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Under Scotch firs and elm. Near Taunton. Oct. Tricholoma. 



Var. Pileus about lo cent. (4 in.) across, irregularly lobed and undulated, 

 m-nutely scaly, grey: stem about 5 cent. (2 in. ) high, thicker upward, buff, 

 yelow at the base ; gills rather wide, pallid. Smell strong, like that of cheese. 

 B.^Br. Spores 6x4 mk. W.G.S. Name — koAoo-o-os, a gigantic statue. 

 Fr. Monogr. p. 47. Hym. Eur. p. 50. Icon. t. 21, 22. C. Hbk. n. 61. 

 Ilhst. PL 75. B. b' Br. ?i. 1190, var. 



6J. A. nictitans Fr. — Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more broad, 

 beconmg yellow, disc darker, fleshy, but thin, convex then flat- 

 tenei, obtuse, eveii, smooth, viscid ; flesh white. Stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in) long, 12 mm. {Yz in.) thick, solid, fleshy, equal or atten- 

 uatec upwards, truncate at the base, dry, sqiiaiimlose at the apex, 

 pallid light-yellow. Gills round ed-adnexed, crowded, rather broad, 

 somevhat ventricose, and without a decurrent tooth, light-yellow, 

 when old here and there with rufescent spots. 



Inodorous, mild. Distinguished from A. flavobrun7ietis by the stem not 

 being vi:cous and not attenuated but rather thickened at the base, blunt, be- 

 coming 3ellow, by the pileus being moderately thin, not streaked, and by the 

 gills beirg at first rounded-free without a decurrent tooth, and at length (when 

 the pileuj is depressed) only obtusely adnexed to the stem. 



In woods. Rare. Sept. 



Spores 9 X 6 mk. W.G.S. Name — nictitans, winking. Meaning not 

 apparent Fr. Mo7iogr. \. p. 56. Hym. Eur. p. 50. Berk. Out. p. 98. C. Hbk. 

 n. 43. Ilust. PL 56. Hussey, ii. /. 46. BulL t. 574. /i i. 



* A. fulvellus Fr. — Pileus pale -yellowish -rufescent or tan 

 colour, leshy, convex, plane, viscous, even, the darker disc dotted- 

 wri?iklel. Stem stuffed then hollow, fibrillose, whitish-rufescent, 

 naked £t the apex. Gills rounded then emarginate, crowded, 

 white, rufescent. 



Sometines very small, scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.). Inodorous. Subjoined to 

 A. nictitins on the authority of Bulliard ; it seems nearer to A. flavobrunneus, 

 to which it is very similar in habit, and to A. ustalis, although very different 

 in appeaiance. 



In woods. Coed Coch, &c. Oct. 



Spores 4 mk. W.G.S. Name — diminutive oi fulvus, tawny. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 50. Berk. Out. p. 98. C. Hbk. ?i. 44. Illust. PL S7- A. fulvus 

 lutL t. 555. /. 2. 



69. A. flavobrunneus Fr.— Pileus 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) broad, 

 •ufous-tawny with a darker disc or altogether reddish -brown, 

 ^eshy, conico- convex then flattened, broadly gibbous, viscous, 

 ■itreaked with fibrils or innately squamulose (not torn) ; flesh 

 moderately compact, white, but that of the stem either wholly 

 or at least at the circumference sulphur -yellow. Stem 7.5-12.5 



