1 8 AGARICINI. 



Myxacium. colour, stem concentrically light yellow-scaly, gills white, d) very small, pileus 

 date-brown-fuscous, stem scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) 



In woods. Common. July-Nov. 



Spores ferruginous, Fr. ; 9x6 mk. W.G.S.; 12-14x6-7 mk. K. Name 

 collino, to besmear. From the gluten. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 36. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 354. Berk. Out. p. 186. C. Hbk. n. 501. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 458. Ag. 

 Bull. t. 549, 596. Ventur. t. 32. f. 4-6 (abnormal). Buxb. C. iv. /. 9. 



34. C. mucifhius Fr. Pileus livid-clay, when dry tan, opaque, 

 somewhat fleshy, campanulato-expanded, smeared 'with separat- 

 ing hyaline gluten, margin striate. Stem attenuated downwards, 

 soft, viscid with the floccoso-scaly fugacious veil, white or inclin- 

 ing to azure-blue. Gills adnate, distinct, clay-colour then watery 

 cinnamon. 



Odour sweet. Intermediate between C. collinitns and C. elatior, so allied 

 to the former that it was long considered a variety. It differs especially as 

 follows : i) stem spongy, attenuated downwards, white : 2) pileus thinner, 

 campanulate then expanded, at length reflexed and repand, the membrana- 

 ceous margin striate : 3) colour of pileus livid-clay, when dry tan, opaque : 4) 

 the gluten of the pileus thin, hyaline, fluid, not forming a thick persistent 

 brightly coloured pellicle : 5) odour sweet. Gills clay then cinnamon. There 

 is nothing of a violaceous tint in the whole plant. 



On the ground. Hereford, &c. Oct. 



Name tmicus, fluo, to flow. From its being covered with mucus which 

 flows off and disappears. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 37. Hym. Eur. p. 355. Icon, 

 t. 148. f. i. Grevillea, vol. xi. /. 70. Quel. Grev. t. io8./. 4. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1881, /. 35. 



35. C. elatior Fr. Pileus about 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, 

 commonly livid-light yellow when damp, dingy ochraceous when 

 dry, slightly fleshy only at the disc, cylindrical or bullate then 

 campanulate, afterwards flattened and somewhat reflexed, the disc 

 above the stem obtuse, even, otherwise membranaceous and longi- 

 tudinally plicate-wrinkled at the sides, fragile, slightly viscous. 

 Stem 12.5-17.5 cent. (5-7 in.) long, 12 mm. (Yz in.) and more (5 

 cent., 2 in.) thick, commonly attenuated at both ends (especially 

 at the base), longitudinally fibrous, clothed with somewhat vis- 

 cous, whitish, torn up scales, rarely becoming violet. Cortina 

 viscous, fugacious. Gills adnate, linear, at first 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, at length broader (as much as 2.5 cent., I in.), somewhat 

 distant, connected by veins or wrinkled at the sides, always dark, 

 brown-cinnamon. 



The colour of the pileus varies whitish, tan-fuscous, date brown, violaceous- 

 brown, black, whitish round the margin, grey with the margin violaceous. 

 Gills violet-brown in Sowerby's fig. 



In mixed w r oods. Common. Sept.-Nov. 



