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cent. (3-5 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent. (%-\ in.) thick, the villous base inolo 

 however very bulbous, 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) thick, solid, spongy, at 

 first silky, then fibrillose, violaceous the?i whitish, internally deep 

 saffron-ochraceous. Cortina continuous with the silky covering 

 of the pileus, pallid violaceous, then cinnamon with the spores. 

 Gills emarginate, broad, distant, distinct, firm, saffron-ochraceous, 

 at length cinnamon, somewhat crenate at the edge. 



Readily distinguished by its very foetid odotir, and by its thick distant gilts 

 being at the first saffron-ochraceous. 



In pine woods. Forres, &c. Aug.-Sept. 



Spores sphaeroid-ellipsoid, 8-10x5-6 mk. K. Name — tragus, a goat. 

 With goat smell. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 51. Hym. Eur. p. 362. B. & Br. n. 

 1499. S. Mycol. Scot. 7i. 463. Ag. Schceff. t. 56. 



Var. finitimus Weinm. — Pileus silky, at length smooth, lilac, 

 as is the stem, which is yellowish and mottled within, but not 

 saffron-coloured nor brown. Smell not at all that of the typical 

 form, but pleasant though peculiar, resembling that of gum just 

 beginning to ferment. 



Forres. Name— ft Hit imus, nearly related. Weinm. p. 155. B. & Br. n. 

 1499. S. Mycol. Scot. szib. n. 463. 



49. C. tophaceus Fr.— Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, 

 golden-tawny, opaque, not becoming pale, compactly fleshy, thin 

 towards the margin, hemispherical, everywhere villoso-squamu- 

 lose, varying slightly silky and shining ; flesh soft, white, strong- 

 smelling. Stem solid, bulbous, villoso-squamulose, tawny, the 

 fibrillose veil of the same colour. Gills broadly emarginate, 12 

 mm. {y 2 in.) and more broad, distant, of the same colour, at 

 length tawny-cinnamon. 



Commonly springing up in a dense band, somewhat caespitose, but also 

 solitary and then larger, in form, stature, and villoso-squamulose covering of 

 pileus, appearing like C. violaceus, only that species is of an entirely different 

 colour. Odour not remarkable. It glitters from its golden colour. 



In woods. King's Lynn. 



Spores ellipsoid or subglobose, 6-8 mk. C.B.P. ; 7x5 mk. W.P. Name 

 — tophus, tufa, a volcanic rock of an earthy texture. Of the colour. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 52. Hym. Eur. p. 363. Quel. Grev. t. log.f. 2. 



* C. redimitus Fr. — Pileus thinner, obtusely umbonate, shin- 

 ing, golden, streaked with innate fibrils j flesh white. Stem 2.5-5 

 cent. (1-2 in.) long, slightly thickened at the base, 12 mm. { l / 2 in.) 

 thick, solid, internally soft, fibroso-striate, yellowish. Gills ad- 

 nate, with a small decurrent tooth, light yellow then tawny. 



In mixed wood. Glamis, 1875. Oct. Name—rcdimio, to wreathe round, 



ma. 



