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581. A. longicaudus Pers. Pileus 4-5 cent. (1^-2 in.) broad, Hebeioma. 

 clay-colour, the disc sometimes becoming fuscous, fleshy, not 

 compact, convex then expanded, umbonate, at length repand, 



even, smooth, viscid ; flesh soft, watery, but not hygrophanous. 

 Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, fragile, 

 equal or thickened at the base, obsoletely fibrillose, white, mealy at 

 the apex, at length becoming tawny at the base. No cortina 

 manifest. Gills arcuato-adnate, crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 white-clay, at length cinnamon, serrulated and somewhat dotted at 

 the edge. 



Odour weak, not unpleasant, in no wise that of radish. 



In woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 11x6 mk. W.G.S. Name longus, long; cauda, a tail. Long- 

 stemmed. Pers. Syn. p. 332. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 331. Hym. Eur. p. 241. 

 Berk. Out. p. 157. t. 9. /. 2. C. Hbk. n.' 315. Illust. PL 415. 5. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 315. Batt. t. 21. F. Var. radicatus C. Illust. PL 416. 



582. A. lugens Jungh. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 brown, becoming somewhat yellow, fleshy, convexo-plane, smooth, 

 somewhat viscid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 

 lin.) thick, solid, shining, fibrilloso-striate, somewhat bulbous, 

 white-mealy at the apex. Gills somewhat free, fragile, crowded, 

 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, pallid then ferruginous, cremilated and 

 darker at the edge. 



Odour strong, but not of radish. 



Under beech. Lyndhurst. 



Name lugeo, to mourn. Sombre in colour. Jungh. in Linn. v. p. 399. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 241. B. & Br. n. 1762. Sterb. t. 19. H. 



583. A. truncatus Schceff. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 somewhat rufous, paler round the margin, compactly fleshy, convex 

 then flattened, very obtuse, undulato-repand, very irregular, even, 

 smooth or obsoletely superficially-silky round the margin which 

 is at first inflexed and naked, scarcely viscous ; flesh thick, white. 

 Stem scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, 

 solid, robust, quite equal, white, the whole delicately pruinate under 

 a lens, not fibrillose or squamulose. Cortina none. Gills emargi- 

 nato-free, narrower behind, crowded, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, 

 arid and not spotted, white then soon becoming pale or flesh- 

 white, at length watery ferruginous, edge quite entire, but some- 

 what repand. 



It varies with the pileus becoming pale, disc clay-coloured, margin white, 

 and the gills very crisped, branched and anastomosing. Odour weak, not 

 unpleasant. 



