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The colour is persistently tawny or fiery -tawny. Casspitose, slightly firm, Hypholoma. 

 very striking. 



About roots of trees, beech, &c. King's Lynn. Glamis. Aug.- 

 Oct. 



Spores pip-shaped, 8x5 mk. C.B.P. ; 14-19 mk. M.J.B. Name— ^rvp, 

 fire ; 0pi|, hair. From the fiery-coloured fibrils. Holmsk. Ot. ii. t. 35. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 424. Hym. Eur. p. 293. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, 

 p. 25. A. lachrymabundus Bull. t. S'zc^. /. 3. Krovibh. t. 42. f. 12-16. 



718. A. velutinus Pers. — Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, lurid 

 when fresh, becoming tawny when half dry, clay-isabelline when 

 dry, hygropha7ious, slightly fleshy, campanulate then expanded, 

 at length obtusely umbonate, Jiot scaly, but when young wholly 

 adpressedly tomentose with fibrils, at length becoming smooth 

 and even ; flesh very thin, of the same colour, fragile. Stem 

 when large 10-12.5 cent. (4-5 in.) long, 12 mm. (X in.) and more 

 thick, when smaller 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, hol- 

 low, t(\\i3\, /ibrilloso-silky, tomentose from the summit to the veil, 

 dingy-clay-colonr. Veil adhering chiefly to the margin of the 

 pileus, woolly, at first white, then becoming black. Gills adfixed, 

 but easily separating (almost free), broad (when larger 8-10 mm., 

 4-5 lin. broad), not much crowded, at first i7iclining to fuscous, 

 with the edge white, then date-brown-fuscous, dotted-black. 



Stature various, often very large. Somewhat casspitose, somewhat fragile. 



On old stumps. Common. July-Oct. 



Spores 6x8 mk. W.G.S. Name — vellus, fleece. Velvety. Pers. Syu. p. 



409. Fr. Motiogr. i. /. 424. Hyi??. Eur. p. 293. Berk. Out. p. 170. t. 11. 



f. 2. C. Hbk. n. 408, partly. S. Mycol. Scot. 12. 385. Seer. n. 399. Inzeng. 



t. 7. /. 2. A. lachrymabundus Sow. t. 41. Abnormal variations Schccff. t. 34. 



Patil. t. 55./. I. 



Var. leiocephalus B. & Br. — Pileus hygrophanous, rugged, 

 smooth except at the margin, where it is fibrillose, pallid as is the 

 stem, whose apex is farinose. 



Densely caespitose ; much smaller than tlie common form, but apparently a 

 mere variety, though a very striking one from its smooth but very rugged disc. 

 On old stumps. Sept. Name — AeZo?, smooth ; Ki^a.\r\, head. From its smooth 

 pileus. B. hf Br. n. 1009*. 



•X-X-X-* Flocculosi. Scales fioccose, superficial , separating. 



719. A. cascus Fr. — Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (1X-3 in.) broad, livid- 

 grey, tan-whitish when dry, somewhat fleshy, oval then expanded, 

 obtuse, smooth, when dry soft and slightly wrinkled, persistently 

 even on the disc. Stem 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2- 

 3 lin.) thick, hollow, ^^{mX, fibrillose, white, delicately white-pul- 



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