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STROBILOMYCES. 
158. Strobilomyces pallescens, Cooke and Mass.: Grev., 
xvi iii., " Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 515, fg. 51. 
colour No. 148); yim Nisi: Milson Island, Hawkes- 
bury River, March ; Kendall, December 
159. Strobildmuces floccopus, Rost. Vahl: Ic.’ Pl. Fh. 
Dan., t. 1252; Sace.: Syll, 4835; Cooke: Handb. Austr. 
Fungi, No. 579 (Q'land). —The following, from the only 
gutsy! available to us, that in Cooke's Handbook, seems 
to be this species. We have not noticed, however, that the 
Pileus up to 3 inches in diameter, almost hemi- 
spherical, then convex, edge turned in and extending slightly 
beyond the pores and sometimes showing fragments of the 
veil, soft to the iain covered with a cotton-wool-like 
periphery. Pores adnate or slightly ro unded near the — 
and gradually separating from it or tending t D be t finch 
dec ecurrent, so eee irreg lar, medium- sized, 
‘surface, p flesh and tokid s at once turning zai | then epe 
when cut. Stem up to 4 inches high and 2 inch thick, I 
or sometimes attenuated upwards or eds wia 
