46 AGARICINI. 



Telamonia. oblique, sometimes arranged in many zones, sometimes floccoso- 

 scaly below the ring, yellow. Gills aclnate, thick, very distant, 

 plane, connected by veins, quite entire, tawny-cinnamon. 



Gregarious. The stem is commonly more tense and straight than others of 

 the same stature. The gills are of the same colour as the pileus in the primary 

 state ; they do not change colour when dry, like the pileus and stem, where- 

 fore the fungus is remarkably of the same colour when moist, but when dry of 

 different colours, the pileus and stem being yellow. Spores have been observed 

 somewhat clay-coloured on a black ground. 



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



Spores subsphasroid-ellipsoid, 8-9x5-6 mk. K.; pruniform, nucleate, slightly 

 rough, 10x6 mk. C.B.P. Name -gentilis, national, as opposed to exotic. 

 Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 87. Hym. Eur. p. 380. Icon. t. 159. /. 2. Br. Bath Trans- 

 act. 1870, p. 72. C. Hbk. n. 529. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 492. GrevilZea, t. 84. 

 / 3- 



94. 0. helvelloides Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - (Yz-i in.) broad, 

 ferruginous, becoming tawny when dry, somewhat membrana- 

 ceous, convex then flattened, umbonate (obtusely or acutely), 

 smooth, somewhat striate when moist, when more fully grown 

 cracked and squarrose. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2-4 mm. 

 (1-2 lin.) thick, fistulose, equal, very much undulated and flex- 

 uous, somewhat ferruginous and without any whiteness. Veil 

 yellowish, silky round the margin of the pileus, and somewhat in 

 the form of a ring at the apex of the stem, above which the stem 

 is white-silky and glittering. Gills adnate, very thick and exceed- 

 ingly distant, rather broad, distinct, at first violaceous-umber 

 (never purplish), edge white-floccose, soon however of one colour 

 umber-cinnamon, at length ferruginous. 



Quite inodorous. The pileus varies fibrillose when young ; sometimes bul- 

 late, rarely conical : it varies also in colour. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 



Name Hel-vella-like. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 87. Hym. Eur. p. 380. Icon. 

 t. 139. f. 3. B. (Sr 5 Br. n. 929. C. Hbk. n. 530. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 493. 



*#*# $f em becoming fuscous, &>. 



95. C. punctatus Fr. Pileus hoary-umber (tan), somewhat 

 membranaceous, conico-convex, smooth, at length even, pierced. 

 Stem somewhat fistulose, equal, slender, undulated, fibrilloso- 

 striate, yellow-fuscous, girt with a pallid fuscous zone from the 

 fugacious veil. Gills adnate, very distant, quite entire, brown- 

 cinnamon, 



Primary form : pileus 12 mm. (y z in.) broad ; stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 scarcely beyond 2 mm. (i lin.) thick ; gills almost 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad. Very 



