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Colour tints noted :—Pileus smoke-grey (pl. 313, Ton 4). 
Stem flecked with smoke-grey (pl. 313, Ton 4). Gills very 
pale smoke-grey or greyish-white. 
Pileus ad 8&7 cm. latus, primo globosus, deinde convexus, 
interdum gibbosus, deinde planus aut depressus, glaber, 
margine striata, fumoso-cinereus. ^ Lamellae subdis- 
junctae, confe rtae, cinereo-albidae, marginibus percinereo- 
albidis et subserratis. Stipes 10 ad 13 cm. we crassus, 
sursum  subattenuatus, substriatus, deorsum cavus, 
fumoso-cinereus et punctatus. Volva vaginata, ampla, 
fumoso-cinerea. Sporae sphericae, 10°4-18 p 
This eae is clearly closely related to, se quite dis- 
tinct from, A. vaginata, Roze, which we have also collected. 
er 
the gills, punctate grey stem, and size and shape of the spores 
are distinctive features. We have designated it '*punctata" 
from the appearance of the stem. (Pl. xxviii.) 
ARMILLARIA. 
Armillaria mellea, Vahl; Cooke: Illustrs., pl. 32; 
Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 47; Clel. and, Cheel: 
S. Austr., April and June, 1917; Kendall, N.S. Wales, May, 
Pod teri banana (Musa, sp.), Botanic Gardens, Sydney; 
uly, 1 
In Ma ay, 1917, an interesting form was found at Mosman, 
Sydney, growing in a dense caespitose mass at the base of à 
The cap was almost black with dense short fibres. 
There. were definite remains of a pale-brownish ring $ inch 
' white, 15°5 to 24 p, basidia and 
| ion. On rotting fallen trunk, Mum 
ush, near Casino, December, .1916. 
in young specimens we can find no "ze nd a ringe 
: Gre PISSA like a Tei ringless 4 millara. 2 
