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minutely and densely squamulose, then remarkably fibrillose, THcholoma. 

 variegated with fibrils winch are at length blackish, white and 

 delicately white pruinose at the apex, otherwise becoming pale- 

 white and at length fragile. Gills deeply emarginate, 6-10 mm. 

 (3-5 lin.) broad, ventricose, somewhat crowded, fragile, whitish. 



Trama hyaline, almost of the same colour as the flesh of the pileus. A most 

 distinguished species, not rightly allied to any ; polymorphous, and hence it 

 has been confounded alike with A. portentosus, from which it is most dis- 

 tinct, and with A. quinquepartitus. 



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



Spores ovoid, punctate, 5 mk. Q. Name-^/tf<r0, to dye, stained. Fr. 

 Monogr. \. p. 54. Hym. Eur. p. 49. Icon. t. 24. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 97. 

 C. Hbk. n. 41. lllust. PL 73. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 39. 



64. A. quinquepartitus Fr. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more 

 broad, pallid light-yellow, fleshy, thin at the circumference, con- 

 vex then flattened, repand, even, smooth, by no means streaked, 

 viscid, fragile ; flesh, with exception of the disc, thin, fragile, 

 white and somewhat hygrophanous. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) 

 long, commonly attenuated from the base to the apex, 12 mm. 

 (*/2 in.) and more thick, solid, fleshy, striate, smooth, white. Gills 

 emarginate, not crowded, 12 mm. (% in.) broad, white. 



Odour none, taste mild. Repand forms of A. portentosus and A. fucatus 

 have been confounded with this ; it is readily distinguished from the former 

 by the pileus being by no means streaked, and from the latter by the smooth 

 striate stem. 



Among pine-leaves. Very rare. 



Name quinquepartitus, with five-fold division. The name has no sig- 

 nification in regard to the plant. It was given by Linnaeus to a species which 

 cannot now be identified, and was adopted by Fries for this one, because it 

 was found near the residence of Linnaeus. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 54. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 49. Icon. t. 25. C. lllust. PI. 74. 



65. A. resplendens Fr. Wholly shining white. Pileus 5-10 

 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, wholly and equally fleshy, but not compact, 

 at first convex, at length flattened, obtuse, when fresh quite even, 

 smooth, viscous ; when dry beautifully s\\\ery-skmi?2g, often with 

 hyaline spots ; the disc becoming yellow, and the surface appear- 

 ing adpressedly silky, although it is smooth ; jnargin straight. 

 Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 12 mm. (y^ in.) and more thick, 

 solid, wholly fleshy and stout, sometimes equal,', sometimes bul- 

 bous, even, smooth or slightly flocculose only at the apex, dry, 

 occasionally curved. Gills almost free when young, then remark- 

 ably emarginate, somewhat crowded, rather thick, but thin at the 

 edge, quite entire, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, equally attenuated in 

 front. 



