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Tribe 3. Inoloma (a fibrous fringe). Pileus fleshy, dry, 

 silky with scales fibrous, flesh not watery. Veil simple, vStem 

 dry and fleshy, somewhat bulbous. Germans call it Dickfuss. 



Tribe 4. Dermocybe (Skinhead, Ger. Haiitkopf). Pileus 

 thin and equally fleshy, at first silky with a villous down, 

 getting smooth w^heu older, not watery. Stem equal, elastic, 

 sometimes hollow. Veil single, fibrillose. Gills generally 

 of a bright color. 



Tribe 5. Telamonia (lint). (Ger. Guertelfuss.) Pileus 

 moist, watery at first, smooth or sprinkled with whitish fibres, 

 flesh thin or becoming so abruptly at the margin. Stem annu- 

 late below, from the universal veil or peronate with scales, 

 somewhat corticate at the apex, with a partial veil. 



Tribe 6. Hygrocybe (Moisthead, Ger. Wasserkopf). Pileus 

 smooth or only covered with white fibrils, not viscous, but 

 moist when fresh, changing color when dry, flesh thin, rarely 

 more compact at the disk. Stem rigid, not sheathed. Veil 

 thin, fibrillose. Gills thin. 



Tribe I. Phlegmacium. 



Pelicle of pileus viscid when moist or wet. Veil dry, simple, 

 that is, a spider-web veil from the stem to margin of pileus. 



This tribe is divided into three subtribes. Two have the stem 

 thickened at the base and the third has an even, elastic stem. 



C. (Phlegmacium) porphyropus. Fr. 



Pileus, thin, flattened, first lead color, later brownish, flesh 

 turning to light purple when cut. 



Gills, sinuate, adnexed, light purple, then cinnamon color, 

 with spores. 



