24 AGARICINI. 



Inoloma. Name — *cvai>o?, dark blue. Fr. Monogr, ii. p. 47. Hym. Eur. p. 360. 



Icon. t. 152. f. 1. B. & Br. n. 1544. 



46. C. albo-violaceus Fr.— Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 violaceous -white, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate or rather 

 gibbous, dry, not moist, beautifully innately silky and becoming 

 even; flesh juicy, azure-blue-white. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) 

 long, solid, firm, clavato-bulbous or conico-attenuated, 1-2.5 cent. 

 (X -1 in.) thick, externally and internally white-violaceous, white- 

 villous, fibrillose above with the cortina, and often with the white 

 veil in the form of a zone at the middle. Gills adnate, scarcely 

 emarginate, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, somewhat distant, some- 

 what serrulated, of a peculiar cinereous -violaceous colour, at 

 length cinereous-cinnamon with the spores. 



Inodorous, insipid. The fibrils on the stem are longitudinally adpressed as 

 in Ag. geophyllus. There is a larger form with the well-formed pileus obtuse. 



In woods. Forres, &c. Sept. -Oct. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 6-9 x 4-5 mk. K. ; pruniform, 10 mk. Q. Name 

 — albus, white ; violaceus, violet. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 49. Hym. Eur. p. 361. 

 Icon. t. 151. f. 3. 6'. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1883, p. 31. Grevillea, 

 vol. xii. p. 55. 



47. C. camphoratus Fr. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, at 

 first lilac, then changing colour (becoming white, yellow, &c.) 

 but not hygrophanous, truly fleshy, convex then flattened, obtuse, 

 at first silky then becoming smooth; flesh azure-blue. Stem 

 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent. (>£-i in.) thick, solid, 

 soft, bulbous or obclavate, when young with a woolly sheath, 

 violet, but internally white at the base. Cortina fibrillose, azure- 

 blue, at length cinnamon with the spores. Gills at first arcuate, 

 commonly adnato - decurrent, but varying emarginate, thin, 

 crowded, at the first mtensely azure-blue, then becoming purple. 



Odour fcetid and exceedingly penetratifig, wholly peculiar, and different 

 from the goat smell of C. traganus. 



In woods. Fine shade. 



Spores ochraceous-cinnamon, Fr. ; 9x6 mk. K. Name — camphoratus r 

 strong-scented. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 50. Hym. Eur. p. 362. Icon. t. 152. f. 2. 

 B. & Br. n. 1128. C. Hbk, n. 506. 



*"** Gills or veil cinnamon, &*c. 



48. C. traganus Fr. — Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, very 

 fleshy, convex then flattened, obtuse, dry, at first silky, becoming 

 even, /zY^-purplish, soon becoming pale, at length becoming 

 smooth and yellowish internally and externally. Stem 7.5-12.5 



