Public Note:
PILEUS; 5 -6 cm diam., shallow-infundibuliform, glabrous, no indications of velar remnants, dry to slightly viscid, pure white when emerging from litter later turning creamy brown, surface finely matte and felted under lens. Margin entire, not radially marked. GILLS: pure white at first, becoming darker with age, crowded, rather thin, lamellae simple or very occasionally forked close to stipe, not forked near margin, lamellulae present, often in some semblance of a sequence, to 4 mm deep, freea. STIPE: short, stout, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1.2-1.7 cm diam., equal, solid, annulus absent, no velar remnants, white, finely subpruinose under lens, Flesh white, unchanging, rather granular. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: white, firm, unchanging, rather granular. TASTE: gills dully bitter, context slight!ly so. CHEMICAL CHARACTERS: Formalin on context - n.r. Phenol - slowly deep red, vinaceous. FeS04 - slowly faint salmon pink. Guaiacol on stipe base, slowly faint pink, becoming pallid salmon pink to pink-red. KOK on pileus - darkening slightly KOH on context. NH40H on pileus and context - n. r. HABITAT: gregarious in litter under Leptospermum scoparium. National Park Lake Rotoaira, 30/4/67, Coll. R.F.R. McNabb.
R.F.R. McNabb, 196X