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tawny, shining, woolly and white at the base ; gills adnate, 
arcuate, as broad as long, moderately crowded, yellowish, then 
clay-coloured, with edge whitish. 
On decayed wood. Victoria. 
Sub-Genus 29. TUBARIA, Smith. 
Stem subcartilaginous, fistulose. Pileus rather membranaceous, 
often clad with the floccose universal veil. Gills subdecurrent, 
broadest behind, triangular. 
* Genuini. Spores ferruginous. 
288. Agaricus (Tubaria) furfuraceus. Pers. Syn. 454. 
Fr. Hym. Eur. 272. Cooke lltus. t. 603. Sacc. Syll.v., 3584. 
Pileus somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, then depressed, 
moist, hygrophanoas, at first clothed with silky evanescent scales, 
then naked (2 c.m. broad) ; stem fistulose, flocculose, rigid, pallid 
{2-6 c.m. long) ; gills adnato-decurrent, rather distant, cinnamon- 
coloured. Spores 7-9 x 3-5 y. 
On chips, etc. Victoria. Queensland. Tasmania. Lake 
Bonney. (Fig. 20). 
289. Agaricus (Tubaria) inquilinus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 274. 
Cooke Ulus. t. 497. Sacc. Syll. v., 3597. 
Pileus submembranaceous, convexo-plane, smooth, slightly striate, 
hygrophanous, centre somewhat fleshy (l£ c.m. broad) ; stem 
fistulose, short, tough, dark brown, attenuated downwards (2^ c.m. 
long, 2 m.m. thick) ; gills adnato-decurrent, triangular, convex, 
scarcely crowded, clay-coloured, then umber. Spores 10 x 6 y. 
On chips. N.S. Wales. 
var. ecbolus. Fries Hym. Eur. 275. 
Pileus clay-coloured, stem rooting, gills crowded. 
On grass roots. N.S. Wales. 
Sub-Genus 30. CRFPIDOTITS. Fr. St/s. Myc. I., 272. 
Variable in size, irregular, without manifest veil. Pileus 
excentric, lateral, or resupinate. Spores ferruginous. 
290. Agaricus (Crepidotus) phaeton. Cke. <J- Mass. Grev. 
xv., 99. 
Pileus submembranaceous, plane, depressed behind, brick-red 
(1^-2 in. diam.), margin thin, flexuous, faintly striate; stem 
lateral, elongated, nearly equal, of the same colour, thickened at 
the base and whitish villose (2 in. long, 2 lines thick) ; gills 
linear, somewhat decurrent, cinnamon ; spores elliptic, 8x4 y. 
On the ground (?). Victoria. (Fig. 27). 
291. Agaricus (Crepidotus) palmatus. Bull, Champ. 216. 
Fr. Hym. Eur. 275. Sacc. Syll. v., 3598. 
Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then expanded, irregular, smooth, 
pelliculose, ferruginous (4-8 c.m. broad) ; stem excentric or lateral, 
