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found growing usually whitish to dingy whitish or pale huffy white (Cartridge 
Buff, xxx.) or creamy white and opaque, smooth, a little translucent when very 
moist, when gathered "becoming Ochraceous Buff (xV.) round the edge and even 
browner in the centre, herbarium specimens drying a dingy biscuit colour. Gills 
aduate to sometimes slightly decurrent, close, narrow, whitish, then creamy-white. 
Stem short, 1 to tin. (1.2 to 2.5 cm.), central to excentric or occasionally almost 
lateral from the position in which it may have grown, similarly often bent, slender 
or rather stout, equal or slightly attenuated downwards, pruinose, tough, hollow 
above, the colour of the pilous. Flesh thin, equally attenuated outwards. Spores 
nearly subspherical, 3.5 to 4 x 2.5 to 2.8 /i, 4 /i. Sometimes oaespitose. Attached 
by Huffy-white mycelium to the undersides of thick sheets of fallen or stripped 
bark and fallen wood on the ground beneath Fuealypts, or round the base of 
stumps, the pilei often emerging with difficulty or only found after removing 
superjacent litter. South Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park, Baker’s Gully 
near Clarendon, Encounter Bay. New South Wales. May to August. The 
specific name has reference to the frequency with which the pilaus is often more 
or less hidden under bark and debris. 
44. Clitocybe campestris Gel. (L., mmpextris, of fields). — Pileus up to 1 in. 
(2.5 ciu.) in diameter, slightly convex, irregular with a depressed centre, slightly 
shiny, the edge turned in when young, pallid stone colour and slightly mottled, 
faintly obscured by a minute white pile (near Avellaneous, XL.; Light Buff, xv.). 
Gills aduate, close, rather thick, rarely forking or with buttresses, pallid brownish 
white (Avellaneous, xl.; near Vinaeaous Buff, XL.). Stem up to Jin. (1.8 cm.) 
high, stout, sometimes flattened, slightly fibrous, tough, hollow, mealy, pallid or 
the colour of the pileus. Flesh white. Smell strong. Spores 4.5 to 4.8 x 2.2 to 
3.2 fj.. In grassy places. South Australia — Beaumont Common, Eagle-on-the-TIill, 
Noarlunga Hill. May, June. (Figure 14 B.) 
A small species, somewhat resembling small specimens of Hebcloma hie male 
Bros., characterised by its pallid buff pileus with darker tints of avellaneous and 
wood brown appearing as if under the surface, the avellaneous gills, short; stem 
and occurence in grassy places. 
[44a. Clitocybe dealbatus (Sow.) Fr. var. minor Cke. (L., tlealbaltis, white- 
washed; minor, smaller). — The specimens figured and referred to this species 
were found on Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, in November. 
They were pure white with occasionally a yellowish tinge, convex, rather irregular, 
with the gills moderately distant. In some specimens, the plant appeared as if 
truncate above, descending obconically with deeply decurreut gills. Spores 5.5 
to (i.fi x 3.4 g. On tin* ground or attached to fern or grass roots. New South 
Wales — Milson Island. (Plate 111. Middle right figure.)] 
[14b. Clitocybe infundibuliformis (Sehaeff.) Fr.? (L., infundibuliformin, funnel- 
shaped). Pileus 1 to 2in. (2.5 to 5 cm.) or more, smooth but finely fibrillose 
under a lens, moderately umbilieate, edge incurved, when dry shining and creamy- 
white, on moistening reviving and becoming a rich waxy-yellow in pileus aiid 
stem. Gills decurreut, close, creamy white. Stem 21iii. (fi.2 cm,), rather 
fibrillose, markedly hollow, creamy -white, when moist waxy yellow. Mush roomy 
smell. Sometimes subcacspitose, amongst leaves, attached by much white 
mycelium. Spores 4.2 x 2.5 g. New South Wales— Lisarow, The Oaks. May, 
June. (Plate II. Central figure.) 
This New South Wales species resembles closely Cooke’s Illustration of C. 
infuMlibvUf<)))iui.s, but differs more particularly in the markedly hollow stem and 
the smaller spores.] 
B. Pileus fleshy-membranaceous, truly hygrophanous. 
45. Clitocybe paraditopa Gel. et Chech— Pileus 11 to 2$in. (3.7 to 6.2 cm.), 
slightly convex and irregular, the centre sometimes slightly depressed or almost 
infnndibulifonn, sometimes obscurely gibbous, smooth, edge incurved when 
young, when moist a shining moist-looking pallid stone-grev to brownish, drying 
from the centre which becomes pallid fawn and finally pallid whitish and shining) 
sometimes when dry dingy grevish-white. Gills aduate, sometimes somewhat 
decurreut, moderately crowded to moderately distant, rather thick, narrow, French 
grey, dark grey or violet grey, becoming dark greyish-brown. Stem 1-J to 2iu. 
(3.7 to 5 cm.), moderately stout or slender, often compressed and deformed, 
slightly fi brouslv streaked. South Australia — Adelaide suburbs, Glen Osmond) 
Mount Lofty, Kijichina, Kalangadoo (K.E.), New South Wales. Victoria— 
Ararat. May, June. (Plate II. Right and left figures.) 
