Pileus up to 1.5 in. (3.7 cm.) in diameter, thin, the edge turned in when young, irregularly convex with an umbilicus, then moderately depressed, sometimes gibbous in the depressed centre, the edge faintly striate, innately silky-fibrillose, when moist near Bufly Brown (pi. xl.) and moist looking, waxy-semitranslucent, markedly hygrophanous, drying to pallid or dingy whitish with a buffy tint, the drying commencing from near the centre, the centre sometimes remaining for a while buffy brown shading to dark brown. Gills moderately decurrent, close, narrow, many short, edges rather thick, sometimes with venose buttresses between the gills, pallid greyish-brown, much paler than Drab (pi. xlvii.). Stem up to 1-4- in. (3.7 cm.) high, usually slender, sometimes flattened, fibrillose, extensively hollow, coloured like the pileus but paler. Flesh under the pileus moist-looking brown, in the centre of the pileus white, in the stem pale brown. Spores narrow, 5*5 to 6X2*2 /a. Cystidia not seen. Slight phosphorus-like smell. Amongst dead leaves and sticks. S.A.— National Park, July. National Park, July. Resembles C. paradilopa, Cll. et Cheel but. lacks the strong wattle scent and is less robust. The specific name refers to the semi-translucent waxy (or soapy) appearance of the brownish pileus when moist.

Pileus 3 ins. (7.5 cm.) in diameter, infundi buliform, matt, reddish-fawn. Gills adnate, moderately close, pallid becoming spotted and discoloured brown. Stem short, 3/4 in. (18 mm.) high, stout (9/16 in., (16 mm.), expanded towards the pileus, attenuated downwards, solid, colour of the pileus, milk white. Taste mild. Spores slightly angular, 8 um. S.A.—Mount Lofty, June. 1927. In general appearance rather resembling Russula floctonae, Cld. et Cheel From its resemblance to this Russula we have named it after Miss Flockton’s niece, Miss Phyllis Clarke, to whom we have been so much indebted for many admirable watercolour drawings of New South Wales agarics.

Laterally attached at. the apex. Pileus up to 1/2 in. (1.2 cm.) in diameter, convex to cupulate, dark greyish-black, hoary round the edge, whitish and densely hoary when young. Gills radiating from an excentric point, moderately close and numerous, many short ones at the periphery, sometimes showing slight venose buttresses, grey. Flesh dark coloured, sub- gelatinous. Spores 6X3.5 um; pileus clothed with cells and processes covered with lateral wart-like projections. S.A.—National Park, August, 1927. on trunk of living Eucalyptus viriminalis, A species evidently closely related to P. applicatus and P. subapplicatus, but characterised more particularly by the cells on the pileus, a feature not apparently recorded in P. applicatus, from which it also differs in the gills being moderately close and grey and in the slightly smaller spores. The shape of the .spores separates it from P. subapplicatus.

Pileus 1/4 to 5/8 in. (6 to 16 mm.) in diameter, convex, becoming depressed towards the attachment, at first inverted saucer-shaped, finally rather fan-shaped, a little repand, sometimes almost lobed, tomentose, strigose near the attachment when large, pallid grey. Gills moderately close, radiating from a lateral to excentric point of attachment, many short ones, grey with a tawny tint. No definite stem. Flexible, the flesh of the pileus with an upper dark gelatinous layer. Shed spores spherical, 6 to 7 um. On an upright piece of rotting wood in a glass house. S.A.—Blackwood, April, 1927. (Formalin Sp. No, 388.) This species differs from Rea's description (British Basidiomycetes) of P. applicants, (Batscli.) Berk., more particularly in the gills being moderately close and the spores being spherical (not 7 to 9X4 to 5um). Kauffmann (Agari-caceae of Michigan) says the gills of P. applicatus are subdistant, and whitish at first, then grey, and that the spores are spherical, 4 to 5 um. These descriptions appear to refer to different species, the description of neither of which fully agrees with that of the Australian plants. The specific, name subapplicatus has reference, however, to the obvious close relationship between our species and the. American and European ones.