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the description and from Cooke’s plate, it is apparent that 
C. olivaceo-alba closely resembles C. radicata, the chief point 
of différence being the black base of the stem of the former. 
In May, 1915, we found specimens of C. radicata in the 
breeding true, whilst a form is a departure from type not 
necessarily breeding true, sometimes being merely a recog- 
nizable or an extreme variation in a variable species, some- 
s 
pauperate examples n these grounds we sink C. olivaceo- 
SECT. II.—-VESTIPEDES. 
121. Collybia confluens, Pers. Massee: Brit. Fung. 
Flora, iii., p. 130.— Plants collected by E. J. Semmens (No. 
40) amongst pine needles ut Craigie, near Ararat, Victoria, 
in June, 1917, seem indistinguishable from dried English 
specimens of this species received from Miss E. M. Wakefield. 
Spores 5 to 7 x3 p. , 
