AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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jiexuous, slightly silky, yellowish, base somewhat bulbous (8-11 c.m. 
long, 2-3 m.m. thick) ; gills adnexed, broad, subdistant, brownish, 
then dirty cinnamon. Spores 10-12 X 4-5 p. 
In pastures. Victoria. 
277. Agaricus (Naucoria) semiorbicularis. Bull. Champ, 
t. 422. Cooke 1 llus . t. 493a. Sacc. Syll. v., 3470. 
Pileus rather fleshy (2^-6 c.in. broad), hemispherical, then 
expanded, even, smooth, rather viscid, at length rivulose ; stem 
slender, tough, almost straight, pallid, ferruginous, shining , with a 
separable pith (8-11 c.m. long, 2-3 m.m. thick); gills adnate, 
very broad, crowded, pallid, then ferruginous. Spores 10x5-6 p. 
On lawns and pastures. Victoria. Queensland. 
278. Agaricus (Naucoria) Drummondi. Berk. Hook. 
Journ., 1845, 46. Sacc. Syll. v., 3484. 
Pileus convex, smooth, viscid, very thin (3 m.m. broad) ; stem 
fibrillose, mealy above (2 c.m. long, 1 m.m. thick) ; clothed at the 
base with white down, which spreads in a round patch over the 
matrix. Gills clay colour, with a white margin, ventricose, 
toothed. Spores elliptic. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. W. Australia. 
279. Agaricus (Naucoria) temulentus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 262. 
Cooke Illus. t. 459. Sacc. Syll. v., 3486. 
Pileus rather membranaceous, campanulate, then convex, smooth, 
hygrophanous, ferruginous, when dry tan colour; margin slightly 
striate (l-2£ c.m. broad); stem fistulose, thin, tough, polished, 
Jiexuous, powdery above (7-8 c.m. long, 2-3 m.m. thick) ; gills 
attenuated behind, adnate, rather distant, lurid umber, then ferru- 
ginous. Spores 12 x 6 p. 
In moist woods. Victoria. Harkaway Range. 
280. Agaricus (Naucoria) siparius. Fr. Hym. Eur. 263. 
Cooke Illus. t. 4805. Sacc. Syll. v. 3507. 
Pileus rather fleshy, plane (6-11 m.m. broad), obtuse; stem 
stuffed, pruinose above, clothed, as well as the pileus, with downy 
scales (l-2£ c.m. long) ; gills adnate, broad, rather distant, floccose 
at the edge. 
On soil, fern stems, etc. Victoria. 
281. Agaricus (Naucoria) Bowmanni. Berk. Linn. Journ. 
xm., p. 128. Sacc. Syll. 3506. 
Small. Pileus convex, umbilicate, innately floccose and rough 
(4-9 m.m. broad) ; stem slender, floccose, becoming smooth (12 
m.m. long, 1 m.m. thick); gills shortly adnate, distant, ventricose. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
Agaricus (Naucoria) escharoides. Fr. Hym. Eur. 
264. Cooke Illus. t. 5125. Sacc. Syll. v., 3574. 
Pileus rather fleshy, conico-convex (1^ c.m. broad) ; then 
expanded, obtuse, squamuloso-furfuraeeous, becoming pallid ; 
