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158. Strobilomyces pallescens, Cooke and Mass. : Grev., 

 xviii., 5; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No.' 575, fig. 51 

 (Q'land). — The base of the stem often bulbous; flesh turning 

 bluish when cut, the blue later disappearing, flesh of stem 

 reddish on section ; upper part of stem sometimes tinted with 

 rosy purple; spores 17 to 22'5 x 6 to 8"5 ft, longitudinally 

 rugose; usually at the base of trunks, sometimes with pale 

 fawn-tinted mycelium attached to leaves, etc. Frequent at 

 Neutral Bay, Sydney, May; Chatswood (Miss Clarke, Water- 

 colour No. 148); Narrabeen, March; Milson Island, Hawkes- 

 bury River, March; Kendall, December. 



159. Strobilomyces floccopus, Host. Vahl : Ic. PI. Fl. 

 Dan., t. 1252; Sacc. : Syll., 4835; Cooke: Handb. Austr. 

 Fungi, No. 579 (Q'land). — The following, from the only 

 description available to us, that in Cooke's Handbook, seems 

 to be this species. We have not noticed, however, that the 

 veil is appendiculate as a ring, and the stem in our specimens 

 can hardly be called lacunose above. There is no reference 

 in Cooke's description as to whether the epispore is smooth or 

 rough (as in our specimens). S. velutipes, Cooke and Massee 

 (Cooke, No. 580), resembles our plants to some extent from 

 the description, but its spores are definitely stated to be 

 "even." Pileus up to 3 inches in diameter, almost hemi- 

 spherical, then convex, edge turned in and extending slightly 

 beyond the pores and sometimes showing fragments of the 

 veil, soft to the touch, covered with a cotton -wool -like 

 villosity with fine warts, sometimes presenting the appearance 

 of adpressed dark-brown imbricate cotton-wool -like scales, 

 dark sooty-brown to reddish-black, sometimes paler at the 

 periphery. Pores adnate or slightly rounded near the. stem 

 and gradually separating from it or tending to be slightly 

 decurrent, somewhat irregular, medium-sized, up to § inch 

 deep, creamy to pallid white, turning dark brown or blackish. 

 Flesh up to | inch thick, a thick cotton -wool -like layer on the 

 surface, the flesh and tubes at once turning red, then blackish, 

 when cut. Stem up to 4 inches high and f inch thick, equal 

 or sometimes attenuated upwards or downwards, with a 

 cotton-wool feeling from shaggy remains of the veil or finely 

 strigosely scaly or villose, in one specimen splitting and the 

 separated part revolute, in the upper part sometimes with a 

 network derived from the pores or breaking into areolate dark 

 portions showing the white flesh between, base sometimes 

 slightly bulbous, pallid to brownish and dark sooty-brown, 

 solid. Spores subspherical to broadly pear-shaped, rough 

 (mulberry-like), 7 to 10'4, 8"5 x 7 /lx . At the roots of trees 

 or stumps. Neutral Bay, April, 1915 ; Bradley Head, Sydney, 



