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finely rough, whitish with a dirty-brownish tint. Gills 

 moderately crowded, adnate, whitish with a brown tint in 

 certain lights, later becoming coffee coloured, and finally 

 cinnamon-brown. Stem 3| inches high, | inch in diameter 

 above, expanding below to a somewhat bulbous base \\ 

 inch thick, with a conical almost fusiform root, mealy white 

 and somewhat silky fibrous. Ring § incli from the gills, 

 pendulous, torn, a rich reddish-brown from fallen spores. 

 Spores brown, 11 to 11*5 x 5'5 \i, oblique, with one or both 

 ends pointed." 



On the ground under a rock, Milson Island, Hawkesbury 

 River, May, 1913. In the description given by Cooke, the 

 cap is said to be at first smooth, then cracked deeply into 

 large areolae. Our specimen was smooth when gathered, but 

 is irregularly wrinkled when dry. The spore measurements 

 given by Cooke are larger than ours, viz., 14 x 9 fi. Our 

 spores are perhaps rather bright to be called "dusky 

 ferruginous" — P. disrupt a is placed in the section Phaeotae 

 by Cooke — but the tint "tawny-brown," applied to the colour 

 of the spores in the description, could be applied to those of 

 our specimen. Cooke records the species for Victoria. 



3. Pkoliota pudica, Fries. : Hymen. Eur., p. 118; Sacc. : 

 Syll., v., 3065; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 362; Cooke: Handb. 

 Austr. Fungi, No. 221. Previous Australian record, Victoria. — 

 We refer to this species a pure-white Pholiota with a slightly 

 hollow stem found growing in caespitose fashion amongst bark 

 at the base of a Eucalyptus on Milson Island, Hawkesbury 

 River, in March, 1912. Spores oval, brownish, 7' 2 to 

 9 x 5'5 /x. 



4. Pholiota recedens, Cooke and Massee : Grev., xviii., 25 ; 

 Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 217. Previous Australian 

 record, Victoria. — We refer, with some hesitation, the fol- 

 lowing common plant in the Sydney district to P. recedens. 

 Pileus | to | inch in diameter, hemispherical or conico- 

 campanulate, then expanded, sometimes slightly umbonate, 

 smooth, brownish-tan, edge becoming dark brown on drying 

 and striate, slightly hygrophanous, when young sometimes 

 showing some lighter yellow shreds on the pileus the colour of 

 the ring. Gills adnate but slightly sinuate and with a slight 

 decurrent tooth or adnexed and seceding, moderately distant, 

 ferruginous tan. Stem 2 inches high, slightly striate, hollow, 

 slightly thickened below, ferruginous tan. Ring marked, dis- 

 tant, reflexed, striate above, yellowish-brown. Spores yellow- 

 brown, obliquely flask-shaped, 9 to 13 x 6 to 7 /x. 



On the ground, Neutral Bay and Mosman, Sydney, May, 

 June, and August (D. I. C, Watercolour No. 21; Miss 

 Clarke, Watercolour No. 136.) 



