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New South Wales. — We have a number of collections 

 from the Sydney district, April to November ; also specimens 

 from Mount Wilson and Kendall, May. Spore mass 

 sometimes pale ochraceous. Edge of pileus sometimes in- 

 curved. Spores oval, with a large "nucleus," 7 to 9x5 

 to 6 /a, usually 7'5 x 5'5 /x. In one collection made at 

 Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, in April, the pileus was 

 of a brilliant rufous-brown, the gills being also rufous 

 coloured. 



We have collected this "bronzed" form also at Mosman 

 in December, 1916, spores 6*2 x 4'2 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour 

 142; Herb., J. B. C, Form. Sp. 280), and in May, 1917, 

 at Mosman, Sydney, April, 1918, we found this species and 

 Arm ill aria mellea growing together at the base of a stump. 



Victoria. — Ararat (E. J. Semmens, No. 25), May, 1917. 



Colour tints noted : — Pileus, in the centre tints of 

 purplish-black (pi. 345, Ton 1), grading into, but greyer than, 

 Parma violet (pi. 200, Ton 4) ; grades of colour between dark 

 chocolate-brown (pi. 342, Ton 3), buff (pi. 309, Ton 4), mostly 

 browner than Mars yellow (pi. 316, Ton 4), with some yel- 

 lowish-tan colour (pi. 315, Tons 1 to 4) but browner; mineral- 

 brown (pi. 339, Ton 2), the centre darker than Ton 4; Kaiser 

 brown (Ridgway, pi. xiv.), light ochre-buff (pi. xv.), light 

 buff (pi. xv.), and tints of light Payne's grey (pi. xlix.) ; 

 shades of Payne's grey (pi. 356, Ton 4); grey (pi. 359) with 

 a violet tint. Stem, tints of Mars yellow (pi. 316, Ton 1) at 

 the base; tints of light Payne's grey (Ridgway, pi. xlix.). 



135. Pleurotus ostreatus, Jacq. Cooke: Illustrs., pis. 

 195 and 953; Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, ii., p. 371.— We 

 refer the following to this species : — Pileus up to 6 inches 

 broad and 4| inches from before backwards, convex but nearly 

 plane, pale smoky-brown, surface dull, edge slightly turned 

 in. Gills close, creamy-white, anastomosing below on the 

 short stout lateral almost obsolete stem. Spores elongated, 

 in the mass with a slight pinkish tinge, 8'5 to 10'5 x 3*5 /x. 

 Attached one above the other at the base of a stem of sassafras 

 ( Doryphora sassafras, Endl.). Hawkesbury River, Novem- 

 ber, 1916. The following is probably also this species, having 

 been found two years previously near the same spot. These 

 latter plants grew singly on a fallen trunk : — Pileus up to 

 2\ inches in diameter, convex and indented on the side nearest 

 the stem, of a pallid stone-colour or greyish-brown, smooth 

 but finely-punctate looking, slightly sticky, edge turned in. 

 Stem nearly lateral, short (^ inch or under), stout, whitish 

 to somewhat smoky. Gills moderately close, creamy-coloured, 

 tendency to fork, some short, deeply decurrent on to the 

 stem, where they reticulate. Flesh thick, white, rather 





