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5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, equally attenuated upwards, 6-10 mm. Dermocybe. 

 (3-5 lin.) thick, rarely equal, stuffed, but in no wise furnished 

 with a hark, fibrillose, opaque, pale. Veil filamentous, pallid 

 olive. Gills adnate, slightly ventricose, scarcely crowded, some- 

 what olivaceous, at length cinnamon and somewhat ferruginous, 

 edge paler. 



Odour of radish, taste bitter. Protean like C. cinnamomeus. It varies 

 with the stem elongated and twisted. The gills change colour with the 

 state of the atmosphere, so that it is often difficult to recognise it. 



In beech and fir woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Name raphanus, radish. From the smell. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 69. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 373. Berk. Out. p. 191. C. Hbk. n. 522. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 481. 

 Mich. t. 75. /. 2? Quel. Grev. t. in./. 6. 



76. C. venetus Fr. Pileus 4-5 cent. (iK-2 in.) broad, when 

 young green, then greenish-j//0/, when dry more yellow, but 

 not hygrophanous, fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, equal, velvety or 

 tomentose, the very thin erect down persistent ; flesh yellowish- 

 pallid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed or hollow upwards, equal, firm, curved, of the same colour 

 as the pileus or a little paler, externally remarkably fibrilloso- 

 silky, greenish-yellow. Cortina fibrillose, green. Gills adnate, 

 connected by veins, somewhat distant, very broad, in the form of 

 a segment, darker than the pileus, olivaceous. 



Gregarious. Most distinct. The stem is often yellow-villous at the base. 

 The yellow covering of the pileiis readily distinguishes it from former species. 



In woods. Rannoch. Oct. 



Spores ovoid, punctate, 10 mk. Q. Name venetus, sea-coloured. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 70. Hym. Eur. p. 374. Icon. t. 155. /. 4. B. & Br. n. 1548. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 482. 



Tribe V. TELAMONIA (reAa/ufo, lint). Fr. Syst Myc. i. p. Telamonia. 

 210. Pileus moist, hygrophanous, at the first smooth or sprinkled 

 with superficial whitish fibres of the veil. Flesh thin throughout 

 or becoming so abruptly at the margin (not equally attenuated), 

 scissile. Stem annulate below from the universal veil or peronate 

 with scales, somewhat cortinate at the apex, hence the veil is 

 somewhat double. To this subgenus are referred some species, in- 

 termediate between this and the preceding one, on account of their 

 double veil, the universal one forming a slight ring, and their pileus 

 not being silky, &c. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 374. 



