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the pileus ; date-brown, brick-colour, copper-brown. There is a variety (in Telamonia. 

 drier weather) with the gills rufescent-flesh-colour. Small forms changed in 

 colour occur. The pileus like that of C. scutulatus, elatior, c. varies pitted- 

 wrinkled and ribbed from the centre. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Name torvus, savage. Growing in wild places. Fr, Monogr. ii. p. 74. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 376. Icon. t. 157. / i. B, & Br. n. 1353. C. Hbk. n. 524. 

 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 485. Bull. t. 600. /. Q.R.S. Kalch. t. 21. /. i. 



83. C. impennis Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, at first 

 abnost umber, then brick-colour, changing colour and dingy, 

 somewhat equally JZesfty, very obtuse, convex, smooth, when young 

 silky only round the margin, at length cracked ; flesh pallid. 

 Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent - ( 1 A~ 1 i n -) thick, solid, 

 cylindrical^ scarcely bulbous, not clothed with scales, pale, becom- 

 ing violet at the apex and internally azure-blue, girt towards the 

 apex with a white zone formed of the veil, and furnished with a 

 cortina (of the same colour). Gills at first adnate, then emar- 

 ginate, distant, rather thick, at first intensely and brightly vio- 

 laceous and somewhat purplish, but immediately changing colour 

 and becoming watery ferruginous. 



The pileus does -not become hoary. Approaching C. torvus in colours, but 

 much inferior, certainly different in the stem not being sheathed with the veil, 

 in the pileus being smooth, &c. In a young state the colour is almost that of 

 Ag. butyraceus. 



Among dead leaves. Bomere. 



Name penna, a feather. Without feathers. Smooth, contrasted with 

 C. plumiger. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 75. Hym. Eur. p. 376. Icon. t. 157. f. 2. 

 B. & Br. n. 1880. 



84. C. plumiger Fr. Pileus fuscous, somewhat olivaceous 

 when moist, brick-tan when dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, 

 conical when young, then campanulate, with a broad obtuse very 

 prominent umbo, when more expanded as much as 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.), and often cracked, dry, clothed with dense white floccoso- 

 plumose scales, which are sometimes erect and squarrose, some- 

 times (after showers) adpressed and silky. Stem 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick at the base, 10 mm. (5 lin.) 

 at the apex, solid, remarkably clavate, pale, internally watery 

 whitish. Veil floccoso-scaly on the stem, somewhat in the form of 

 a ring at the apex, shining white. Gills adnate, scarcely crowded 

 broad, at first violaceous, soon of a watery then of a pure cinna- 

 mon, edge quite entire, of the same colour or clay. 



Handsome. 



