34 AGARICINI. 



Dermocybe. ing, or obsoletely scaly ; the firm flesh paler. Stem 4-5 cent. 

 (\y 2 -2 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) and more thick, solid, equal, 

 sometimes however bulbous, fibrillose or striate, scarlet -red, 

 reddish-brick-colour internally. Cortina fibrillose, lax, cinnabar. 

 Gills wholly adnate, somewhat decurrent, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 somewhat distant, connected by veins, unequal and darker at the 

 edge, dark blood-colour when bruised. 



Odour of radish. Readily distinguished from all others by its splendid scarlet 

 colour, and from C. sanguinens by its short solid and firm stem, its broad 

 pileus, and somewhat distant gills. Stem never becoming yellow. 



In beech woods. Street, &c. Oct. 



Name cinnabaris, dragon's blood. From the colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. 

 p. 64. Hym. Eur. p. 370. Icon. t. 154. /. 4. S. MycoL Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 

 1882, p. 217. Quel. Grev. t. no./". 4. 



68. C. sanguineus Fr. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-i)4 in.) broad, 

 blood-colour, becoming slightly pale when dry, fleshy, thin, con- 

 vex then plane, obtuse, occasionally depressed, silky or squamu- 

 lose ; flesh reddish, paler. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, stuffed then hollow, equal (rather 

 attenuated than thickened at the base), here and there flexuous, 

 with fibrils of the same colour, almost darker than the pileus. 

 Cortina arachnoid, fugacious, red blood-colour. Gills adnate, 

 crowded, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, quite entire, dark blood- 

 colour. 



Wholly dark blood-colo:ir, the stem when compressed pouring forth bloody 

 juice. Odour of radish. Thinner than species nearest to it. The spores are 

 ochraceous on a white ground, somewhat ferruginous on a black ground. 



In woods, chiefly pine. Frequent. Sept. -Oct. 



Spores 6x4 mk. W. G.S. Name sanguis, blood. From the colour. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 65. Hym. Eur. p. 370. Berk. Out. p. 190. C. Hbk. n. 519. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 477. Ag. Wulf. in Jacq. Coll. 2. t. 15. /". 3. Sow. t. 43. 

 Bolt. t. 36. Klotsch Bor. t. 385. Krombh. t. z.f. 28-30. " 



69. C. anthracinus Fr. Pileus dark chestnut or brown-fus- 

 cous, fleshy at the umbonate disc, otherwise thin, convex then 

 expanded, umbo persistent, becoming fibrillose-even or smooth ; 

 flesh very dark, of the same colour as the pileus. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, fibrillose, of an 

 intense blood-colour, fuscous towards the base. Gills adnate, 

 crowded, deep red or fiery in colour, blood-red when bruised. 



Very elegant and most distinct ; smaller in all its parts than those nearest 

 to it. 



In woods. Coed Coch. 



