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throughout or becoming so abruptly near the margin, scissile. 



(Fig- 57-) 



The species are mostly large and handsome. Species 1086 1128 



a. Platyphylla. Gills broad. 



Stem and Cortina white or whitish. 1086 1092 



Stem violaceous. Cortina usually white-violaceous. Universal 



Veil white. Gills violaceous. 10931098 



Stem and Veil reddish or yellow, except 1104. Gills tawny or 



cinnamon, neither violaceous nor becoming brown. 



10991107 

 Stem becoming fuscous. Veil fuscous or dull. Gills dark 



coloured. 11081114 



b. Leptophyllce. Pileus thin. Stem externally more rigid, sub- 



cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, often attenuate downwards. 



Gills more or less crowded, thin, narrow. 

 Stem whitish, pallid, not floccoso-scaly. 1115, 1116 



Stem inclining to violet. 1117 1119 



Pilens and Stem tawny, ferruginous. 1120 1122 



Pileus fuscous. Stem floccoso-scaly, fuscous. 1123 1128 



a. Platyphyllce. 



1086. C. macropus Fr. (from the long stem ; Gr. makros, long, pous, 



a foot) a c. 



P. convex, obtuse, flat, brick-red to ferruginous, hoary with 

 small sc. St. solid, equal, fibrillose, dull whitish, then as P., 

 zoned. G. adnexed or adnate, distant, pallid to watery 

 cinnamon. 



Woods, moist places. Oct. 3$ X 6% x in. 



1087. C. laniger Fr. (from the woolly, pileus ; lanct, wool) a. 



P. hemispherical, expanded, obtuse, bright tawny, clad with 

 white sc. St. solid, equal, white, annulate or bi-annulate. 

 G. rounded-adnexed, tawny-saffron. 



Odour strong. Woods, larch, pine, beech, mossy places. Sept. 

 3^ X 6 x | in. 



1088. C. bivelus Fr. (from the double veil ; bis, double, velum, a veil) 



a c. 



P. convex, obtuse, plane, tawny-ferruginous; mid. spotted or 

 darker. St. solid, clavato-bulbous, dull whitish, squarrose 

 below. G. adnexo-rounded, bright tawny-cinnamon. 



Taste mild ; odour strong. Woods. Sept. -Oct. 3t X 3 X in. 



1089. C. bulbosus Fr. (from the bulbous stem) a b. 



P. campanulato-expanded, gibbous, olivaceous, or date-brown to 

 reddish-fuscous. St. solid, paler than P., yellow below, 

 fugaciously zoned white. G. adnate, subdistant, cinnamon, 

 never violet. 



Odour of radish. Woods, mossy places ; rare. Sept. -Oct. 3^X3fxJin. 



