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stem fistulose, flexuous, with adpressed fibrils, at length smooth 
and pallid (2^ c.m. long) ; gills fixed, lax, ventricose, pallid clay- 
colour or cinnamon. Spores J4-16 x 7 p. 
On bare ground. Queensland. 
283. Agaricus (Naucoria) frusticola. Berk. Linn. Journ. 
xin., 158. Sacc. Syll. v., 3495. 
Densely csespitose ; pileus convex, umbilicate, tawny ^ in. 
across) ; stem slender, thickened downwards, mealy, and paler (1 
in. long, J line thick) ; gills ferruginous olive, emarginate, 
decurrent. Spores 7 p long. 
On roots of grass, etc. N.S. Wales. S. Australia. 
Sub-Genus 28. GALERA. Fr. Syst. Myc. i., 264. 
Veil none, or fibrillose, stem somewhat cartilaginous, continuous 
with the hymenophore, tubular. Pileus more or less membrana- 
ceous, conical or oval, then expanded, striate, margin at first 
straight, pressed to the stem. Gills not decurrent. 
* CoxocEi'iiAij. Pileus conic-campanulate, hygrophanous, nearly 
even, alomate when dry. Stem straight, gills ascending. Veil 
none. 
284. Agaricus (Galera) tener. Schcpff. Icon. t. 70, /. 6-8. 
Fr. Hym. Bur. 267. Cooke Ulus. t. 461. Sacc. Syll. v., 3537. 
Pileus submembranaceous, conico-campanulate, obtuse, hygro- 
phanous (1-3 c m. broad) ; stem straight, fragile, rather shining, 
nearly of the same colour (8-11 c.m. long); gills adnate, crowded, 
ascending, rather broad, cinnamon. Spores 11-15 X 6-10 p. 
In grassy places. Victoria. Tasmania. (Fig. 26). 
285. Agaricus (Galera) peroxydatus. Berk. Journ. Bot. 
1843, 511. Sacc. Syll. 3549. 
Pileus campanulate, rather hemispherical, with an apicuiiform 
umbo, membranaceous, rugulose when dry (11 m.m. broad) ; stem 
very thin, delicate, rather arched upwards, smooth (4 c.m. long); 
gills distant, ascending, rather narrow, adnate, not ventricose; 
spores brick red. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
286. Agaricus (Galera) hypnorum. Batsch. f. 96. Fr. 
Hym. Fur. 270. Cooke Ulus. t. 465. Sacc. Syll. v., 3568. 
Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, svbpapillate, smooth, 
striate, hygrophanous (6-14 m.m. broad) ; stem slender, flexuose, 
lax, of the same colour, apex pruinose (2-3 c.m. long) ; gills adnate, 
rather distant, broad, lax, at length plane, cinnamon-yellow. 
Spores 9-12 x 5-7 p. 
Amongst moss. Victoria. S. Australia. 
287. Agaricus (Galera) minutus. Quel. Jura, in., 10, t. 1, 
f. 5. Cooke Illus. t. 4665. 
Pileus tawny bistre, tender, campanulate (2-3 m.m.), mem- 
branaceous, striate ; stem almost capillary (l c.m.), smooth 
