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** Meedakii. Ring ojten incomplete. 
313. Agaricus (Stropharia) semiglobatus. Eatsch. Elen, 
f. 110. Fr. Hym. Fur. 287. Cooke Illus. t. 539. Face. 
Syll. v., 4151. 
Pileus somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, even, yellowish (2-6 c.m. 
broad) ; stem fistnlose, slender, straight (8-12 c.m. long), smooth, 
glutinous, yellowish ; veil abrupt ; gills adnate, broad, plane, 
clouded with black. Spores 13-14 x 8-9 g. 
On dung. Victoria. N.S.Wales. W. Australia. S. Australia. 
Queensland. Tasmania. 
314. Agaricus (Stropharia) merdarius. Fr. Hym. Eur. 
286. Cooke Illus. t. 537. 
Gregarious. Pileus convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, moist, 
hygrophanous (1-2 c.m.), stem hollow, tough, short, flocculose, 
pallid when dry (1-3 c.m. high) ; ring torn, fugacious ; gills adnate, 
broad, yellowish, then umber. 
Amongst grass. Victoria. 
Sub-Genus 35. HYPHOLOMA, Fr. S. M. i ., p. 287. 
Hymenopbore continuous with the stem, veil interwoven in a 
web, adhering in fragments to the margin of the pileus. Gills 
adnate or sinuate. Spores brownish- purple, sometimes intense 
purple, almost black. 
* Fasoiculabes. 
315. Agaricus (Hypholoma) fascicularis. Hudson FI. Angl. 
Fr. Hym. Fur. 2:2. Cooke Illus. t. 561. Sacc. Syll. v., 4178. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, subumbonate, smooth, yellowish (1-5 c.m. 
broad); stem hollow, thin, fibrillose, flexuose (5-24 c.m. long, 4-6 
m.m. thick), flesh yellow ; gills adnate, much crowded, linear, 
subdeliquescent, sulphur-coloured, then greenish. Spores 6-7 x 4 g. 
On old stumps, etc. Victoria. S. Australia. Tasmania. 
316. Agaricus (Hypholoma) dispersus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 292. 
Cooke JUus. t. 586. Sacc. Syll. v., 4182. 
Pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, 
even (2-3 c.m. broad), margin silky from the veil ; stem snbfistu- 
lose, thin, tough, fibrillose or silky, base brownish (5-8 c.m. long, 
2-3 m.m. thick) ; gills adnate, thin, subventricose, crowded, pallid 
straw-colour, then clouded. Spores 12-14 x 6 g. 
On stumps, and on the ground. W. Australia. S. Australia. 
Tasmania. 
** Flocculosi. 
317. Agaricus (Hypholoma) adustus. C. $ M. Crev. 
xviii., 3. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, dark brown, variegated with darker 
innate scales (2 in. broad), stem equal, paler, smooth (1J-2 in. 
long-, ^ in. thick), yellowish within, stuffed ; gills adnate, crowded, 
diy, livid, then dark brown, becoming black. Spores 7-8 x 4-5 g. 
On the ground. Queensland. (Fig. 30). 
