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*** KiMOSI. 



Pileus longitudinally fibrillose and soon cracking in the 

 same direction, sometimes adpressedly sqnamulose; stem 

 fibrillose, slightly tinged with the colour of the pileus. 



**** Velutini. 



Pileus not longitudinally cracked, cuticle interwoven, 

 fibrillose, becoming smooth and adpressedly squamose, disc 

 even ; stem polished, smooth, becoming whitish, apex mealy. 



***** ViSCIDI. 

 Pileus becoming smooth, viscid. 



* SQUARROSI. 



Inocybe hystrix. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, fleshy, flesh firm but not compact, 

 white, convex then expanded, obtuse or slightly gibbous, 

 orbicular, mouse-colour, with revolute and squarrose, floccose 

 scales, fibrillose towards the margin ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 narrow, white then brownish ; stem solid, firm, 2-3 in. long, 

 3 lines and more thick, equal or for the most part attenuated 

 at the base, somewhat fusiform, brownish mouse-colour, 

 covered with crowded, revolute squarrose squamules up to 

 the acutely limited zone formed by the veil, pale and smooth 

 above the ring; spores elliptical, smooth, 10 x 5. 



Agaricus {Inocijhe) hjstrix, Fries, Epicr., p. 171 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 149 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 42-1. 



In beech woods, &c. 



Having much the appearance of a small, solitary specimen 

 of Pholiota squarrosa, but the colours are very difierent. 



Inocybe relicina. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-1 J iu. across, flesh thin, conical then expanded, 

 obtuse, smoke-colour, with squarrose tomentose scales ; gills 

 adnexed, crowded, yellow then olive ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, soliil, soft, equal, floccosely scaly. 



