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purplish-brown scales or to become blotchy bluish-green 
Buh yellow in the centre, when old a “embeds ore 
S ades of dull bluish-green, cuticle separable. Gulls adnate 
close, all equal, sometimes forked, sometimes slightly anas- 
tomosing at the stem, diminishing towards the stem and 
rounded externally, white or creamy. Stem up to 1} inch 
spores white, spherical, warty, 7 to 8'5 N 
, , i p: eutral Bay, 
Aydnoy, March and May, 1917; Narrabeen, March, 1916: 
orth Bridge, Sydney, July, 1916. (Miss Clarke, Water- 
April, 1917 (spores 6 to 7 p). 
114. Russula granulosa, Cooke: Handb., p. 332; Cooke: 
Th 038; Massee: Brit. Fung. Flora, nup tas 
e punctate brown spots on the stem, the cystidia, and the 
acrid taste seem to indicate with reasonable certainty that 
1} to 2) inches high, attenuated downwards, mealy-white 
with a tinge of ochre or with fine scattered punctate brown 
spots. Taste intensely peppery and somewhat bitter. Spores 
warty, 7 to 9 p; a few projecting acuminate cystidia, 
York State Mus., Bull. 116, p. 90) of this species is as fol- 
lows :—‘‘Pileus thin, broadly convex, becoming nearly plane 
: isci moist, widely tuberculose 
striate on the margin, dingy straw colour, brownish, yellowish- 
i i darker in the centre, 
tem equal or nearly so, even, glabrous, 
whitish, subglobose ; 00025-0003 
