56 AGARICINI. 



Hygrocybe. *** Stem and somewhat obsolete veil yellow or rufous. 



114. C. colus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( I-2 m broad, brown- 

 rufescent, brick -colour paler and shining when dry, somewhat 

 fleshy, small in comparison with the tall stem, campanulate when 

 young, then convex, obtusely umbonate or wholly obtuse, well- 

 formed ; flesh of the same colour, dingy whitish when dry. Stem 

 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick below, only 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) at the apex, stuffed, almost solid, equally attenuated up- 

 wards, encircled with the blood-red myceliiwi at the base, which 

 is sometimes rooted, stiff, naked, not cartilaginous but remarka- 

 bly Jibrillose longitudinally and throughout, scissile, tense and 

 straight, coloured with fibrils of the same colour as the pileus, but 

 paler than the pileus. Cortina entirely fibrillose, tawny-reddish. 

 Gills adnate, scarcely sinuate, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, plane, firm, 

 tough, rather thick, scarcely crowded, veined, dark cinnamon, 

 paler when young. 



Spores ochrey-cinnamon. Mycelium fiery-saffron-yellow. Hym. Eur. 



In woods. Blaize Castle, Bristol. Oct. 



Spores pruniform, 8-9 ink. Q. Name — colus, a distaff. From the remark- 

 ably fibrillose stem. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 102. Hym. Eur. p. 391. Bucknall, 

 Fung. Bristol, pt. vii. p. 3. 



115. C. renidens Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, fer- 

 rugino its- tawny when damp, ochraceous when dry, here and there 

 becoming pale only at the disc, slightly fleshy, firm, convexo- 

 plane, obtuse or gibbous, very smooth, shining; flesh thin, scissile, 

 paler. Stem 4-7.5 cent. (1^-3 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) 

 thick, firm, stuffed, exactly equal, externally somewhat cartilagi- 

 nous, wholly dissolvable however into fibrils, of the same colour 

 as the pileus, yellowish-pale, then tawny. Cortina laxly fibrillose, 

 fugacious, yellow. Gills adnate, but also separating-free, some- 

 what crowded, entire, about 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, at first pallid 

 cinnamon then tawny. 



Spores dark ochraceous. Odour weak, by no means that of radish. Re- 

 markably hygrophanous. Its nature is that of C. armeniacus, but it is smaller, 

 and is readily distinguished by its brighter colour, and especially by the 

 yellow cortina. The pileus is sometimes umbilicate from the hollow apex 

 of the stem. 



In shady woods. Highbeach, Epping. 



Name—renideo, to shine back. Glistening. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 103. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 392. Icon. t. 162./. 1. Grevillea, vol. xi. p. 70. — Paul. t. 54./. 1, 2? 



