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much allied to C. gentilis, distinct in the colour of all its parts, and in the Telamonia. 

 convex, obtuse or obtusely umbonate pileus. Commonly also thinner, very 

 flexuous, like C. helvelloides. In pine woods it occurs larger, somewhat cin- 

 namon, pileus at length fibrillose, gills sinuato-adnexed and less distant. 



In woods. Locality not recorded. 



Name punctus, a puncture. Pierced. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 382. Monogr. 

 ii. p. 91. B. & Br. n. 1551. 



II. LEPTOPHYLLI. 

 * Stern whitish, pallid, &^c. 



96. C. triformis Fr. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, remark- 

 ably hygrophanous, fawn-colour when young, then yellowish or 

 honey-colour, isabelline when dry, unequally fleshy, thin at the 

 margin, convex then plane, obtuse or slightly gibbous, superficially 

 fibrillose or becoming smooth, at length pierced-dotted, always 

 even, opaque. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 12 mm. (}4 in.) thick, 

 somewhat bulbous, stuffed, spongy internally, fragile, rather 

 smooth, pallid, ringed upwards with the woven veil, the ring dis- 

 tant and white. Gills adnate, ventricose, somewhat emarginate, 

 8 mm. (4 lin.) broad, connected by veins, somewhat distant, thin, 

 watery honey-colour, then watery cinnamon. 



The pileus varies in colour, at first brownish or livid-yellowish, dingy tan 

 when dry. The gills are of one colour. 



In woods. Alresford, Hants. 



Name tres, three ; forma, form. From its assuming three distinct forms, 

 of which the above (Sch&fferi) is the type. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 73. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 382. Schceff. t. 247 ? Grevillea, vol. xiv. p. 38. 



** Stem inclining to violet, &>c. 



97. C. periscelis Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, lilac, white- 

 silky, hygrophanous, campanulate then convex, umbo fleshy, 

 otherwise somewhat membranaceous. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 

 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, equal, straight, fibrillose, of 

 the same colour as the pileus, somewhat ringed with the woven 



fuscous veil, becomingfuscous when dry, white-villous at the base. 

 Gills adnate, crowded, narrow, pallid then dark ferruginous. 



Peculiar, rather perhaps belonging to the fuscous series. 



In bogs and under beech. Bowood. 



Name irepunceAis, a garter. From the ring. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 383. Berk. 

 Out. p. 193. C. Hbk. n. 531. 



98. C. flexipes Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent. (y-i in.) broad, at first 



