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473. A. rufo-carneus Berk. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, red- Noianea. 

 brown, somewhat membranaceous, hemispherical, umbilicate, 

 indistinctly fibrilloso-squamulose, margin striate. Stem 6 cent. 



{2)4. in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, incurved at the base 

 where it is slightly thickened, pale rufous, nearly white above, 

 smooth, under a lens minutely fibrillose. Gills adnate, ventricose, 

 attenuated behind, slightly connected and traversed by veins, 

 rose-colour. 



Taste rather bitter. Spores elliptic. 



On grassy heaths. Frequent. Sept. 



Name — ruftis, reddish ; caro, flesh. Berk. Efig. FL v, p. 82. Out. p. 148, 

 C. Hbk. n. 282. Illust. PI. 378. b. S. Mycol. Scot. 7i. 264. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 208. Grevillea, t. TJ.f. 2. 



474. A. icterinus Fr.— Pileus 1-2.5 cent. (;^-i in.) and more 

 broad, light yellow -green, more rarely yellowish-honey-colour, 

 becoming pale when dry, hygrophanous, somewhat membrana- 

 ceous, slightly firm, campanulate soon convex, even wholly reflexed, 

 but never umbilicate, pellucid-striate, smooth, opaque, slightly 

 silky when dry. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 thick, stuffed, rigid, mealy sometimes wholly sometimes at the 

 apex, of the same colour as the pileus, but sometimes fuscous. 

 Gills adnexed, separating, ventricose, dista?tt, pallid, saffron- 

 yellow when rotting. 



The pileus is sometimes here and there sprinkled with superficial flocci ; 

 when luxuriant it is undulated and changeable in form ; disc sometimes 

 obtuse, sometimes papillate, often fuscous and here and there fuscous-squam- 

 ulose. The stem is sometimes compressed and then 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad. In 

 cultivated ground the gills vary free and decurrent, distinct and connected 

 by veins, even crisped and anastomosing. 



In woods and gardens. Edensor. Oct. 



Spores 10-12x8 mk. B. Name — i/crepos, jaundice. From its yellowish- 

 green colour. Fr. Mo?7ogr. i. p. 296. Hym. Eur. p. 209. Icon. t. 99. f. 4. 

 B. &f Br. n. 1415. C. Illust. PI. 338. 



^'^^ Gills shini?ig white theji rosy. Hygrophanous. 



475. A. piceus Kalchbr.— Pileus pitch-black, umber when dry, 

 somewhat membranaceous, conical then campanulate, papillate, 

 without striae, smooth. Stem fistulose, somewhat tough, short, 

 even, delicately priiiiiose, of the same colour as the pileus. Gills 

 emarginate, decurrent with a small tooth, ventricose, somewhat 

 distant, white then flesh-colour. 



Odour of cucumber or fishy. Manifestly allied to A. pisciodorus, but the 

 stem is only 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long. 



