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thick, somewhat hollow, equal, always ascending or twisted, even, Dermocybe 

 smooth or fibrillose below, externally and internally white, naked 

 and silvery -shining at the apex. Gills variously adnexed on 

 account of the oblique pileus, sometimes broader behind and 

 wholly adnate, sometimes almost free, crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, thin, grey-clay-colour, then watery cinnamon and some- 

 what fuscous, quite entire and of the same colour at the edge. 



Odour somewhat rancid, but taste not remarkable. Different from all 

 neighbouring species in being remarkably fragile. 



In mixed woods. England. Glamis. Oct. 



yia.mecamtirus, crooked. Of the stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 59. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 367. Icon. t. 154. /. i. B. & Br. n. 1546. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 472. 

 Bull. t. 431. /. 4. 



61. C. diabolicus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more broad, 

 at fast fuscous and crusted with grey, then smooth and fuscous- 

 yellowish, fleshy, thin, hemispherical, obtuse, then gibbous, dry, 

 fragile, at length cracked. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, commonly 

 thin, 4 mm. (2 lin.) (but occurring as much as 10 mm., 5 lin.) 

 thick, stuffed, attenuated downwards, smooth, pale, bluish-grey at 

 the apex. Cortina fugacious. Gills adnate, separating, some- 

 what emarginate, somewhat crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) and more 

 broad, firm, very pale bluish-grey then soon whitish, at length 

 clay-colour. 



Inodorous. A singular species, placed here on account of its colours. 

 When old it might be readily taken for C. raphanoides. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 



Name" Called diabolicus because it holds a doubtful place among all the 

 sections of this subgenus." Fr. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 60. Hym. Eur. p. 367. 

 Berk. Out. p. 189. C. Hbk. n. 515. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 473. 



** Gills at first violaceous, becoming purple. 



62. C. caninus Fr. Pileus 7. 5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, variable 

 in colour, fuscous, brown, c., equally fleshy, not compact, firm, 

 not cracked, convex then becoming plane, obtuse, at first in- 

 crusted or hoary with silky villous down round the margin ; when 

 full grown becoming smooth; flesh white, at length somewhat 

 yellowish. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more long, 12 mm. (% in.) 

 thick, stuffed, spongy internally, at length hollow, thickened at the 

 base, somewhat bulbous, often white- villous, pale - white, vio- 

 laceous at the apex. Gills emarginate, somewhat distant, thin, 

 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, bluish-grey or purplish then cinnamon. 



The pileus is commonly brick-rufescent when old even becoming tawny 



