cium. 



4 AGARICINI. 



Phiegma- the spores. Gills variously adnexed, rounded or emarginate, even 

 decurrent with a tooth, crowded, serrated, white then clay-colour. 



Densely crowded in large heaps. Dependent on the weather. The flesh is 

 not so hard and compact as that of C. claricolor, wherefore the pileus is never 

 broken into scales. The gills never turn bluish-grey. The mealy andfloccose 

 covering is a universal veil ; in C. triu.mph.ans it is concentrically tawny- 

 scaly, in C. claricolor, white-woolly-scaly, in C. turmalis, white-woolly, soon 

 naked. 



In mixed woods. Glamis, &c. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores '8-9x5 mk. K.; 8x5 mk. W.P. Name turma, a troop. From 

 its habit of growth. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 5. Hym. Eur. p. 336. B. & Br. n. 

 1774. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 447. 



4. C. sebaceus Fr. Pileus 6-12.5 cent. (2^-5 in.) broad, uni- 

 colorous, pale, of the colour of tallow, equally fleshy, convex then 

 rather plane, commonly very repand, viscid, smooth, but at the 

 first covered over with a whitish pruinose lustre ; flesh white. 

 Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 12 mm.-2.5 cent. (X-i in.) thick, 

 solid, stout, compact, never bulbous, often twisted and com- 

 pressed, slightly fibrillose, pale white. Cortina delicate, fuga- 

 cious, adhering only to the margin of the pileus. Gills emar- 

 ginate, not crowded, connected by veins, 8 mm. (4 lin.) broad, 

 clay-colour or pallid cinnamon, paler at the sides. 



The flesh of the pileus is not compact at the disc and abruptly thin at the 

 circumference, but equally attenuated towards the margin. The flesh of the 

 stem is white. The gills never turn bluish-grey. Taste mild. 



In mixed woods. Glamis, &c. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores pale cinnamon, Fr. Name sebum, tallow. From the colour. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 7. Hym. Eur. p. 337. Icon. t. 143. f. i. B. & Br. n. 1542. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 448. Grevillea, t. 83. 



** Gills violaceous, &>. 



5. C. varius Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more broad, bright 

 ferruginous-tawny, compact, hemispherico-flattened, very obtuse, 



regular, slightly viscid, even, smooth, the thin margin at first in- 

 curved, appendiculate with the cortina; flesh firm, white. Stem 

 curt, 4-6 cent. (i%-2% in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more thick, 

 bulbous, absolutely immarginate, compact, shining white, adpress- 

 edly flocculose, the superior veil pendulous. Gills emarginate, 

 thin, somewhat crowded, at first narrow, "violaceous-purplish, then 

 broader and ochraceous-cinnamon, always quite entire. 



Variable in stature, but the habit and colours are always unchangeable. It 

 varies with the stem taller and somewhat equal, the pileus yellow-tawny, and 

 the gills dark blue. 



