32 AGARICINI. 



Dermocybe. when dry. The veil in the perfect state is double, the inferior one fibrillose or 

 scaly clothing the greater part of the stem, and terminating near the apex in an 

 annular (white or fuscous) zone, above which the stem is slightly villous and 

 cortinate. Allied to C. tabularis as to stature, and distinct from C. anomalus 

 in the stem being sheathed, veiled and adpressedly fibrous, somewhat annularly 

 zoned above, and in the pile us being fuscous then rufescent. 



In mixed woods. Common. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores subsphasroid, 8-10 x 7-8 mk. K. Name — can is, a dog. Of doubtful 

 meaning. Applied to various common plants. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 60. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 368. Berk. Out. p. 189. C. Hbk. n. 516. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 474. 

 Saund. & Sm. t. 15. Ag. Buxb. C. 4. /. 22. Bull. t. 544. f. r. 



63. C. myrtillinus Fr.— Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, pure 

 fuliginous, hoary-silky with dense fibrils, never rufescent, fleshy, 



thin, tough, gibbous then becoming plane ; flesh when moist 

 watery fuscous, when dry white, violaceous at the apex of the 

 stem. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) or a little more long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 

 lin.) thick, stuffed, externally tough, slightly bulbous, white-silky, 

 whitish. Cortina scarcely manifest. Gills ad?iate, somewhat dis- 

 tant, of a beautiful amethyst-azure-blue, scarcely changing colour, 

 never becoming purple. 



The pileus is not at the first so convex as that of C. anomalus. The colour 

 and habit are so like those of Ag. nudus, that those who say that that species 

 is furnished with a veil seem really to have had this before them. 



In mixed woods. Glamis, 1875. Rannoch. Sept. 



Name — myrtus, myrtle. Of colour (??iyrteus), chestnut-brown. Fr. Monogr. 

 ii. p. 61. Hym. Eur. p. 368. B. & Br. n. 1547. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 475. 

 Bolt. t. 147. 



64. C. anomalus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent. (1 in.) and more broad, 

 fuliginous then rufescent, becoming hoary with separating fibrils, 

 at length yellowish, but not hygrophanous, fleshy, thin, remark- 

 ably convex, then expanded and gibbous ; flesh watery when 

 moist, white when dry, not scissile. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) 

 and more long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, stuffed then hollow, attenu- 

 ated from the base, slightly sheathed, fibrillose or somewhat scaly, 

 violaceous above, whitish below, of the same colour internally, 

 at length becoming pale, somewhat yellow. Gills sometimes 

 adnate, sometimes emarginate, with a decurrent tooth, crowded, 

 thin, more or less violaceous, bluish-grey-purplish, at length 

 cinnamon. 



Very thin, inodorous, more or less gregarious. Cortina coloured. There 

 is a more slender variety in pine woods, with the stem thin, equal, smooth, 

 and flexuous. 



In woods. Common. Aug.-Oct. 



