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THE LARGER FUXGI 
Spores blackish or fuscous. Pileus covered with imbricate scales. 
STROBILOMYCES Berk. 
(Gr., strohilos, a tir cone; mylces, a fungus.) 
“Pileus fleshy, Arm, floccose, clothed with large imbricate scales. Stem firm, 
rigid, woolly or scaly, annulate. Tubes white, then greyish bistre, adinate, long, 
orifices of pores concolorous, angular. Flesh floccose, not putrescent, fiim, light, 
becoming reddish or bluish, grey and finally' blackish on exposuie to the an. 
Spores blackish purple, subglobose, verrucose. Cystidia present. Growing on 
tlie ground.” — Rea. 
I /'’corn watercolour hii Mixts P. Clarke. 
Figure 37. — Strohilomj/ceii palle,tcen.e Cke. et Mass. 
(No. 281). Sydney. 
281. Strobilomyces pallescens Oke. et Mass. (Tj., pallescens, growing pale). — 
At first globose with the pileus constricted round the stem, villous floccose 
with felted fibrils aggregating to form early scales, the veil rupturing to form 
a sleeve on the stem ami finally ragged dirty-straw-coloured streamers round the 
edge of the pileus, pale flesh-coloured to ()ale blush. Later pileus to Min. 
(7.5 cm.), convex, shaggy from raised scale-like or polygonal warts (resembling 
a x>ineappl®)) some Mn. (1.2 cm.) in diameter, the ti()S dirty brownisli, the bases 
almost crimson-lake, tlie fissures between pale straw'-coloured. llymenial surface 
convex, tubes almost free, lin. (1.2 cm.) deep, attenuated each way, orifices 
rather large and angular, briglit y'cllow to yellowish brown becoming dark. Stem 
up to fun. (15 cm.), bulbous, esi)ecially when young, attenuated to -Hn. (1.2 cm.) 
in the middle, solid, at first with ring-like remains of the veil, later smootlR 
