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rich tan to dark yellow-brown. Gills sinuately adnexed or as 

 if adnate and then seceding, moderately close, pale salmon or 

 pallid cinnamon. Stem 1| inch high, moderately stout, 

 somewhat swollen below, viscid below the brown median 

 remains of the veil, solid or hollow, white, sometimes fibrously 

 streaked. Taste bitter. Spores yellow-brown, 8"5 to, occa- 

 sionally, 10"5 x 5'2 /a. 



On the ground. The Spit, Sydney, July, 1916; Sydney, 

 July; Mount Lofty (S.A.), July, 1914 (cap 2 inches in 

 diameter, stem not noted as sticky, spores distinctly larger 

 and usually 10'5 jul long; this may be a distinct species). 



16. Cortinarius (Dermocybe) camurus, Fries. : Epicr., p. 

 285; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 784; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 ii., p. 61. — The following resembles the description of this 

 species and also Cooke's illustration of it, save that the umbo 

 may be acute and not obtuse. Pileus 1 to 1| inch broad, 

 | inch high, conico-convex with an acute, sometimes obtuse, 

 umbo, edge slightly incurved, finely fibrously striate, not 

 viscid, dark tan or with the apex nearly black, succeeded by 

 chestnut-tan or reddish-brown with the periphery lighter, 

 drying rather shiny and striate. Gills adnate or slightly 

 sinuate, moderately close, edge crenate, slightly ventricose, 

 reddish-cinnamon. Stem 3 inches high, rigid, moderately 

 slender, attenuated upwards, slightly fibrillose or silky striate, 

 slightly hollow, white or pallid whitish. Ring imperfect. 

 Brown (?) or whitish cobwebby universal veil. Flesh thin, 

 attenuated towards the edge. Slight seminal smell. When 

 young with the edge turned in and the cap conico-acute. 

 Caepitose at the base of tree- trunks. Spores yellow-brown, 

 sometimes slightly warted, 8*5 to 10'4 x 5 to 6 jul. 



Neutral Bay, Sydney, April and May, 1915 (Miss Clarke, 

 Watercolour No, 74; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., 102); at 

 base of tree, Mosman, Sydney, July, 1916 (spores finely 

 warted) ; Hawkesbury River, May, 1915 (cap \ inch in 

 diameter, reddish-brown ; gills adnexed ; stem 1 inch high, 

 moderately stout, solid ; flesh pale reddish-brown ; spores 

 smooth). Bradley Head, Sydney, May, 1917; Kendall 

 (N.S.W.), May, 1917. 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus tan colour, No. 317, Tons 

 2-4, apex very dark; gills cinnamon, No. 323, Ton 3; spore 

 mass near Ru ochre, No. 314, Ton 1. 



17. Cortinarius (Dermocybe) miltinus, Fries. : Epicr., 

 p. 287; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 785a; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 ii., p. 65. — We describe specimens collected at Bradley Head. 

 Sydney, in April, 1918, thus: — Pileus up to 2 inches (5 cm.) 

 in diameter, convex, finally upturned and rather wavy, sub- 

 gibbous, dry, matt, reddish-brown, paler when old. Gills 



