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581. A. longicaudus Pers.— Pileus 4-5 cent. (1X-2 in.) broad, Hebeioma. 

 clay-colour, the disc sometimes becoming fuscous, fleshy, not 

 compact, convex then expanded, iimbonate, at length repand, 



even, smooth, viscid ; flesh soft, watery, but not hygrophanous. 

 Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) loiig, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, hollow, fragile, 

 equal or thickened at the base, obsoletely Jibrillose, w^hite, ?nealy at 

 the apex, at length becoming tawny at the base. No cortina 

 manifest. Gills arcuato-adnate, crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 white-clay, at length cinnamon, sen'ulated and so7)iewhai dotted at 

 the edge. 



Odour weak, not unpleasant, in no wise that of radish. 



In woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 11x6 mk. W.G.S. Name — longus, long; cauda, a tail. Long- 

 stemmed. Pers. Syn. p. 332. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 331. Hym. Eur. p. 241. 

 Berk. Out. p. 157. t. 9. /. 2. C. Hbk. n. 315. Illust. PI. 415. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 315. Batt. t. 21. F. Var. radicatus C. Illust. PL 416. 



582. A. lugens Jungh. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 brown, becoming somewhat yellov*^, fleshy, convexo-plane, smooth, 

 somewhat viscid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 

 lin.) thick, solid, shining, Jibrilloso-striate, somewhat bulbous, 

 white-mealy at the apex. Gills somewhat free, fragile, crowded, 

 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, pallid then ferruginous, creiiulated and 

 darker at the edge. 



Odour strong, but not of radish. 



Under beech. Lyndhurst. 



Name — lugeo, to mourn. Sombre in colour. Jungh. in Linn. v. p. 399. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 241. B. fr" Br. n. 1762. — Sterb. t. 19. H. 



583. A. truncatus Schjeff.— Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 somewhat rufous, paler round the margin, compactly fleshy, convex 

 then flattened, very obtuse, inidulato-repaiid, very irregular, even, 

 smooth or obsoletely superficially-silky round the margin which 

 is at first inflexed and naked, scarcely viscous ; flesh thick, white. 

 Stem scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) thick, 

 solid, robust, quite equal, white, the whole delicately priiinate tinder 

 a lens, not fibrillose or squamulose. Cortijia none. Gills eniajgi- 

 natofree, narrower behind, crowded, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, 

 arid and not spotted, white then soon becoming pale or flesh- 

 white, at length watery ferruginous, edge quite entire, but some- 

 what repand. 



It varies with the pileus becoming pale, disc clay-coloured, margin white, 

 and the gills very crisped, branched and anastomosing. Odour weak, not 

 unpleasant. 



