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ones, pure white, becoming darker and pruinose from the 

 spores. Stem 1 to 1J inch high, stout, sometimes attenu- 

 ated downwards, solid, reddish-brown to pinkish-buff. Sub- 

 stance white. Taste mild, occasionally slightly peppery. 

 Spores elliptical, warty, 8'5 to 10'8 x 7 to 8'5 jm, occasionally 

 more spherical. Elongated cystidia, 26 /a long, seen in two 

 collections. On the ground under trees, Ryde, Sydney, May; 

 The Spit and Bradley Head, Sydney, June; Lane Cove River, 

 Sydney, May; Hawkesbury River, April, June; Terrigal, 

 June. (Miss Margaret L. Flockton, Watercolour A.) 



We have been unable to find any figure or description 

 agreeing with this species, and so describe it as new. We 

 have named it in honour of Miss Flockton, who has admirably 

 delineated it, and who for many years has taken a special 

 interest in fungi. 



Pileus ad 10 cm. latus, irregulariter convexus, deinde 

 depressus, pallido-rosaceo-cervinus ad luteo-aurantiacus. 

 Lamellae adnatae, subdistantes ad distantes, interdum 

 bifurcatae, albae deinde pallidae et pruinosae. Stipes 

 2'5 ad 4 cm. altus, robustus, interdum deorsum attenu- 

 atus, solidus, rubro-subfuscus ad rosaceo-cervinus. Caro 

 alba. Insipidus, interdum subpiperatus. Sporae ellip- 

 ticae, verrucosae, 8'5-10"8 x 7-8*5 jut. Interdum cystidiis. 



As indicated under Clitocybe paraditopa (No. 100), it 

 is hoped that coloured plates of this species, with others, 

 may be published in the Agricultural Gazette of N.S. Wales 

 in 1920. - 



111. Russula Mariae, Peck. — Peck's description (N. York 

 State Mus., Bull. 75, 1903 (1904), p. 29, pi. 85, figs. 1-8) of 

 this species is as follows : — "Pileus at first nearly hemispheric, 

 soon broadly convex, nearly plane or centrally depressed, 

 pruinose and minutely pulverulent, dark crimson or purplish, 

 sometimes darker in the centre than on the margin, rarely 

 striate on the margin when old, flesh white, pinkish under 

 the cuticle, taste mild ; lamellae moderately close, adnate, 

 white when young, pale yellow when old; stem equal, solid 

 or slightly spongy in the centre, coloured like or a little paler 

 than the pileus, usually white at the top and bottom, rarely 

 entirely white; spores pale yellow, globose, '003 of an inch 

 broad." From this description and from the coloured 

 figures given by Peck, we think there is little doubt that the 

 common mild-tasted purple-capped Russula with a rosy-pink 

 stem found in the Sydney district is R. Mariae. Perhaps the 

 specimens of R. purpurea, Gill. (R. Queletii, var. purpurea, 

 vide Massee), recorded by Cooke (No. 395) for Victoria are 

 also this species, but R. purpurea is an acrid species. 



