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220. Agaricus (Pholiota) disruptus. Cke. cj- Mass. Grev. 
xix., 89. 
Pileus convex, fleshy, creamy white, at first smooth, then 
cracked deeply into large areolae, especially about the fleshy disc 
(8-10 c.m. broad), margin incurved ; stem elongated, cylindrical, 
expanding into the pileus, sometimes slightly swollen at the base 
(10 c.m. long, 10-15 m.m. thick), same colour as the pileus, hollow, 
striate, cracking, and subsquamulose, with a strong cord-like 
mycelium ; ring narrow, pendulous ; gills adnate, rather ventri- 
cose, broad, not crowded, dull pinkish white, then umber. Spores 
elliptical, tawny-brown, 14 x 9 /a. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
b. Trunciqenas. Growing on wood. 
221. Agaricus (Pholiota) pudicus. Fr. Hym. Bur. 218. 
Sacc. Syli. 80ti5. Cooke Ulus. t. 362. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, dry, smooth 
(6-7 c.m. broad) ; stem solid, nearly equal, even (6x1 c.m. 
variable) ; ring spreading, persistent ; gills rounded behind, 
adnate, ventricose, whitish , then tawny. Spores 8 X 5-6 fi. 
On trunks, etc. Victoria. 
222. Agaricus (Pholiota) phylicigena. Berk. Chall. Exp. 
Mo 75. Sacc. Syll. 3071. 
Pileus convex, fleshy, areolate, tawny, at first quite smooth 
(8 c.m. and more broad) ; stem thick, attenuated upwards, 
thickened below, transversely flocculose beneath the thick movable 
ring (5 c.m. long, 4 c.m. thick) ; gills rather decurrent, clay 
colour. Spores obliquely oblong, about 8 p. long, but variable. 
On trunks of Phylica, Queensland. (Pig. 21). 
223. Agaricus (Pholiota) effusus. Kalch. in Aust. Fungi, p. 
6. Sacc. Syll. 3104. 
Pileus fleshy, subglobose, obtuse, breaking into polygonal wart- 
like areolie, white, stem of the same colour, solid, cylindrical, 
slightly attenuated upwards, even, effused at the base into a broad 
membranaceous mycelium, ring membranaceous, persistent, white; 
gills adnate, crowded, ferruginous-yellow. 
On wood. Daylesford. 
* Squamosa. 
224. Agaricus (Pholiota) congestus. Kalch. Grev. ix., 147, 
t. 145, f. 27. Sacc. Syll. 3094. 
Densely cajspitose ; pileus fleshy, cauipanulate, the size of a pea, 
floccosely squamulose, rather mealy, brownish, as well as the down- 
wards attenuated stem ; ring floccose, gills somewhat decurrent, 
narrow, crowded, ferruginous olive. 
On trunks. Dayleslord. 
A doubtful species, possibly only young state of some such 
species as Ag. squarrosus. 
