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a true representation of the original, then it may still happen - 
that our species is that given by Cooke, but until this is 
reddish-brown, white above. Flesh showing pink at the base 
of the stem and under the cap. Spores pear-shaped, white, 
specimens apparently of this species 7 to 85x52 to T p. 
Narrabeen, April; Sydney, April and May; Hawkesbury 
River, April. 
CLITOCYBE. 
SECT. I.—DISCIFORMES. 
96. Clitocybe media, Peck.—Peck’s description (N. York 
s:—‘‘Pileus 
interspaces often venose; stem equal or nearly so, solid, elastic. 
coloured like or a little paler than the pileus; spores ellip- 
soid, 8x5 y. Pileus 5 to 19 cm. broad; stem 2:5 to 5 cm. 
long, 8 to 16 mm. thick. Gregarious or scattered. Mossy 
ground in woods.” s: 
We have not had access to his plates of the species. - The 
following South Australian plants approximate to the desct1p- 
I €.0-, the 
pallid-whitish stem. They differ from C. nebularis, Batsch, 
in their larger spores, and from C. clavipes, Pers., 1n the 
ieus up to 6 inches across, convex, then plane or a 
inc out (up 
ther attenuated in the middle, slightly fibrillose or fibro" 
v. Ste 
i pe 1$ inch high, slender to stou to ł inch thi 
