Public Note:
Same as #19. PILEUS: infundibuliform at maturity, 5-7.5 cm diam., slightly viscid in wet weather, otherwise dry, white to pallid cream at first when still half buried in litter, becoming stained brown in areas, yellowish-brown at maturity or remaining creamy white, no indications of velar remnants. Margins entire, not radially ridged or marked. GILLS: more or less decurrent, white at first, becoming pallid creamy white at maturity, not or only slightly and v. occasionally stained, thick, crowded, lamellae simple or sometimes forked close to stipe, notforked hear margins, to 5 mm deep, lamellulae present, numerous, sometimes in some semblence of a sequence. STIPE: short, stout, 1.5-2.5 cm long, more or less equal to tapering hasally, 0.7-2 cm diam., dry, annulus absent, no indications of annular remnants, white to dingy white, sometimes faintly stained brownish, faintly longit. innately stretched reticulate, extremely finely felted under lens, almost glabrous. Flesh solid, white, unchanging. CONTEXT: white, unchanging, rather coarse. SMEL : TASTE; gills moderately acrid, context not distinctive SPORE PRINT; Crawshay (B)-C when fresh. CHEMICAL CHARACTERS; Formalin on context - n.r. Phenol - slowly deep red, vinaceous. FeS04 - immed faint salmon pink. Guaiacol on stipe base - immed dull orange. KOH on pileus - darkening on brown areas, no reaction on cream. KOH on context - n.r. NH40H on pileus - Perhaps slight darkening on brown areas on context - n.r. HABITAT: Gregarious under Leptospermum ericoides, Henderson Vallev. Sharp’s Bush, 21/6/67, Coll. R.F.R. McNabb.
R.F.R. McNabb, 196X