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with rose-coloured meal. Gills decurrent, thick, obtuse at the Hygro- 

 edge, whitish. phorus - 



Allied to H. eburneus, but the rose-coloured meal with which the stem is 

 covered separates it from all other species. 



Among pine-leaves. Glamis, 1876. Nov. 



A small but very beautiful species. Name pulvis, dust ; pulverulent. 

 B. & Br. n. 1667. 5. Mycol. Scot. ?t. 515. 



** Reddish. 



6. H. erubescens Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) and more 

 broad, white becoming everywhere red, fleshy, gibbous then 

 convexo-plane, viscid, adpressedly dotted with squamules or be. 

 coming smooth, sometimes wholly compact, sometimes thin 

 towards the margin whicli is at the first naked j flesh firm, 

 white. Stem sometimes short, robust, 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick and attenuated upwards, sometimes elon- 

 gated, 10 cent. (4 in.) long, equal or attenuated at the base, 

 solid, flexuous, with red fibrils, dotted with red upwards. Gills 

 decurrent, distant, soft, white, with red spots. 



Veil none. The ground colour is white, as it is also internally, but it every- 

 where becomes red and the pileus often rosy-blood-colour. Handsome, grow- 

 ing in troops, commonly forming large lax circles. 



In pine woods. Hereford. 



Spores ellipsoid, very obtuse at both ends, 8-10x4-5 mk. K. Name 

 erubesco, to become red. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 125. Hym. Eur. p. 407. Sv. 

 dtl. Sv. t. 65. Quel. t. n. f. i. Grevillea, -vol. vi. p. 71. Ag. Kalchbr. Ic. t. 

 i8./. 2. 



7. H. glutinifer Fr. Pileus rufescent, whitish round the 

 margin, fleshy, convexo-expanded, thin with exception of the 

 disc which is at length broadly gibbous, with a glutinous pel- 

 licle, disc wrinkled-dotted. Stem stuffed, somewhat elastic, ven- 

 tricose downwards, with a viscous veil, of the same colour as 

 the pileus, white-squamulose at the apex. Gills arcuato-decur- 

 rent, rather thick, shining white. 



Gregarious, mild, variable in stature. 

 In woods. Penzance. 



Fries considers it different from A. aromaticus Sow. t. 144. Berkeley (B. 

 &" Br. n. 2019) thinks it is probably the same. Name gluten, fero, to 

 carry. Gluten-bearing. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 407. Epicr. p. 322. B. & Br. 

 n. 2019. Ag. Bull. t. 258, 539. f. B. 



*** Tawny or light-yellow. 



8. H. arbustivus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, slightly 

 tawny-brick-colour, paler round the margin, opaque, fleshy, con- 



