Public Note:
PILEUS: 10.5 cm diam., deeply infundibuliform, margin rather undulate, glabrous, no indication of velar remnants, viscid, difficult to tell surface but possibly subpruinose under lens, pallid greyish-brown with whitish undertones (c 5D3-C3 but nothing in book a good match). Margins entire, rather incurved not radially marked. GILLS: dull creamy white to almost dull pallid -clay, mod. thin, crowded, not discoloured, lamellae simple or forked at any point between stipe and margin, lamellulae occasionally present but in no particular sequence, to 5 mm deep. STIPE: large, stout, to 6.5 cm long, more or less equal, 3-3.5 cm diam., dry, annulus absent, no indications of velar remnants, finely velutinate to subvelutinate under lens, solid. Flesh white to brownish white, rather granular, unchanging. CONTEXT OF PILEUS: brownish-white, unchanging, rather granular. SMELL: not noted. TASTE: gills and context - not dsitinctive. SPORE PRINT: not obtained. CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Formalin on context - n.r. Phenol - deep red, vinaceous. FeS04 - faint salmon pink. Guaiacol on stipe base - slowly faint pink, then salmon pink. KOH on pileus - slight darkening KOH on context - n.r. NH40H on pileus and context - n.r. HABITAT: solitary under Nothofagus solandri, national Park, Chateau, 1/5/67, 35mm Photo. [added in pencil ...] c.f. R. griseobrunnea. Pilocystidia present, large scattered of R. griseobrunnea type, pleucocystidia projecting, spores reticulate, finely ornamented, trama not bilateral.
R.F.R. McNabb, 196X