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in March, May, and June, and at Lisarow in May. Reticu- 

 lations have not been noted on the stems. The description of 

 our plants is as follows: — Pileus up to 1 J inch in diameter, 

 very thin, translucent, pale greyish-brown, striate, sometimes 

 somewhat rugose, umbilicate to infundibuliform. Gills moder- 

 ately crowded, deeply decurrent, branching and anastomosing. 

 Stem up to 2J inches high, tubular, and the hollow centre 

 sometimes apparently communicating with the funnel-shaped 

 cap, base slightly bulbous, of the same colour as the cap but 

 browner below. Spores pear-shaped with a large vesicle, 

 7 to 8*5 x 4'2 to 5 /la. Under trees, sometimes on rotten wood. 

 (D. I. Q., Watercolour 38.) 



SECT. V. ORBIFORMES. 



100. Clitocybe 'paraditoya, n. sp. — We have met with 

 the following species of Clitocybe on several occasions in New 

 South Wales and South Australia. It has usually been 

 found on or in the neighbourhood of cow-dung, and, if this 

 habit is a necessity, is evidently an introduced species. From 

 the descriptions and from Cooke's illustrations of C . ditopa, 

 Fr., it seems close to this species but, from comparison with 

 dried plants kindly forwarded to us from England by Miss 

 E. M. Wakefield, is clearly not identical with it. It also 

 seems, from the description, to be close to C. subditopoda, 

 Peck. Its outstanding feature is a strong scent of wattle 

 blossom, noticeable even at a distance as when walking near. 

 Pileus 1| to 2J inches in diameter, slightly convex and 

 irregular, the centre sometimes slightly depressed or almost 

 infundibuliform, sometimes obscurely gibbous, smooth, when 

 moist shining moist-looking pallid stony-grey to brownish, 

 drying from the centre, which become pallid fawn, and finally 

 pallid w T hite and shining, sometimes when dry dingy greyish- 

 white, edge incurved when young. Gills moderately crowded 

 to moderately distant, adnate, sometimes somewhat decur- 

 rent, rather thick, narrow, French grey, dark grey or violet - 

 grey, becoming dark greyish-brown. Stem 1| to 2 inches 

 high, moderately stout or slender, often compressed and 

 deformed, slightly fibrously streaked, rigid, usually markedly 

 hollow, occasionally when young nearly stuffed, whitish. 

 Often densely caespitose and deformed, on bare rich soil or 

 under Casuarin-a twigs, etc., in or near cow-dung or in pas- 

 tures. Strong scent of wattle blossom (Acacia pycnantha or 

 suaveolens). Spores with one end a little pointed, 5'2 to 

 6*8 x 2'6 to 3"6 fi. Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, April 

 to July; The Oaks, N.S. Wales, June, 1914; Adelaide, July, 

 1914 (spores 7 x 3'8 jul). (Miss Clarke, Watercolour 79; 

 D. I. C, Watercolours 50 and 51.) 



