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The following colour tints were noted: — Pileus near dark 

 chocolate-brown (carob-brown), No. 342, Ton. 1. Stem buff, 

 No. 309, Ton 1. Spore mass chocolate, No. 343, Ton 2. 



29. Inocybe subasterospora, n. sp. (pi. x., figs. 4 and 

 5). — The following common species in the Sydney district 

 agrees fairly well with Cooke's illustrations of I. astero- 

 spora, save that the plants are smaller. It also resembles 

 somewhat Cooke's figures of I. maritima. As it seems clearly 

 distinct from the South Australian specimens, we give it a 

 new name which indicates its affinity : — Pileus occasionally 

 up to lj inch in diameter, slightly convex, sometimes 

 depressed, subgibbous to occasionally papillately umbonate, 

 dark brown, occasionally lighter or rusty-brown and often 

 more chestnut at the periphery, usually fibrously streaked and 

 splitting, occasionally more scaly. Gills adnate to adnexed, 

 separating from the stem, moderately crowded, pale milk- 

 coffee coloured, then cinnamon, sometimes with a white edge. 

 Stem up to 1| inch high, moderately stout, solid, slightly 

 fibrillose, pale brownish, slightly mealy above, base sometimes 

 a little swollen. Spores irregularly knobby, 7 to 9 x 5'2 

 to 7 jui. Cystidia numerous, ventricose, apices usually knobby, 

 42 x 17, 47 x 15'5, 50 x 14, 55 x 2P5, 70 x 17 /x, etc. 



Sydney district, March to July, October, December; 

 Pittwater, April; Parramatta, July; Milson Island, Hawkes- 

 bury River, July, November; Hill Top (E. C), May; locali- 

 ties not noted (several) ; locality not stated (stem white but 

 cap dark). (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 33; D. I. C, 

 Watercolour No. 63; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp., November, 

 1914). 



Pileus interdum ad 3 cm. latus, aliquanto convexus, interdum 

 depressus, subgibbosus, interdum papilloso-umbonatus, 

 fuscus, interdum pallido-fuscus aut ferrugineo-fuscus, 

 vulgo fibratus et fissus, interdum aliquanto squamosus. 

 Lamellae adnatae aut adnexae, stipite secedentes, 

 aliquanto confertae, pallido-cinereo-fuscae, deinde cinna- 

 moneae, interdum marginibus albidis. Stipes ad 3*75 

 cm. altus, aliquanto crassus, non cavus, aliquanto 

 fibrillosus, pallido-fuscus, in parte superiore aliquanto 

 farinosus, base interdum aliquanto inflate Sporae nodis 

 irregularibus, 7-9 x 5'2-7 jll. Cystidia ventricosa, apici- 

 bus vulgo nodosis, 42 x 17, 47 x 15.5, 50 x 14, 

 55 x 21*5, 70 x 17 /x, etc. 



30. Inocybe gomphodes, Kalchb. : Grev., viii., 152, tab. 

 142, f. 8; Sacc. : SylL, v., 3235; Cooke: Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 237 (N.S.W.).— The following we believe to be 

 Kalchbrenner's 7. gomphodes, his figure of which it 

 resembles. In the original description, there is no reference 



