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The colour (even of the gills) is very changeable. Spores ellipsoid-sphseroid, Dermocybe. 

 8-9x6-7 mk. K. Name a, 6/u.aAo?, even. Irregular, anomalous. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 62. Hym. Eur. p. 369. Icon. t. 154. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 190. 

 C. Hbk. n. 517. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 476. Ag. Bull. t. 431. /. 2. 



65. C. spilomeus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, rufescent 

 or clay-colour, not hygrophanous, somewhat fleshy, convex then 

 expanded, gibbous, becoming smooth. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 thin, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, somewhat equal, white- 

 lilac and beautifully variegated 'with rufous or tawny scales, 

 furnished with a white cortina at the apex. Gills adnate or 

 emarginate, crowded, narrow, thin, quite entire, bluish-grey or 

 violaceous, becoming pale, at length watery cinnamon. 



Very elegant, commonly caespitose. The scales on the stem are like those 

 of C. pholideus but with the colour of those of C. bolaris. 



In woods. Uncommon. 



Spores subsphaeroid, 8-9 x 7-8 mk. K. Name <nrtA.o?, a spot. From the 

 variegated marking of the stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 63. Hym. Eur. p. 369. 

 Icon. t. 154. /. 3. Berk. Out. p. 190. C. Hbk. n. 518. Ag. Brig. t. 28. 

 / 4 -6. 



*** Gills brightly cinnamon, &c. 



66. C. miltinus Fr. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iX in.) broad, bay- 

 brown-cinnamon or when moist dark cinnamon, when dry 

 shining, brick-colour, disc somewhat bay-brown, fleshy, thin, 

 convex or lens-shaped then expanded, obtuse or broadly gibbous, 

 even, polished-smooth, scissile at the disc ; flesh watery when 

 moist, tan when dry. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, fistulose, very tough, somewhat cartilaginous, 

 equally attenuated upwards, often twisted, white-tomentose at 

 the base, cinnamon or reddish, with red fibrils, often villous at 

 the apex with the red cortina. Gills adnate, 2-3 mm. (1-1% lin.) 

 broad, almost linear, plane, crowded, thin, beautiful reddish- 

 cinnamon then ferruginous. 



Odour none. Although the pileus is moist in rainy weather and becomes 

 pale when dry, it cannot be called hygrophanous. An elegant and remarkable 

 species, the type of the group. The habit is that of preceding species, but 

 the colours are those of C. cinnamomeus. 



In mixed woods. Ledbury. 



Name /OU'XTO?, red earth. From the colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 64. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 369. Grevillea, vol. xii. p. 42. Quel. Grev. t. no./. 3. 



67. C. cinnabarinus Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 scarlet-red, truly fleshy, campanulate, then flattened, obtuse or 

 very obtusely umbonate, silky, then becoming smooth and shin- 



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