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then piano-depressed, even, smooth, covered with a viscous easily Flammula, 

 separable pellicle ; flesh soft, white. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 

 12 mm. (^ in-) thick, curt, firm, thickened sometimes upwards 

 sometimes downwards, whitish at the apex, otherwise ferruginous 

 with dense adpressed fibrils, internally stuffed or hollow and be- 

 coming ferruginous. Gills adnato-decurrent, moderately crowded, 

 broad, clay-colour. 



Pileus comparatively very much dilated. Easily recognised by its very strong 

 and very bitter odour. There are two forms : A. described above. B. 

 milder, pileus tawny, stem and gills light yellowish. 



In pastures. Glamis, 1874. Aug. 



Name lupus, a wolf. From the colour of the fibrils. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 352. Hym. Eur. p. 246. B. & Br. n. 1528. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 318. 



596. A. mixtus Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, dingy 

 tan, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, unequal at the disc which is 

 somewhat compact like a smooth sugared cake and under a lens 

 slightly wrinkled with gluten, paler towards the sloping margin, 

 wholly smooth and even. Stem 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) long, 6-8 

 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, tough, hollow, equal ; sometimes shorter, 

 ascending, curved ; sometimes elongated, ftexaous, fuscous-Jtfirtf- 

 lose (fibrils lax) ; whitish, clothed below with reflexed rufous-fus- 

 cous scales and somewhat thickened at the base. Cortina mani- 

 fest, fibrillose. Gills somewhat decurrent, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) 

 broad, somewhat crowded, white t/ien clay-colour, unequal at the 

 edge. 



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Inodorous. Somewhat cnespitose. The slightly firm flesh watery. The 

 external appearance and colours are those of A. (Hebeloma) punctatus, c. , but 

 in its whole nature it is nearest to A. lentus, lubricus, and lupinus. 



In pine and mixed woods. Rare. Aug.-Nov. 



Name mixtus, mixed. One among a number of allies. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 

 353- Hym. Eur. p. 246. B. & Br. n. 1239, bis. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 319. C. 

 lUust. PI. 474. Bull. t. 562. /. P.O. resembles it sufficiently well. 



597. A. juncinus Smith. Pileus 4 cent. (i;< in.) broad, sul- 

 phury yellow, disc rich brown, rleshy, hemispherical. Stem elon- 

 gated, 10 cent. (4 in.) long, thin, attenuated downwards, clothed 

 with a few fibres. Gills broad, very thin, red-brown. 



Veil none. Taste nauseous and disagreeable, somewhat bitter. Allied to 

 A. mixtus. 



On dead bulrushes in an old clay-pit. N. Wooton. Nov. 



Name /tt7z<rz*.r, a rush. Found on rushes. Worth. Smith in Joiirn. Bot. 

 1873, p. 336. C. 1 1 hist. PL 475. 



