AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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309. Agaricus (Fsalliota) versipes. Berk. Br. Linn. 
Trans, n., 54. Sacc. Syll. 4081. 
Pileus white, smooth, like chamois leather, depressed in the 
centre, tough (5-8 in. across) ; stem floccosely stuffed, attenuated 
at the base (6 in. long, in. thick), ring broad ; gills free, fasci- 
culate at the base, at first white, then salmon colour. Spores 
7-10 p diam. 
At the roots of bamboos. Queensland. 
* # Minoues. Pileus thinly fleshy. 
310. Agaricus (Fsalliota) elatior. Cke. <j- Mass. Grev. 
xviii., 3. 
Pileus thinly fleshy, convex, then plane, umbonate (1^ in. 
diam.), brown, covered with adpressed darker scales; stem erect, 
cylindrical, elongated (3-5 in. long, 2 lines thick), silky, whitish, 
thickened at the base ; ring superior, evanescent ; gills free, rather 
crowded, ventricose, purple brown. Spores minute, 3 X 2 p. 
On the ground. Victoria. (Fig. 28). 
Sub-Genus 33. PILOSACE. Fr. 
Resembling Psalliota, but destitute of a ring (at present not 
known in Australia). 
Sub-Genus 34. STROPHARIA. Fr. Monog . Hymen, i., p. 409. 
Hvmenophore continuous with the stem. Veil annulate; gills 
more or less adnate. Spores intense bright purple-brown, brown 
or slate-colour. 
a. Visoipelles. Pileus with a smooth, or squamose, often viscid, 
pellicle. 
* Mundi. Not growing on dung. 
311. Agaricus (Stropharia) coronillus. Bull. Champ, t. 
597. Cooke lllus. t. 535. Sacc. Syll. v., 4129. 
Pileus fleshy, hemispherical, then flattened, convex, even, rather 
viscid, ochraceous, fulvous, growing pale, margin at first whitish, 
floccose (3-5 c.m.) ; stem white, stuffed, then fistulose, fibrillose, 
attenuated downwards, base equal or bulbillose (4-5 c.m. long, 3-5 
m.in. thick) ; ring adhering to the stem, median, sulcato-plicate ; 
flesh white ; odour somewhat of radishes ; gills crowded, sinuately 
adnate, whitish, then purple-violet, at length becoming blackish, 
edge whitish and pruinose under a lens. Spores 8-10 x a 
By waysides. Victoria. (Fig. 29). 
312. Agaricus (Stropharia) squamosus. Fr. Hym. Ear. 
285. Cooke lllus. t. 553. Sacc. Syll. v., 4124. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, subviseid, yellowish tawny, 
sprinkled with superlicial concentric scales ; stem subfistulose, 
slender, villoso-squamose below the distant ring ; gills adnate, 
crowded, blackish, with a whitish edge. Spores 10-14 x 6j-7 p. 
In woods. Victoria. N.S. Wales. 
