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carhonaria, "but quite distinct in tlie decurrent, bright-coloured 

 gills. 



Flammula clitopila. Cke. & Sm. 



Pileus 1-1| in. across, ratlier fleshy, convex then expanded, 

 disc depressed and umbilicate, smooth, drv, purplish-brown 

 (madder brown) ; gills slightly adnexed, ventricose, scarcely 

 crowded, dingy yellowish ; stem 2 in. long, h in. thick in the 

 middle, erect, ventricose, smoky-brown, with a few scattered 

 fibrils towards the base, hollow, brown within ; spores brown, 

 elliptical, 10 X 4 /x. 



Agaricus (Flammulci) cliptoinlus, Cke. & W. G. Smith, Grev., 

 xiii. p. 59; Cke., Hdbk., p. 167; Cke., Illustr., pi. 500. 



On the ground under firs. 



Pileus 2 in., stem 2J-3 in. thick in the middle. Allied to 

 Ag, Weinmanni, Fries, of which it may possibly be a variety, 

 but differing in the pileus not being virgate, in the ventricose, 

 hollow stem, and in the gills not being decurrent. (Cooke.) 



** LUBPJCI. 



Flammula lenta. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, fleshy, convex, obtuse then almost 

 jolane, even, viscid, at first with minute, scattered squamules, 

 whitish, pale clay-colour, or livid ; gills adnate, w^hitish then 

 clay-colour, crowded, 1-2 lines broad, becoming discoloured 

 ■with the ferruginous spores; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines 

 thick, subequal, often viscid, with white reflexed squamules, 

 tough, somewhat stuffed ; spores elliptical, 6-8 x 4 /x. 



Agaricus {Flammula) lentus, Pers., Syn., p. 257 ; Cke., 

 Hdk., p. 167 : Cke., Illustr., pi. 439 ! 440 ? 



On the ground, rarel}' on w^ood, in mixed woods. Very 

 glutinous in wet weather. Altogether whitish, or varjing 

 to pale clay colour. 



I suspect this and A. {Heheloma^ glutinosus are one species. 

 On examining the spores of a large number of specimens, 

 growing at the same time within a limited area, I find the 

 spores shading from the clay-colour of Hebeloma to the 

 brighter colour of Flammula. The gills were also very 

 sinuato-adnexed in 3'ounger specimens, and decurrent with a 

 tooth w^hen older. (Stev.) 



