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thick, somewhat veined at the base, opaque, tawny, then dark Telamonia. 

 cinnamon. 



The stem in the largest form is 20 cent. (8 in.) long, almost 2.5 cent. (1 in.) 

 thick, attenuated at the base; intermediate, 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 8 mm. 

 (4 lin.) thick ; smaller, 5 cent. (2 in.) long, attenuated from the base, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick at the apex. Flesh slightly tawny. Stem at length fuscous- 

 ferruginous externally and internally. 



In mixed woods. Coed Coch. Glamis. Sept.-Oct. 



Name — helvolus, pale yellow. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 85. Hym. Eur. p. 379. 

 B. & Br. n. 1355. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 490. Bull. t. 531./. 1 (except white 

 flesh). 



92. C. hinnuleus Fr. — Pileus pallid tawny-cinnamon, becom- 

 ing pale, shining when dry, fleshy-membranaceous, campanulato- 

 expanded, obtuse or obtusely umbonate, sometimes depressed in 

 the centre, even, smooth, often pierced with dotted points ; flesh 

 of the same colour. Stem 2.5-10 cent. (1-4 in.) long, stuffed, but 

 commonly pierced by larvae, equal or atte?iuated downwards, rigid, 

 dingy tawny and sometimes fuscous, but white-silky with the 

 addressed silky veil and white-zoned above with the woven veil. 

 Gills more or less emarginato-adnexed, distant, but thin, the edge, 

 which is of the same colour, acute and quite entire, 8-10 mm. 

 (4-5 lin.) broad (semiovate when smaller), connected by veins, 

 plane, saffron-tawny. 



Varying much in stature. Stem sometimes short 2.5 cent. (1 in.) long, 

 sometimes 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, sometimes elongated 

 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) and flexuous. It departs from all the others in this 

 group in the white veil. The above is the earlier form in birch wood. B. 

 later among poplar. Stem at length hollow, wholly fibrous, internally dark 

 tawny, externally pale with the silky fibrils, ring obsolete ; but the pileus 

 (somewhat membranaceous, conico-expanded, acutely or obtusely umbonate, 

 darker, yellowish when dry and at length rimosely torn) is silky round the 

 margi?is. Gills adnate, distinct, opaque, slightly tawny then cinnamon. Very 

 small form, stem 12 mm. (% in.), gills very broad. 



In mixed woods. Common. Sept.-Oct. 



Name — hinnuleus, fawn. Fawn-coloured. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 86. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 380. Berk. Out. p. 192. C. Hbk. n. 528. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 491. 

 Sow. t. 173. Quel. Grev. t. 113./*. 1. 



93. C. gentilis Fr. — Pileus 1-2.5 cent - (%-* i n -) broad, tawny- 

 cinnamon, yellow when dry, very hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, 

 conico-expanded, then flattened, acutely umbonate, rimosely in- 

 cised, varying somewhat silky ; flesh thin and of the same colour. 

 Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) and more long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed then hollow, slender, equal or attenuated at the base, often 

 curved, fibrillose, of the same colours as the pileus when moist 

 and dry, never becoming pale. Veil forming an annular zone, 



