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.