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fistulose, thread-like, turning black, rather proportionately long 
(4-5 c.m. long), quite smooth at the seating base ; gills few, rather 
broad, paler than the pilous. 
On putrid leaves of Bougainvillea. Victoria. Queensland. 
439 . Marasmius lignyo&es. Berk. Linn. Journ. xviii., 884. 
Sacc. Syll. 2199. 
Pileus convex, granulate, sulcate (2 5 rn.m. broad) ; stem I 'lack, 
shining, striate (2-3 c.m. long) ; gills broad, ventricose, umber. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Victoria. 
440 . Marasmins eucalypti. B-rk. FI. 1'asm. n., 249. Sacc. 
Syll. 2209. 
Pileus conical, terminated by an operculiform umbo, or obtuse, 
brownish (12-18 m.m. diam.), silky ; stem hair-like, compressed, 
shining (2-10 c.m. long) ; gdls ventricose, whitish, interstices 
veined. 
On fruit and branches of Eucalyptus. Tasmania. Fiji. 
441 . Marasmius equicrinis. Muell. Grev. vni., 153. Sacc. 
Syll. 2203. 
Sterile mycelium black, shining, like horse-hair, seldom bearing 
pilei ; pileus whitish, becoming tawny, small, membranaceous, 
convex, obtuse (1-2 m.m. broad) ; stem hair-like, rigid, black, 
shining (1 c.m. and more long), arising from a black horse-hair- 
like mycelium ; gills few, distant, paler than the pileus. 
On branches. Victoria. N. 8. Wales. Queensland. (Fig. 44). 
442 . Marasmius bicolor. Sacc Syll. v., 2218 = M. dichrous, 
B. <$• G. Pac. Exp. No. 74. 
Small. Pileus convex, white, smooth; stem short, rufescent 
below, thread-like ; gills few, adnexed and decurrent, interstices 
even, white. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
443 . Marasmius rufopr.llidus. Kalch. Grev. iv., 71, 1. 143, 
f. 15. Sacc. Syll. 2219. 
Pileus membranaceous, rather convex, broadly umbonate, umbo 
circumscribed with a circular line (4-6 m.m. broad), rather 
striate, smooth, light reddish ; stem filiform, smooth, pallid 
(3 c.m. long), fixed at the base by a white mycelium ; gills 
reaching the stem, rather crowded, pallid. 
On the ground about trunks. Queensland. 
444. Marasmius aciculreformis. Berk. Curt. Linn. Journ. 
x. Sacc. Syll. 2223. 
Oregarious. Pileus couvex, tawny, scarcely sulcate (2 lines 
across). Stem liair-like, rigid, quite smooth, shining, brownish 
(1^ in. long). Gills few, whitish. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
