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Lane Cove River, Sydney, June, 1916. 



12. Cortinarivs (Phleg.) largus, Fries. : Monogr., ii., p. 

 10; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 701; Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 ii. p. 99. — The following appears to be this species, though the 

 spores are a little narrower. Pileus finally up to 9 inches across, 

 convex, then irregular, then irregularly upturned, viscid when 

 moist, dark tan, finally becoming scorched brown, very slightly 

 fibrous when young, then smooth. Gills deeply sinuately 

 adnexed, close, pallid brownish-white with a faint violet tinge, 

 soon losing the violet to become pale brown, then more cin- 

 namon, finally dark reddish-brown. Steni 3Jr inches high, 

 1^ inch broad above, at first very stout with a non-marginate 

 bulb of 2 inches, when adult the bulb not noticeable, root 

 conical, solid, white tinged with the brown spores. Remains 

 of a cobweb veil when young. Tough. Flesh white, 1| inch 

 thick. No smell. Spores microscopically yellow-brown, 

 oblique, one end pointed, 10'4 to 12 x 5 /x. 



Caespitose on the ground. Mount Lofty (S.A.), April, 

 1917. 



13. Gortinarius (Phleg. [?]^ rotundisporus, n.sp. (pi. ix., 

 figs. 3 and 4). — Pileus up to 1 inch in diameter, slightly viscid 

 when moist, surface dull, convex with a trace of an umbo, the 

 edge a little turned in when young, occasionally of a beau- 

 tiful mauve colour, becoming pallid with a greyish-blue tint 

 and traces of brown when dry. Gills adnate or with a trace of 

 decurrence and slightly sinuate and ventricose, moderately 

 close, dingy flesh-tinted drying pale yellow-brown then 

 browner. Stem up to 2 inches high, attenuated upwards, 

 rather bulbous below, slightly striate, slender to moderately 

 slender or rather stout, white tinged with the colour of the 

 cap, with remains of a superior cobweb veil (bluish when 

 young), hollow. Flesh of the stem and cap pallid watery or 

 turning yellowish in the stem, no blue. Spores smooth, nearly 

 subspherioal, 6'8 to 7'4 x 5'5 to 6 p.. 



Subcaespitose under trees, Bradley Head and Mosman, 

 Sydney, May, 1917, and April, 1918 (Miss Clarke, Water- 

 colour No. 152). 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus when dry becoming creamy- 

 yellow, No. 30, Tons 2 and 3, tinged more or less with 

 eucalyptus green, No. 248, Ton. 2. Stem tinted with the 

 colours of the pileus. Gills when dry yellow-ochre, No. 326, 

 Ton 1. Spore mass near snuff brown (deep bistre), No. 303, 

 Ton 3. Pileus and stem of one specimen tinged with lavender- 

 blue (violet-blue), No. 204, paler than Ton 1. 



It is probable that this species should be placed under 

 Myxamicium. In one specimen the stem seemed to be viscid 



