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adnatae, aliquanto confertae, violaceo-cinnamoneae, 

 deinde fuscae, exsiccatae ferrugineo-fuscae. Stipes ad 7*5 

 cm. longus, gracilis, serioeo-fibrillosus, candidus, violaceus 

 aut pallido-violaceo-albidus. Caro albido- et violaceo- 

 colorata. Sporae 7-8*5 x 5*2-6 \l. 



Paxillus. 



20. Paxillus aureus, auct.(l). — Specimens of this species 

 have been kindly identified for us by C. G. Lloyd. Plants 

 collected at Somersby Falls, near Gosford, New South Wales, 

 in May, 1915, we describe as follows: — At first small, orbi- 

 cular, attached by the back, hymenial surface slightly con- 

 cave and saucer-like, pale yellow, the gills thick and honey- 

 comb-like, upper-surface white. Finally somewhat flabelliform, 

 1 inch broad and f inch high, the upper-surface white and 

 matt, laterally attached; gills rather thick, radiating, 

 dividing, connected by numerous wrinkles, buff coloured; on 

 rotten log ; spores pale yellowish, elliptical but often irregular, 

 4 to 4'8 x 3 jut. 



Large and handsome specimens (those identified by 

 Lloyd) were found under a fallen log at Wiseman Ferry 

 (N.S.W.) in August, 1915; the spores, borne on tetrasporous 

 basidia, were pale yellowish ( ?), rod-shaped, 3'5 x 1'5 //,; 

 the dried plants show radiating gills connected by wrinkles, 

 the gills being a rich golden-brown near their bases and dark 

 brown at the distal ends. 



21. Phylloporus rhodozanthus, (Schw.) Bres. ; Paxillus 

 paradoxus, (Kalchb.) ; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 884; Cook©: 

 Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 369, fig. 38 (Vict,, Q'land.).— 

 From Fetch's account (New York State Museum, Rep. of 

 State Botanist, 1908, p. 40) this is a variable species and has 

 been referred to various genera and described under different 

 specific names. The species as met with by us also seems 

 rather variable. The usual form has a relatively short, stout 

 stem and adnato-decurrent gills, but occasional specimens are 

 met with exhibiting longer and more slender stems and 

 deeply decurrent gills. The stems usually show only a trace 

 of brown or reddish-brown. Our usual specimens agree well 

 with Petch's description and the spore measurements with his. 

 Massee, in his British Fungus Flora, gives the spore measure- 

 ments as 20 to 22 x 7 to 8 /x, which must either be an error 

 or our plants and the American ones belong to a different 

 species. 



A composite description of our plant is as follows : — 

 Pileus 2 inches or more in diameter, convex, sometimes dis- 

 torted, tomentose or villose matt, dark umber to brownish, 

 reddish-brown, pale yellowish-brown or stony-brown. Flesh 



