60 AGARICINI. 



Hygrocybe. striate and at length innately torn. Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 

 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, stuffed, then fistulose, exactly equal, 

 sometimes tense and straight, sometimes flexuous, but the surface 

 not undulated, fibrillose, pallid, pale rufescent or with brick- 

 coloured spots, somewhat brick -colour internally, externally 

 covered over with a pallid separable cuticle. Cortina fibrillose, 

 white, very fugacious. Gills adnate, more or less crowded, thin, 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, brick-colour-ferruginous. 



It approaches C. castaneus. It belongs to this series though the stem does 

 not incline to violet, but is only reddish-white. There is a remarkable variety 

 with paler pileus, flexuous and smooth stem, and less crowded gills. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Sept. 



Name — decipio, to deceive. Beguiling, cheating. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 109. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 396. B. & Br. n. 1129. C. Hbk. n. 541. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 

 502. Hoffm. Ic. t. 9. f. 2. Grevillea, t. 114../. 3. 



124. C. germanus Fr. — Pileus almost 2.5 cent. (1 in.) broad, 

 remarkably hygrophanous, fuscous when moist, clay-colour when 

 dry, opaque, somewhat membranaceous, campanulate, obtusely 

 umbonate when expanded, fragile, somewhat silky, but not torn 

 into squamules and not striate. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 

 2 mm. (1 lin.) thick, somewhat fistulose, equal, but often twisted, 

 smooth, silvery-pale, somewhat lilac. Cortina fibrillose, fuga- 

 cious. Gills adnate, somewhat distant, broad, watery cinnamon. 



Strong-smelling. 



In pine woods. Logie, Forfarshire. Oct. 



Name — germanus, full brother. Closely related to those next it. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 109. Hym. Eur. p. 397. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 

 1882, p. 217. Quel. Grev. t. 114. f. 2. 



*** Stem yellowish, co?n?nonly becoming pale. 



125. C. detonsus Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( I_2 m -) broad, bright 

 yellowish when moist, tan when dry, somewhat membranaceous, 

 conical then expanded, somewhat umbonate, slightly silky then 

 rather smooth, striate to the middle when moist, even and slightly 

 silky when dry; flesh thin, whitish. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) 

 long, about 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, stuffed then fistulose, equal or 

 attenuated upwards, soft, smooth, pale, the yellowish colour deeply 

 struck into the flesh. Gills adnate, ventricose, distinct, somewhat 

 distant, quite entire, unicolorous, at first bright yellowish then 

 brick-cinnamon. 



Fragile. The umbo is at first acute, gradually vanishing, sometimes 

 darker. Stature almost that of C. decipiens. It occurs much larger with the 

 stem yellowish-brick-colour. 



