex, then plane, deeply urnbili- 
cate, faintly striate, smooth, rather virgate, bay brown (1^-2^ c.m. 
broad) ; stem short, stuffed, subfibrillose, not punctate, brown, 
thickened upwards (2J c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick) ; gills deeply 
sinuate-adnexed, very broad, rather distant, umber, then purple. 
On the ground. Lake Bonney, 
208. Agaricus (Xeptonia) melanurus. dee. 8f Mass. Grev. 
six., 89. 
Pileus campanulate, subumbonate, then expanded, shining black, 
cracking radiately (2 c.m. broad), silky ; stem cylindrical (5-6 c.m. 
long, 2 m.m. thick), swollen abruptly at the rooting base, greyish, 
with black striaj ; gills reaching the stem, lanceolate, pallid, then 
pinkish, margin blackish, with a line of large dark cystidia, having 
one to three blunt teeth at the apex ; spores subglobose (7 x 5/t). 
On the ground. Victoria. 
Sub-Genus 19. NOLANE A,. Fr. S. M. i., p. 204. 
Stem fistulose, rarely with a medullate tube, cartilaginous ; 
pileus rather membranaceous, campanulate, suhpapillate, striate or 
sometimes smooth, clad with flocci, margin straight, at first pressed 
to the stem, not involute ; gills free or affixed, not decurrent. 
209. Agaricus (Nolauea) pascuus. Pers. Comm. t. 209. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 206. Cooke Illus. t. 376. Sacc. Syll. v.,2960. 
Pileus membranaceous, conical, then expanded, subumbonate, 
smooth, striate, hygrophanous, when dry shining like silk (2-4 
c.m. broad); stem fistulose, fragile, silky fibrous striate (2-8 c.m. 
long, 2-5 m.m. thick), gills attenuated behind, nearly free, ventri- 
cose, crowded, dirty greyish. Spores irregular, 7x11/* diam. 
In pastures. Inodorous. Tasmania. (Fig. 17). 
210. Agaricus (Nolauea) mammosus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 207. 
Cooke Illus. t. 377 b. Sane. Syll. v., 2947. 
Pileus somewhat membranaceous (4 c.m. broad), conieo-cam- 
panulate, papillate , striate, smooth, hygrophanous ; when dry isabel- 
line and silky; stem fistulose, rigid, polished, even, smooth (7 c.m. 
long), mealy at the apex; gills affixed, seceding, rather crowded, 
grey. Spores angular, 7 x 10 p diam. 
In meadows. Victoria. 
211. Agaricus (Nolauea) rufo-carueus. Berk. Outl. 148. 
Fr. dlym. Fur. 208. Cooke Illus. t. 378 b. Sacc. Syll. 
v., 2980. 
Pileus submembranaceous, hemispherical, umbilicate, indistinctly 
fibrillose-squamulose, red brown (2 j c.m. broad), margin striate ; 
