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at the margin ; stem equal, striate, pallid ; tubes free, shortened 
towards the stem and towards the margin, very long in the middle; 
pores rather large, angular, yellowish ; flesh turning blue when 
broken, soon whitish. Spores tawny, longitudinally rugose, 18- 
20 x 8 /*. 
At the base of trees. Queensland. (Fig. 51). 
576. Strobilomyces rufescens. Cke. 4" Mass. Grev. 
xviii., 5. 
Wholly rufescent. Pileus hemispherical (3-4 in. diam.), very 
obtuse, densely covered with imbricated conical warts, the apices 
recurved and evanescent ; margin fringed with the broad veil ; 
stem rather bulbous, elongated (6-7 in. long, 1 in. thick), pallid 
above, rufescent below, striate, solid; tubes free, shortened behind; 
pores angular, rather large, becoming tawny. Spores brown, 18- 
20 x 9 p. 
At the base of trees. Queensland. 
577. Strobilomyces fasciculatus. Cooke Grev. xx., 4. 
Pileus hemispherical, convex, reddish-brown (8-10 c.m. diam.), 
squamnlose, the fascicles of strap-like seales parting into large 
pentagonal areolar. Stem nearly equal (8-10 c.m. long, 1^ c.m. 
thick), even, paler. Tubes elongated, free behind, mouths angular, 
yellowish. Spores elliptical, pale brown, 10-12 x 5 /a, flesh turning 
bluish when cut. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
578. Strobilomyces ligulatus. Cooke. Grev. xx., 4. 
Pileus convex, hemispherical (10 c.m. diam.), brown, clad with 
darker ligulate scales composed of parallel threads (7-8 m.tn. 
long), often recurved at the extremity. Stem (12 c.m. long, 2 
c.m. thick) striate, with a few scattered fibrils, paler, rather 
attenuated upwards. Tubes long, shortened behind, angular, 
yellowish or with a reddish tint. Spores brown, elliptical, 
20 x 10 fi. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
579. Strobilomyces floccopus. Rost. Vahl. FI. Dan. t. 1252. 
Sacc. Syll. 4835. 
Cinereous, at length turning black ; pileus pulvinate, soft, with 
an areolately fasciculate tomentum, broken up into squarrose 
scales, veil silky, thick, appendiculate as a ring ; stem stout, 
tomentose, umber below, lacunose above ; tubes abbreviated behind, 
pores large, greyish white ; spores globose, brownish, 9 y diam., 
shortly apiculate. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
580. Strobilomyces velutipes. Cke. <?• Mass. Grev. xviii., 5. 
Turning black. Pileus pulvinate, obtuse, becoming flattened 
(2-3 in. diam.), imbricated with thick, obtuse, irregular warts, 
margin crenulate with the veil; stem equal, velvety, sulcate above 
