cium. 



14 AGARICINI. 



Phiegma- pressed, often irregular, with a viscous pellicle, even, smooth ; 

 flesh both of pileus and stem hard, shining white, unchangeable. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 12 mm. (%. in.) thick, but variable 

 and often curved, solid, firm, wholly shining white, furnished with 

 a cortina only at the apex, but not pulverulent ; the universal veil, 

 which serves as a pellicle of the pileus, ruptured at the base and 

 adnate to it, as a separable agglutinated membrane of the same 

 colour as the pileus. Gills attenuate -adnexed, almost free, 

 crowded, narrow, scarcely 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, with a small 

 decurrent tooth, acute at the apex, 'white then clay-colour. 



Handsome, distinguished, not allied to any. The colours of the pileus and 

 base of the stem depend upon the universal veil, which on being ruptured 

 forms the pellicle of the former, and the sheathing membrane of the latter. 

 Yellow spots are left where these are rubbed off. It varies sometimes solitary 

 and larger, compact, sometimes somewhat csespitose with the stems equal 

 and ascending. 



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Ill woods. Honningham, Norfolk. Oct. 



The colour agrees better with the name and with Fries's fig. than with his 

 description. Spores 7x4 mk. W.P. Name cumatilis, sea-coloured, blue. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 27. Hym. Eur. p. 349. Icon. t. 146.^ 2. C. caerulescens 

 Saund. & Sm. t. 22. 



27. C. decoloratus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, clay- 

 colour, disc darker, thin, but equally fleshy, campanulate then 

 convex, obtuse, soft, viscous, soon dry, smooth, corrugated when 

 old ; flesh soft, white, watery. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 12 

 mm. (^ in.) or less thick, stuffed, thin, somewhat equal, slightly 

 thickened at the base, ascending, fibrillose, silvery, often curved, 

 smooth and naked at the apex. Cortina inferior, fibrillose. Gills 

 emarginate, adnate or decurrent according to situation, not much 

 crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad (broader than the flesh of the 

 pileus), clay-colour then cinnamon. 



Taste slightly acrid. Very protean. The above is the typical form found 

 in beech woods. The habit and stature are quite those of C. tabularis, but 

 the pileus is viscous, never silky-veiled, stem never scaly, &c. In birch 

 woods : pileus a little darker, floccoso-scaly or rivuloso-granulose when dry ; 

 bulb at the first present, small and somewhat round, but soon vanishing, 

 soft, stem attenuated from it, sometimes yellowish ; gills at the first bluish- 

 grey-whitish. In pine woods : smaller and thinner, pileus even ; gills pallid 

 clay-colour. 



In woods. Epping. Edinburgh Fungus Show. Oct. 



Name de, and coloro, to colour. Changing colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 30. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 351. D. & Br. . 1541. S. My col. Scot. n. 457. Quel. Grev. 

 t. 107. /. 4. 



