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sinuate, rather ventricose, moderately close, blood-red brown, 

 later more rusty. Stem up to If inches (4'5 cm.) high, moder- 

 ately slender, sometimes flattened, slightly fibrously streaked, 

 blood-reddish-brown, hollow. Veil reddish-brown. Flesh of 

 cap white over the stem attachment, very thin elsewhere; 

 flesh of the stem reddish-brown peripherally. Spores 7 to 

 8 x 4*2 p. 



Colour tints noted: — Pileus in places red ochre (red- 

 brown terracotta), No. 332, Ton 1; with tinges in the centre 

 rather more purplish than blood-red brown, No. 337, Ton 2; 

 other parts of the pileus (peripherally) approaching tan 

 colour, No. 317, Ton. 1. Stem at th© base approaching garnet 

 brown, No. 164, Ton 1, and also the blood-red brown of the 

 pileus, No. 337, Ton 2. Gills near dark Indian red (red- 

 brown), No. 338, Ton 4; later, from the spores, turning more 

 to mineral brown, No. 339, Ton 2, with touches of cin- 

 namon. Spore mass near hazel, No. 324, Ton 4. 



The following appear to be smaller specimens of this 

 species: — Pileus § to 1£ inch in diameter, convex, then up- 

 turned, sometimes umbonate, dark tanny or yellow-brown, 

 with a lens finely fibrillose, edge turned in. Gills adnate, 

 moderately close or moderately distant, pallid cinnamon to 

 reddish-brown. Remains of a yellow-brown cobweb veil. 

 Stem 1 to 2 inches high, slender, finely striate, white at the 

 top but very soon blood-red from the fibres of the universal 

 veil seen in very young plants covering the cap and stem 

 with blood-red, solid. Spores yellow-brown, (?)finely rough, 

 8-5 x 5'2 /x. 



On the ground, North Bridge, Sydney, July, 1916 

 (Herb., J. B. C, Form-. Sp., 211); National Park (N.S.W.), 

 July, 1916. 



18. Gortinarius (Dermocybe) venetus, Fries. : Epicr., p. 

 291; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 833b; Masse©: Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 ii., p. 73. — We place the following under C. venetus: — Pileus 

 up to 2 inches or more in diameter, convex, usually gibbous, 

 edge turned in, then expanding and irregular, smooth, bright 

 yellow-green to olive-green or brownish-green. Gills broadly 

 adnexed and slightly sinuate, sometimes with a decurrent 

 tooth, moderately close, pale yellow-brown, then cinnamony- 

 yellow, later dark yellow-brown. Stem up to 3 inches 

 high and § inch broad, wavy, pallid yellowish or whitish, 

 sometimes reddish-brown below ([?]from veil), fibrillose, solid 

 or with a tendency to be hollow. Flesh white with a pale 

 yellow tint, thin except in the centre; when injured by insects 

 turning reddish-brown. Remains of cobweb veil on the upper 

 part of the stem. Spores smooth, oblique, rather elongated, 

 8 to 11 x 52 to 7 ju,. 

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