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yellow (8 c.m. long) ; gills attenuated, adnexed, yellowish, then 
pale cinnamon. Spores 14-15 X 8-9 p. 
On dung. Victoria. Queensland. W. Australia. 
357. Bolbitius titubans. Bull. Fr. Hym. Eur. 334. Cooke 
lllus. t. 690. Sacc. Syll. 4358. 
Pileus membranaceous, ovate-campanulate, then expanded (2|- 
c.m. broad), yellow, discoid ; stem slender, straight, shining, 
yellowish (11-14 c in. long, 2-4 tn.m. thick) ; gills slightly adnexed, 
pallid, then purplish or fleshy-brown (salmon-coloured, B.). Spores 
12 x 8 ft. 
Amongst grass. Victoria. (Fig. 36). 
358. Bolbitius conoceplialus. Bull. t. 563, /. 1. Fr. 
Hym. Fur. 334. Sacc. Syll. 4357. Cooke lllus. t. 1160. 
Pileus membranaceous, conical, hygrophanous, disc even, rather 
viscid, margin striate (3 c.m. broad) ; stem fistuiose, equal, 
smooth, shining, white (8-9 c.m. long, 3-4 tn.m. thick) ; gills free, 
ventricose, tawny, then ferruginous. Spores 18x9-10 p. 
On moist ground. Victoria. N.S. Wales. 
Genus 4. HIATULA. Fries Novce Symbols, n. 
Pileus very thin, without distinct pellicle, formed from the union 
of the back of the gills, splitting when expanded, as in very thin 
species of Coprinus, but not deliquescent, and spores white. 
359. Hiatula Wynnise. B. if Br. Ann. N. II. No. 1772. 
Cooke Ulus t. 688. Sacc. Syll. 1168. 
White. Pileus tender, striate, pulverulent, darker in the centre 
(l-l|in. across) ; stem slender, striate (1 in. high, 1 line thick) ; 
gills rather broad, rough. 
On the ground. Harkaway Range. 
Genus 5. CORTINARIUS. Fries. 
Veil like a cobweb, distinct from the cuticle of the pileus ; 
superficial stem confluent with the hymenophore ; gills persistent, 
dry, becoming discoloured, powdered with the slowly falling spores ; 
trama fibrillose ; spores oblong, rusty ochre. 
Tribe 1. Phlegmacium. Partial veil web-like; pileus equally 
fleshy, viscid ; stem firm, dry. 
360. Cortinarius (Fblegmacium) decoloratus. Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 351. Cooke lllus. t. 729. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, expanded, obtuse (2-4 in. broad) ; viscid, 
even, soon dry , Jloccose, and discoloured ; stem attenuated from the 
thickened base (3 in. long, in. thick), fibrillose-striate, silvery, 
naked above ; gills ernarginate, somewhat crowded, whitish, or 
bluish-grey, then clay-coloured cinnamon. Spores 7 X 3-4 p. 
In woods. Victoria. 
