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THE LARGER FUNGI 
Medium sized, 2 to 21 in. Pileus tawny olive to 
snuff brown, (tills tawny olive. Stem brownish. 
Spores 9 x o (i 137. C. (Ph.) ochruceo- 
fulvus. 
Medium sized, 1 to 24in. Pileus oehraeeous tawny. 
(tills pinkish buff to tawny olive. Stem 
oehraeeous tawny, fragile. Spores 11 to 12 x 
7 ii 138. C. (Ph.) fragittpe*. 
Large, up to 4Aiu. Pileus, gills, and stem 
orhrareous-tawny. Spores 9 x 5.5 fi 139. C. (Ph.) SUblargUS. 
Large, up to 3-1 in. Pilous whitish. Gills at first 
whitish then cinnamon. Stem short above ground 
with long conical root. Spores 9 to 10 x 5,5 p .. 140. C. (Ph.) radical vs. 
131. Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) lavendulensis Clel. (Medieval L., lavendula r 
lavender, in reference to the colour of the stem). — Pileus lj to 31in. (3 to 
8.7 cm.), glutinous, irregularly convex, finally somewhat upturned, pallid with 
brownish tints or pure white with tints of Pinkish Buff (xxix.) becoming darker. 
Gills slightly sinuate, moderately close, up to fin. (10 mm.) deep, when young 
very pale buff or paler than Wood Brown (xn.) with a slight violet tint, then 
Nayal Brown (xxix.), Pinkish Buff to Cinnamon Buff (xxrx.) and Oehraeeous 
Buff (XV.) or Oehraeeous Tawny (xv.) or near Antique Brown (III.). Stum 
2 to Sin. (5 to 7.5 cm.), moderately slender to stout (4 to Jin., 1.2 to l.S cm., 
thick), base usually bulbous (up to 1 to lliii., 2.5 to 3.7 cm,), fibrillose, solid, 
or occasionally hollow, whitish with tints of Pale Bluish Lavender (xxxvi.),. 
pallid below, with a broad suboentra] zone of brownish fibrils from the veil. Veil 
at first whitish. Flesh slightly lilac tinted in the stem or whitish or faintly buff- 
tinted. Smell slight. Spores oblique, one end more pointed, yellow-brown, 11 to 
13 x (i to 7.5 /*, occasionally 7.5 to 9 x 4.5 to 5 p. Under bushes. South Aus- 
tralia- -Mount Lofty, National Park, Kuitpo. April, June, July. 
Dried specimens have a pallid or scorched-looking pileus with bright oehraeeous 
tawny gills. 
132. Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) rotundisporus Clel. et Cheek (L., roiundus, 
round; Gr., spora, seed). — Pileus 1 to 12 A in . (2,5 to (i.2 cm.), convex with a trace 
of an umbo or even depressed in the centre, slightly viscid when moist, surface 
dull, near Honey Yellow (xxx.), Cream Buff (xxx.), Mustard Yellow (xvi.), 
Buff Yellow (iv.), Deep Colonial Buff (xxx.) or Isabella Colour (xxx.), streaked 
or tinted with Burn Blue (x.x.xiv.), Greenish Glaucous Blue (xui.), Rainier Blue 
(Nl.H.) or near Gnaphalium Green (XLVn.). Gills adnate, slightly or deeply 
sinuate, or emarginately adnexed, moderately close, ventricose, pallid or sometimes 
with a slight violet tint when young, becoming Isabella Colour (xxx.), Tawny 
Olive (xxix.), Sayal Brown (xxix.) or Snuff Brown (xxix.). Stem 2 to Jiu. 
(5 to 7.5 cm.), slender to rather stout, attenuated upwards, slightly striate, hollow, 
rather bulbous below, white or yellowish tinged with the colour of the pileus, 
with remains of a superior cobweb veil. Ye.il bluish when young. Flesh yellowish, 
sometimes with lilac or violet tints. Spores pear-shaped subspherical, smooth or 
slightly rough, (5.5 to 9 or rarely 10.5 x 5.5 to <5.5 /i, (1 to 9 p. South Australia — 
Mount Lofty, National Park, Kuitpo. New South Wales. March to August. 
133. Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) largus Fr. (L., largus, very large). — Pileus 
up to 9in. (22.5 cm.), convex, then irregular, then irregularly upturned, viscid 
when moist, dark tan, finally becoming scorched brown, very slightly fibrillose 
when young, then smooth. Gills deeply simtatoly adnexed, close, pallid brownish- 
white with a faint violet tinge, soon losing the violet to become pale brown, then 
more cinnamon, finally dark reddish-brown. Stem 31 in. (8.7 cm.), llin. (3.7 cm.), 
broad above, at first very stout with non-mar ginate bulb of 2in. (5 cm.), when 
adult the bulb not noticeable, root conical, solid, white tinged with the brown 
spores. Tough. Flesh white, Ilia. (3.7 cm.) thick. No smell. Spores oblique, 
one end pointed, yellow-brown, 19.4 to 12 x 5 g. Caespitose on the ground. South 
Australia — Mount Lofty. April. 
134. Cortinarius (Phlegmacium ?) lilacino-fulvus Clel. (L., Ulacinus, lilac 
coloured; fulvux, tawny — in reference to the tawny coloured stem with traces of 
lilac). — Pileus 21 to 3fin. ((5.2 to 8.7 cm.), irregularly convex, centre sometimes 
depressed and sometimes a depression round the edge, finally somewhat upturned, 
