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fibrils or with a few widely separated scales, dark tan or 

 reddish-brown with a pale yellow-brown periphery, in a very 

 young plant the 'edge turned in and a fibrillose veil. Gills 

 adnate or sinuate with a slight decurrent tooth, moderately 

 close, yellowish-green or pale yellow-brown, drying dark 

 cinnamon. Stem | to 2 inches high, slender, slightly attenu- 

 ated upwards, slightly hollow, base a little bulbous, fibrous, 

 apex not mealy, clad below with brownish fibrillose scales 

 with white mycelium, at the base, yellowish-brown above. Flesh 

 white,* becoming yellow (?). No taste. Sometimes gregarious. 

 Spores elliptical, dingy brown microscopically, 7'8 to 9 x 5 

 to 6*3 fx. Cystidia ventricose with acuminate apices, 50 x 10'5 

 to 13-8 /x. 



Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, July, 1912, and May, 

 1913 (D. I. C, Watercolour No. 12); Neutral Bay, Sydney, 

 April, 1915 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 58), June, 1914 

 and 1916, July, 1916; other localities, near Sydney, April 

 to July; Lane Cove River, Sydney, June, 1916 (spores 

 yellow-brown); Brookvale, July, 1916; Terrigal, June, 1914; 

 Hill Top, April, May; Lilyvale (A. A. Hamilton), April, 

 1912; The Oaks, June, 1914; Leura (T. Steel), February, 

 1911, and (J. B. C.) June, 1916; Kendall, May, 1917— all 

 in New South Wales. The following are larger forms usually 

 found amongst fallen leaves : — North Bridge, Sydney, June, 

 1916 (cystidia 42 x 13*8 /x) ; Sydney, March, 1914, and June, 

 1916; Lane Cove River, June, 1916; on a stump, Mosman, 

 May, 1916 (cap up to 3 inches across, cystidia 35 to 

 60 x 14 jut) ; Lisarow, August, 1916 — all in New South Wales. 

 Colour tints noted: — Centre of pileus madder brown 

 (brownish-terracotta), No. 334, Ton 4, periphery paler. 

 Lamellae straw-yellow, No. 31, Tons 2, 3. WTien drying, 

 pileus near fawn, No. 308, Ton 1, the centre near Ton 4. 

 The lower part of the stem the same tint but paler, the 

 scales about Ton 3. Lamellae golden-bronze-green, No. 298, 

 Ton 2 (J. B. C). 



Pileus brown-pink, No. 297, Tons 3, 4, to burnt umber, 

 No. 304, Ton 1. Gills snuff-brown, No. 303, Ton 1, to mineral- 

 brown, No. 339, Tons 1, 2. Upper part, of stem cream-yellow, 

 No. 30, Ton 2, to amber-yellow, No. 28, Tons 2, 3 (E. C). 

 Pileus ad 5 cm. latus, convexus, mox planus >aut rcpandus, 

 gibbosus, interdum viscidus, fuscus, margine pallido.- 

 fusco. Lamellae adnatae vel sinuatae et minime decur- 

 rentes, paulo confertae, flavo-viridae deinde pallido-flavo- 

 fuscae, exsiceatae cinnamoneae. Stipes ad 5 cm. altus, 

 gracilis, sursum paulo attenuatus, paulo tubulosus, base 

 paulo bulboso, fibrillosus, deorsum squamis fibrillosis 

 fuscis, sursum flavo-fuscus. Sporae ellipticae, fuscae, 



