OP SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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Pilous to 33 m., fibrillose-matt, yellowish brown. 
Gills actuate with a slight sulcus, close, yellowish- 
brown. Stem stout, whitish. Spores 9 x 4.5 y 
In sand 169. 77. himellu-oufcrtum. 
I. “Furnished with a eortina from the manifest veil, by which the pileus is 
often superficially silky round the margin.’’ — Rea, 
166. Hebeloma mesophaeum Fr. (Gr., mesas, middle; phaion, dusky). — Pileus 
1 to lUn. (2.5 to 3.7 cm.), slightly convex, subunibonate, surface matt to sub 
fibrillose, when moist slightly sticky, near Hayal Brown (x.xix.), when dry 
Cinnamon Buff (xxix.), edge pale buff, when young with a thin upturned paler 
rim and fibrillose remains of the veil. Gills almost adnate to sinuately adnexed. 
sometimes with a decurrent tooth, moderately close, slightly ventrieose, edges 
minutely serrate, at first pallid greyish buff or pallid cinnamon buff, becoming 
near Sayal Brown (xxix.) and Snuff Brown (xxix.). Stem ,ljin. (3.7 cm.). 
[From watercolour by Miss ,7. Buxton.. 
Figure 21. — Tlrbcl/nna mesophficuM Fr. (No. 166). Under Firms, Caroline 
State Forest, Mount Gambier. 
slender to moderately stout, equal or attenuated downwards, fibrillose, brittle, 
slightly hollow, flesh like that of the pilous or slightly different, pallid with a 
Imffy brownish tint. Spores obliquely elliptical, dull brown, 9 to 10 x 5 to 5.5 y. 
On the ground under Pi mux radiata Don. (F. i'lixignis Dough). South Australia — - 
Mount Burr and Caroline State Forests (S.E.). May. (Figure 21.) 
167. Hebeloma mesophaeum Fr. var. minus Cke. (L., minus, smaller). Pileus 
up to lin. (2.5 cm.), convex, umbonate, then nearly plane, somewhat subconical 
when young with the edge turned in and sometimes with a distinct flimsv ceil 
or a few cobweb like fibrils on the stem, viscid when moist, surface matt, round 
the edge near Drab (xi.vi.), paler still at the periphery, in the centre darker 
near Hair Brown (XLVl.) or in old specimens very dark near Ohnetura Brown 
(xlvi.). Gills sinuate, moderately close, pallid and nearly white, then dingy 
pale watery brownish. Stem 1 | to 2in. (3.1 to 5 cm.),' moderately slender, 
slightly mealy or fibrillose, slightly hollow, whitish. No appreciable" taste or 
smell. Spores oblique, dull brown, S to 11 x 4.8 to 6.5 y. No evstidia seen. 
On the ground under Pinus. South Australia — Hindmnrsh Square' (Adelaide), 
Mount Lofty. .Tunc to August. New South Wales — Mount Wilson. 
