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lines thick, equal or thickened at the base, indistinctly 

 fibrillose, white, apex mealy, base becoming tinged brown ; 

 Bpores elliptic-oblong, 10 X 5 /x. 



Agaricus longicaudus, Persoon, Syn., p. 332; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 164; Cke., lllustr., pi. 415. 



In woods. 



Smell weak, not unpleasant. 



Var. radicatus, Cke., Hdbk., p. 164; Cke., lllustr., 

 pi. 416. 



Stem fusiform, rooting. 



Judging from Cooke's figure of the present variety, it 

 closely resembles Flammula inopoda. 



Among fir leaves. 



Hebeloma lugens. Jungh. 



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

 glabrous, slightly viscid, brown then yellowish ; gills almost 

 free, fragile, crowded, pallid then ferruginous, margin crenu- 

 late, darker; stem 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, solid, 

 shining, fibrillosely striate, somewhat bulbous, apex with 

 white meal. 



Agaricus lugens, Jungh., Linn., v. p. 399 ; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 241 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 164. 



In woods. 



Smell strong, but not like radishes. 



Hebeloma truncatum. Schaeff". 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, convex then ex- 

 panded, very obtuse, wavy and very irregular, even, glabrous 

 or slightly superficially silky near the margin, scarcely 

 viscid, somewhat rufous, the margin, which is at first in- 

 curved, paler; gills emarginate, almost free, narrowest 

 behind, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, dry, not spotted, white, 

 soon pallid or with a flesh-coloured tinge, at length watery 

 ferruginous, margin quite entire and wavy ; stem solid, 

 robust, scarcely 1 in. long, 4-6 lines thick, about equal, 

 white, everywhere minutely pruinose under a lens ; veil 

 none; spores pip-shaped, 12-13 X 6-7 /x. 



Agaricus truncatm, Schaeffer, t. 251; Cke., Hdbk., p. 164; 

 Cke., lllustr., j)l. 417. 



In woods. 



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