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distant, many short, sometimes forked and connected by- 

 numerous transverse wrinkles, white. Stem 2|- inches high, 

 a little wavy, becoming attenuated at the base, hollow, rather 

 cartilaginous, white with a slight brown tint below. Spores 

 7 to 8'5 x 3"8 /a. Subcaespitose amongst dead wood at the 

 base of a log. Kendall, May, 1917. (Miss Clarke, Water- 

 colour 159; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp. 282.) 



Pileus 2*5 cm. latus, irregulariter convexus, deinde expansus, 

 primum margine incurvato, substriatus, semitranslucidus 

 et subcinereo-albidus, siccatus albus. Lamellae distantes, 

 interdum furcatae, venis frequentibus connect antibus, 

 albae. Stipes 6 '2 cm. altus, deorsum attenuatus, cavus, 

 albus, deorsum subfusco-albidus. Sporae 7-8*5 x 3'8 ja. 

 Plantae subcaespitosae. 



We have given the specific name "corrugatus" to the 

 species on account of the wrinkled appearance presented by 

 the intercommunicating veins. (PI. xxix., fig. 2.) 



105. Cantharellus foliolum, Kalch. : Grev., ix., 134; 

 Sace : Syll., v., 1956; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi., No. 

 414 (Q.). — We have specimens, apparently of this species, 

 taken on fallen sticks and twigs at Mosman, Sydney, in April 

 and November. The plants are small and pure white, show- 

 ing a greyish tinge in drying. The gills are very irregular. 

 Spores pear-shaped, 12 to 13'8 x 7*2 fx. (Herb., J. B. C, 

 Form Sp. 88.) 



Lactarius. 



subgenus i. piperites. 



106. Lactarius (Piperites) stenophyllus, Berk. : Fl. 

 Tasm., ii., p. 248, t. 181, fig. 8; Cooke: Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 388. — A comparison of the following specimens 

 with Berkeley's rather crude figure of this species leaves no 

 doubt in our minds that they are one and the same. Before 

 referring to Berkeley's description, we had noted the re- 

 semblance to L. instdsus. Our plants we describe as follows : — 

 Pileus up to 3 inches across, convex, often irregular, usually 

 markedly infundibuliform, pale yellowish-brown, often some- 

 what zoned, slightly viscid when moist, edge markedly 

 incurved when young. Gills very crowded, adnate to slightly 

 decurrent, creamy-yellow becoming dirty yellowish-brown, 

 apparently not pruinose from the spores. Stem up to 

 1^ inches high, moderately slender to stout, slightly expanded 

 above, white, rather mealy. Exuding copious white milk 

 from the gills on the slightest injury and juice from the 

 stem. Instantly peppery. Spores warty, spherical, 5 jm. 

 Under trees, Ryde, Sydney, May, 1916. (Miss Clarke, 

 Watercolour 105.) 



