288 
T a an i pe a He 
New South Wales.—We have a number of collections ~ 
from the Sydney district, April to November; also specimens 
from Mount Wilson and Kendall, May. Spore mass 
sometimes pale ochraceous. Edge of pileus sometimes in- 
curved. Spores oval, with a large ‘‘nucleus,’’ 7 9x5 
to 6 p, usually 75x55 p. In one collection made at 
Y Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, in April, the pileus was 
of a brilliant rufous-brown, the gills being also rufous 
coloured. 
We have collected this */bronzed" form also at Mosman 
' chocolate-brown (pl. 342, Ton 3), buff (pl. 309, Ton 4), mostly 
th 
brown (pl. 339, Ton 2), the centre darker than Ton 4; Kaiser 
. Pleurotus ostreatus, Jacq. Cooke: Illustrs., pls. 
M it. Fung. Flora, ii, p. TLS 
refer the following to this species:—Pileus up to 6 inches 
n the mass with a slight pinkish tinge, 85 to 10:5 x35 p- 
Attached one above the other at the base of a stem of sassafras 
(Doryphora sassafras, Endl.). Hawkesbury River, Novem- 
ber, 1916. The following is probably also this species, gie 
the stem, of a pallid stone-colour or greyish-brown, smoe 
but finely-punctate looking, 
; : : ; - — mpky. Gills moderately 
_ Stem, where they reti 
