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Monogr. i. p. 306. Hym. Eur. p. 216. Sv. Bot. t. 584. B. & Br. n. 1860. Pholiota. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 271. C. Illust. PL 358. A. denigratus Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 45, 

 &c. A. Leveillianus Doz. & Molk. Berk. Out. p. 152. A. jecorinus B. & 

 Br. n. 328. 



494. A. ombrophilus Fr. Wholly pale ferruginous when 

 damp. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, clay colour when dry, 

 fleshy, convex then plane, gibbous, here and there repand, even, 

 smooth, almost viscid, very hygrophanous, striate at the margin 

 when moist; flesh thin, soft, white when dry. Stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) and more thick, hollow, somewhat 

 fragile, equal, obsoletely fibrillose or slightly striate, pallid. Ring 

 distant, entire, reflexed, membranaceous, white. Gills adfixed, 

 but ventricose, at length separating, almost free, crowded, pallid, 

 then watery ferruginous. 



Gregarious, growing in troops after copious rain. There are two forms a) 

 typical : \>) brunneolus (figured in ' Icones') smaller, pileus obtuse, brown ; gills 

 narrower. 



On the ground. Coed Coch, &c. 



Spores 8x4 ink. W.P. Name o/xjSpo?, rain ; <iA.os, loving. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 216. Icon. t. 103. B. 6^ Br. n. 1861. C. Illust. PL 359. A. togularis 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. 306. 



495. A. togularis Bull. Pileus 4 cent. (\ l / 2 in.) broad, pallid 

 ochraceous, fleshy, soft, campanulate then expanded, obtuse, or- 

 bicular, without strice, smooth ; flesh thin, soft, becoming yellow. 

 Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, fistulose, 

 rigid, equal, cylindrical, fibrilloso-strigose, naked and becoming 

 yellow at the apex, becoming fuscous downwards. Ring medial, 

 more than 2.5 cent, (i in.) distant, entire, spreading-reflexed. 

 Gills adnato-separating, ventricose, crowded, narrowed in front, 

 becoming yellow, at length pallid ferruginous, never becoming 

 fuscous. 



Protean, slender, very variable in stature, growing in troops. B. More 

 slender, but densely gregarious, with the wholly pallid smooth stem thinner, 

 often flexuous. This form is exactly A. mesodactylus Berk. C. Very small. 

 Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) or little more, scarcely 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) thick, very flexuous, becoming ferruginous. 



In grassy places. Rare. May-Oct. 



Name togula, a little cloak. From the ample reflexed ring hanging like a 

 little cloak. Bull. t. 595. f. 2. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 216. Icon. t. 104, var. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 272. C. Illust. PL 350. A. Arrhenii Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 307. A. mesodactylus B. & Br. n. 681. /. g.f. i. 



** Phasoti. Spores fuscous-ferruginous. 



496. A. durus Bolt. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more broad, 

 tawny, tan colour, becoming fuscous, fleshy, somewhat compact, 



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