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streaked, solid, pallid whitish. Hardly any smell. Spores 

 8'5 to 10'4 x 5 fx. In a garden amongst grass, Beaumont,. 

 Adelaide, and on the Mount Lofty Range above Beaumont 

 amongst grass under a tree, June, 1917. (Miss Rennie, 

 Watercolour No. 3.) 



97. Clltocybe pinoph/la, Peck. — Peck's description (N. 

 York State Mus., Mus. Bull. 157, p. 63) is as follows: — 

 "Pileus fleshy, thin, convex becoming umbilicate or centrally 

 depressed, glabrous, pale-tan colour when moist, paler when 

 dry, odour and taste farinaceous ; lamellae moderately close, 

 subarcuate, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish; stem equal, 

 glabrous or slightly pruinose, coloured like the pileus; spores 

 broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 5 to 6x4 to 5 jm. Pileus 

 about 2*5 cm. broad; stem 2'5 to 5 cm. long, 2 to .4 mm. 

 thick. Gregarious. Under or near pine trees. Sometimes, 

 the pileus becomes striate on the margin in drying." 



Though the spores of the following Australian plants 

 growing under pines are slightly narrower and the gills seem 

 to have a greyish tint, it seems probable from Peck's descrip- 

 tion that they may be his species. Possibly they are better 

 referred to the Sect. Orbiformes. Pileus up to 2 inches across, 

 convex or plane, sometimes slightly depressed, thin, surface 

 matt, when moist greyish-brown and translucent, when dry 

 pallid brownish and opaque, edge turned in when young. 

 Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, close, pallid whitish then 

 pallid greyish. Stem up to 2 inches high, moderately slender,, 

 slightly attenuated downwards, slightly striate, often flat- 

 tened, pallid brownish or pallid greyish-brown, hollow. Very- 

 slight fragrant mealy odour. Spores 5'2 to 7 x 2*5 to 3 /x. 

 Amongst grass, apparently usually (always [?]) under Pinus. 

 Beaumont, near Adelaide, and National Park, S. Austr., 

 June, 1917; amongst pine needles under Pin-us, Craigie, 

 Ararat (E. J. Semmens, No. 146). 



98. Glitocybe dealbata, var. minor, Cooke: Handb., p. 50; 

 Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 173. — Small plants, growing on the 

 ground or attached to grass or fern roots at Milson Island, 

 Hawkesbury River, in April and November, seem to be 

 var. minor of this species. They were pure white, sometimes 

 with a yellowish tinge when old, convex and somewhat 

 irregular, with moderately distant gills. Occasional specimens 

 were truncate above, descending conically with deeply 

 decurrent gills. Spores elliptical, 5*5 to 6'6 x 3'4 jut. 



SECT. IV. CYATH I FORMES. 



99. Clitocybe cyathiformis, var. cinerascens, Fr. — We 

 have collected specimens of this variety at Mosman, Sydney , 



