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Pileus 3*7 ad 6'2 cm. latus, subconvexus et irregularis, mcdo 

 depressus, modo subgibbosus, glaber, hygrophanus, 

 pallido-cinereo-fuscus, siccatus pallidus et nitidus. 

 Lamellae adnatae, interdum subdecurrentes, angustae, 

 pallido-cinereae aut violaceo-cinereae, deinde cinereo- 

 fuscae. Stipes 3*7 ad 5 cm. latus, saepe distortus, cavus, 

 albidus. Habitus saepe caespitosus. Odor fragrans. 

 Spores 5-2-6-8 x 2-6-3-6 ju,. 



Coloured figures of this new species were prepared by the 

 Government Printer of New South Wales several years ago 

 for publication in the Agricultural Gazette of N.S. Wales. 

 Owing to the war such publication has had to be postponed, 

 but it is hoped that the plate may appear in that journal 

 during 1920. 



Cantharellus. 



101. Cantharellus lilacinus, n. sp. — Pileus up to 1 inch 

 in diameter, convex and edge turned in when young, then 

 slightly convex or even depressed, often deformed, surface 

 matt or almost floccose, of a brilliant artificial -looking pinky- 

 lilac. Gills markedly decurrent from the first, very distant, 

 often branching, many short, edge rather thick, white or witb 

 a lilac tint. Stem up to 1J inch long, 3/16ths inch thick, 

 moderately stout, equal, lilac above, a pale dull-yellow below. 

 Flesh thick, lilac above, that of the stem white. Spores 

 pear-shaped, 7 to 8'5 x 4'5 to 5'5 jot. Under Kuiizea bushes, 

 Gladesville, Sydney, June, 1916. (Miss Clarke, Watercolour 

 115.) 



Pileus ad 2'5 cm. latus, convexus, deinde subconvexus aut 

 depressus, saepe distortus, subfloccosus, rosaceo-lilacinus. 

 Lamellae decurrentes, distantes, saepe furcatae, margin- 

 ibus crassis, albae vel sublilacino-albae. Stipes ad 3' 7 

 cm. altus, '5 cm. crassus, equalis, sursum lilacinus, 

 deorsum pallido-croceus. Caro crassa, sursum lilacina, 

 in stipite alba. Sporae pyriformes, 7-8'5 x 4'5-5'5 /x. 

 (PI. xxix., fig. 1.) 



102. Cantharellus imperatae, n. sp. — The following 

 species, which we refer to the genus Cantharellus, though it 

 approaches Clitocybe, has occurred during successive years on 

 a patch of the grass Imperata arundinacea growing at Neutral 

 Bay, Sydney. It especially occurs after heavy rains when 

 the grass has been burnt and is attached in small gregarious 

 masses to the bases of the stems near the ground. Pileus 

 up to f inch or more in diameter, convex, subgibbous, then 

 plane or a little depressed, somewhat irregular, edge turned 

 in especially when young, surface matt, pale fawny-white in 

 centre with the periphery paler or nearly pure white, later 



