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AGARICINI. 



Telamonia. J. Platyphylli (nka-rvs, broad ; (pv\kov, a leaf). Gills very broad, rather 



thick, more or less distant. Stem spongy and 

 wholly fibrous. 



* Stem and cortina white or whitish. 



** Stem and gills violaceous. Cortina 

 commonly white-violaceous, but universal 

 veil white. Very disti?iguished. 



*** Stem and veil reddish or yellow. 

 Gills tawny or cinnamon, neither violaceous 

 nor becoming brown. 



**** Stem becoming fuscous, veil fuscous 

 or dirty, gills dark-coloured. (Inolomata 

 and Dermocybes are often sheathed and 

 ringed, but the pileus is not hygrophanous, 

 and is at the first scaly or silky.) 



II. Leptophylli (Xetttos, thin; <f>v\\ov, 

 a leaf). Gills narrow, thin, more or less 

 crowded. Pileus thin. Stem externally 

 more rigid, somewhat cartilaginous, stuffed 

 or hollow, often attenuated downwards. 

 Stem whitish, pallid, not floccoso-scaly. 

 Stem inclining to violet. 

 *** Stem and pileus tawny, ferruginous. 

 **** Stein floccoso-scaly, and, as well as the pileus, fuscous. 



XL IV. Cort inarms {Telamonia) 

 armillatus. One-fifth natural 

 size. 



* 



I.— Platyphylli. 



* Stem and cortina white or whitish. 



77. C. macropus Fr. — Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, brick- 

 colour, at length becoming ferruginous, fleshy, comparatively 

 thin, convex then flattened, margin at the first inflexed, obtuse, 

 dry, hoary with very small squamules, then becoming smooth ; 

 flesh cinereous. Stem 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent - 

 {Yz-i in.) thick, solid, somewhat equal, stout, fibrillose, dingy 

 whitish, then of the same colour as the pileus. Veil distant from 

 the pileus, woven into a narrow ring, white. Gills adnexed, 

 very broad (1-2.5 cent., }z-i in.), distant, even at the sides, 

 sometimes crenated, sometimes quite entire, pallid then watery 

 cinnamon. 



Pileus not compact. 



In woods. Leigh Wood, Bristol. 



Oct. 



Spores pruniform, finely punctate, 8 mk. Q. Name — /uaicpds, long ; 7rov?, a 

 foot. Long-stemmed. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 71. Hym. Eur. p. 374. Bucknall, 

 Brist. Nat. Soc. Proc. vol. iv. t. 4. 



78. C. bivelus Fr. — Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, tawny- 

 ferruginous, here and there spotted or darker at the disc, not truly 

 hygrophanous, somewhat equally fleshy, convexo-plane, always 

 obtuse, soft, bibulous, smooth or slightly silky only round the 



