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margin, commonly shining, rarely opaque, sometimes rimulose. Telamonia. 

 Stem solid, fleshy-spongy, sometimes bulbous, sometimes longer, 

 equally attenuated, more frequently curt, thick, dingy white, inter- 

 nally somewhat ferruginous. The exterior veil villous, sheathing, 

 white, terminating in a spurious and fugacious ring, above which 

 the thin cortina is vanishing. Gills adnate or somewhat emargi- 

 nate, at first somewhat crowded, then somewhat distant, more or 

 less broad, bright tawny-cinnamon. 



The pileus is pierced as with pores, a feature which is peculiar to most of 

 the Telamonice, and which seems to have its origin in larvae. Growing in 

 troops, strong smelling, taste pleasant. The stem is in no wise more rigid 

 externally, like that of the somewhat similar C. subferrugineus. There is a 

 variety in which the pileus is campanulate and lax. 



In woods. Coed Coch. Glamis. Sept. 



Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 8-10x5-6 mk. K. Name — bis, velum, with 

 double veil. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 72. Hym. Eur. p. 375. Icon. t. 156./". 1. 

 B. 6^ Br. n. 1271. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 483. Quel. Grev. t. in./. 7. 



79. C. bulbosus Fr. — Pileus about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, date- 

 brown when moist, fuscous-brick when dry, unequally fleshy, 

 campaniilato-expaiided, obtuse or broadly gibbous, even, or fibril- 

 loso-squamulose towards the margin from the torn epidermis; 

 flesh of the same colour when damp, only pallid, whitish when 

 dry, more compact at the disc. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 solid, bulbous, paler than the pileus, thinly sheathed and fuga- 

 ciously ringed with the white veil. Gills adnate, somewhat 

 distant, broad, at the very first dark, then brown-cinnamon, but 

 never becoming violet. 



The pileus is generally smooth, but here and there torn into fibrils towards 

 the margin, like C. armillatus with which it is remarkably analogous. Stem 

 somewhat saffron-yellow at the base and internally. It differs from the Inolo- 

 mata in the hygrophanous pileus, and from the Hygrocybes in the gills. 



In woods. Rare. 



Name — bulbus, a bulb. From the bulbous stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 73. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 375. Berk. Out. p. 191. C. Hbk. n. 523. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 

 484. Ag. Sow. t. 130. 



80. C. urbicus Fr. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, clay-whitish, 

 fleshy, convexo-pla?ie, obtuse, always smooth, but pitted when 

 larger; flesh firm, whitish. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, as 

 much as 12 mm. {% in.) thick, solid, equal, zoned above the 

 middle with a narrow white ring, when young villous above 

 the ring. Gills emarginate, crowded, thin, broad, watery fer- 

 ruginous. 



