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AGARICINI. 



Myxacium. The pileus in the earliest stage is covered over, especially round the margin, 

 with a very thin, silky, white film. Taste at first watery, then acrid and 

 pungent. 



In woods. Lea, Gainsborough. Glamis. Sept.-Oct. 



Name pluo, to rain. From being viscid in rainy weather. Fr. Monogr. ii. 

 /. 43. Hym. Eur. p. 359. B. 6 Br. n. 1267. S. Mycol, Scot. n. 461. 

 Ag. Batschf. 190. 



Inoloma. 



Tribe III. INOLOMA 



(Iff, a fibre ; Aoyta, a fringe). Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. i. p. 216. Pileus equally fleshy, 

 dry, at first silky with innate scales 

 or fibrils, flesh continuous, not hy- 

 grophanous. Veil single. Stem 

 fleshy, somewhat bulbous. Species 

 very distinguished. There are Te- 

 lamonice which resemble Tnolomata, 

 but they differ from them by having 

 the pileus smooth, moist, then torn 

 (whereas the Inolomata become 

 smooth), or by being sprinkled over 

 with white superficial fibrils, and by 

 possessing a double veil. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 359. 



XL II. Cortinarius ^Inoloma) cal- 

 listeus. One-fourth natural size. 



* Gills at first white or pallid. 

 ** Gills, as well as the veil and stem, 

 violaceous. 

 *** Gills or veil cinnamon, red, or ochraceous. 



(C. subferrugineus and C. armillatus are apt to be sought for here.) 

 **** QiHs or ve n dark, fuscous, olivaceous. 



* Gills at first white or pallid. 



43. C. argentatus Fr. Pileus 10 cent. (4 in.) broad, silvery- 

 shining, disc becoming pale, at the first silky-lilac round the 

 margin then dun -coloured, fleshy, convexo- plane, at length 

 broadly gibbous, silky-even becoming smooth ; flesh whitish. 

 Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 12 mm. (y z in.) and more thick, solid, 

 attenuated from the (scarcely bulbous) base, smooth, silvery- 

 white, at length becoming yellow at the base, internally white. 

 Cortina fibrillose, fugacious, adhering only to the margin of the 

 pileus, pallid. Gills emarginate, crowded, slightly serrated, 6 mm. 

 (3 lin.) broad, pallid then watery cinnamon. 



Odour -weak. There is a smaller form in pine woods. The stem is bulbous 

 when short. 



