CANTERBURY: Lincoln University, biological husbandry area, NZMS 260 M36/66-29, PDD 69634, 52394, 53383, 62028, 28851, 28872.

Pileus 60-100 mm diam., medium thickness, fleshy, spherical when young, finally convex-applanate, surface silky smooth, white (N9.5) when young, finally pinkish (5R 8/4), bruising red (5R 6/KM/12); margin inrolled when young, finally straight, with remnants of veil; lamellae insertion free, thin, crowded, pale pink (5R 9/2) when young, finally stronger pink (5R 8/4) then brown (5YR 4/4); edge concolorous, fertile; trama parallel to irregular. Stipe 50-80 x 10-15 mm, central, solid, cylindrical, narrowing at base, surface smooth, floccose at apex, white (N9.5), bruising reddish (5R 6/10-5/10). Annulus thin, wide, pendant, brownish (5YR 4/4) above, white below, surface silky. Flesh white (N9.5), quickly reddening (5R 6/10-4/12) upon cutting or bruising; odour and taste pleasant. Schaffer' s cross-reaction negative. Basidia 4-spored, 25-40 x 10-15 µm, broadly clavate, with sterigmata 2-5 µm. Basidiospores dark brown (5YR 3/2) in mass, size (7.1-)8.0(-8.9) x (4.8-)5.5(-6.1) µm, elongation (1.3-)1.5(-l .7) µm, ovoid to ellipsoid, brown (2.5YR 4/4) in water, refractive centre (1-2 droplets), apiculus lateral, germ-pore present

NEW ZEALAND Auckland (Taylor 1983), Canterbury, Fiordland.

Common in rings in lawn or pasture.