GOMPHIDIUS. 



(3-4 in.) and flexuous, fistulose, undulated on the surface, smooth, Hygrocyi 

 not furnished with a cuticle but wholly fissile into fibrils, pallid 

 fuscous, at length cinnamon-fuscous. Gills adnate, slightly ven- 

 tricose, thin, but truly distant, distinct, 3 mm. (1% lin.) broad, 

 cinnamon. 



Spores cinnamon. On account of its colours it is like C. Jlexipes, but in its 

 whole nature it is nearest to C. acutus. 



In pine woods. Dinmore, &c. Sept.-Oct. 



Umbo very acute. M.J.B. Namefascia, band; fillet. From the stem 

 splitting into bundles of fibres. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 114. Hym. Eur. p. 399. 

 Grevillea, vol. viii. p. 78. B. & Br. n. 1884. Quel. Grev. t. 114. f. 5. 



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GENUS VI. Gomphidius (7W S , a wooden bolt or nail). Gomphidius. 



Fr. Epicr. p. 310. 



Hymenophore decurrent on the stem. Gills composed of a 

 mucilaginous membrane, scissile, continuous at the acute edge, 

 pruinate with the blackish fusiform 

 spores. Veil viscoso-floccose. Grow- 

 ing on the ground, fleshy, putrescent, 

 pileus at length turbinate ; gills de- 

 current, distant, soft. 



A small genus, with great differ- 

 ences among the species, intermedi- 

 ate by its habit between Cortinarius 

 and Hygrophorus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 



P- 399- 



Universal veil glutinous, at first 



terminating on the stem in a floccose 

 ring or fugacious cortina. The gills 

 often admit of being detached and 

 stretched out into a continuous . 



. . XL VI. Gomphidius mscidus. 



membrane. Fr. Monogr. \\. p. 149. One-fifth natural size. 



1. G. glutinosus Fr. Pileus 5-12. 5 cent. (2-5 in.) broad, 

 purple-fuscous, often mottled with black spots, fleshy, convex, 

 obtuse, at length plane, even depressed, even, smooth, very 

 glutinous; flesh thick, about 12 mm. (}4 in.), soft, white. Stem 

 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) and more long, about 12 mm. (% in.) thick, 

 solid, whitish, thickened and externally and internally yellow at 

 the base, viscid with the veil, fibrillose or varying with black 



