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ones, pure white, becoming darker and pruinose from the 
Spores. Stem 1 to 14 inch high, stout, sometimes attenu- 
ated downwards, solid, reddish-brown to pinkish-buff. Sub- 
Stance white. te mild, occasionally slightly peppery. 
Spores elliptical, warty, 8°5 to 10'8x 7 to 85 p, occasionally 
more spherical. Elongated cystidia, 26 w long, seen in two 
collections. On the ground under trees, Ryde, Sydney, May; 
e Spit and Bradley Head, Sydney, June; Lane Cove River, 
Sydney, May; Hawkesbury River, April, June; Terrigal, 
June. (Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Watercolour A.) 
We have been unable to find any figure or description 
agreeing with this. species, and so describe it as new. We 
have named it in honour of Miss Flockton, who has admirably 
delineated it, and who for many years has taken a special 
interest in fungi. 
Pileus ad 10 cm. latus, irregulariter convexus, deinde 
depressus, pallido-rosaceo-cervinus ad luteo-aurantiacus. 
Lamellae adnatae, subdistantes ad distantes, interdum 
bifurcatae, albae deinde pallidae et pruinosae. Stipes 
25 ad 4 cm. altus, robustus, interdum deorsum attenu- 
atus, solidus, rubro-subfuscus ad rosaceo-cervinus. Caro 
alba. Insipidus, interdum subpiperatus. Sporae ellip- 
ticae, verrucosae, 85-108 x 7-8°5 p. Interdum cystidiis. 
; _ As indicated under Clitocybe paraditopa (No. 100), it 
18 hoped that coloured plates of this species, with others, 
eA bud published in the Agricultural Gazette of N.S. Wales 
in 
111. Russula Mariae, Peck.—Peck’s description (N. York 
State Mus., Bull. 75, 1903 (1904), p. 29, pl. 85, figs. 1-8) of 
common mild-tasted purple-capped Russula with a rosy-pink 
stem found in the Sydney district is R. Mariae. Perhaps the 
Specimens of R. purpurea, Gill. (R. Queletii, va . purpurea, 
"ide Massee), recorded by Cooke (No. 395) for Victoria are 
also this species, but 7e. purpurea is an acrid species. 
