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thick, usually attenuated downwards, fibrillose striate, marked with gill lines 
above, solid, at first pallid with rusty stains, then tinted with Ochraceous Tawny 
(xv.). Ring marked when young, median, pallid then brownish. Flesh white, 
a little reddish under the cuticle, when old becoming brownish, especially in the 
stem. Flesh of stem continuous with that of the pileus. Spores subspherical, 
smooth, 7 to 7.5 p, 9 x 7.5 p. Subeaespitose, sometimes in imperfect rings at 
or near the bases of Eucalyptus trunks. South Australia — Mount Lofty, near 
Clarendon, Encounter Bay. May, July. (Figure 8.) 
This species may be recognised by the large size, stout build, the colour of the 
pileus, the sinuate light pinkish cinnamon gills becoming spotted and the evidence 
of a ring. The species is often placed under Triehoioma as T. colossa, as the ring 
is often absent in the adult, condition. The Australian T. coafctata is probably 
the ringless form of the Australian variety of A. colossa. 
32. Armillaria mellea (Valil.) Fr. (L., mel, honey). — Fileus 2 to 5in. (5 to 
8.7 cm.), irregularly convex, often becoming upturned at the edge, sometimes 
Figure 9 . — Armillarki nu-llea (Vahl.) Fr. (No. 32). Waitpinga. 
Reduced to 
repanil, rim sometimes lacerated, subumbonate to umbonat'e, surface dull usually 
beset with scattered minute black papillae or dark librils or punctate with darker 
squamules, edge striate when moist, slightly hygroplianous, Buckthorn Brown to 
Dresden Brown (xV.), when dry Cinnamon Bull to Clay Colour (xxix.), some- 
times lionet’ Colour (xxx.). Gills adnato-deeurrent, sometimes with a slight 
sinuation, 3/16 to gin. (4.5 to 10 mm.) deep, moderately close, white or pallid 
fleshy to pallid yellowish cinnamon. Stem 24 to Sin. (0 to 20 cm.) high, slender 
to st<rat (} to lin., 6 to 25 mm.), equal or attenuated downwards, fibrillose, 
usually mealy tibrillose above the ring, Stull ed or with a tendency to be slightly 
hollow, pallid, sometimes with a sage-coloured mouldy appearance below. Ring 
usually definite, becoming fragmentary, narrow, some distance (about (in., 
1.2 cm.) from the pileus. Flesh whitish, rather thin, attenuated outwards, that 
of the fleshy tough stem continuous with the flesh of the pileus. Spores elliptical, 
oblique, 8 to 11 x 5.5 to 8 p. Single to densely eaespitose at or near the bases 
of trees, shrubs ami stumps to which the fruiting bodies are attached by mycelial 
