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turning brown when bruised or old. Stem 1 to 2in. (1.8 to 5 cm.) or more, 
I to fin. ( (5 to 15 mm.) or more thick, usually central, stout to slender, pallid 
becoming brownish like the piieus, sometimes with fine punctate spots. Flesh 
thick, pallid turning yellowish brown. Spores elliptical, slightly oblique, dull 
brown to yellowish-brown, 7.5 to 11 x 4.5 to 5.8 g. South Australia — Under 
larch and other introduced trees, National Park. April, May, July. 
Abnormal specimens are occasionally found, one in the National Park showing, 
in the concavity of the cap, definite gills tending to anastomose. This is probably 
an introduced spiecies as shown by its association with exotic trees. It is common 
in parts of the National Park and can be recognised by its large brown pilous 
with the edge deeply turned in when young, the moderately decurrent gilis 
becoming yellow and then brown and tin 1 spore shape. 
278. Paxillus psammiphila (del. (Or., pxammox, sand; philox, loving). — Piieus 
34in. (8.7 cm,), thibelliform -dimidiate, somewhat fibrillose, becoming cracked, 
brown. Gills decurrent, close, anastomosing reticulately near the stem, watery 
brown. Stem short (about 1 in., 2.5 cm.), nearly lateral, slender, passing into a 
long narrow root surrounded by mycelial threads. Spores abundant, mummy- 
shaped, white, 13 to 13.5 x 4 /*. In sand. South Australia — Klliston (E.P.). 
August. 
[ From waterar/Uwr by Miss P. Clarke. 
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34 . — Phylloporus paradoxus (Kalch.) 
Reduced by J. 
Bres. (No. 279). 
Sydney. 
