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a. CliduchicB. Partial veil depending in the form of a ring from 



the apex of the nearly equal or clavate stem. 



Gills pallid then clay-colour. 974 — 980 



Gills violaceous or purplish then cinnamon. 981 — 985 



Gills yellow, cinnamon, ferruginous, not at first whitish or 



violaceous. 986, 987 



Gills olivaceous. 988 — 990 



b. Scaurce. Stem fleshy-fibrous, marginato-bulbous, rounded 



bulbous in 988 and 1007. Cortina commonly inferior, 

 arising from the margin of the bulb. Gills more or less 

 sinuate. 

 Gills whitish, then clay-colour or pale cinnamon. 991 — 994 

 Gills violaceous, dark blue, purplish, then pale cinnamon. 



995—998 

 Gills ferruginous, tawny or yellow. 999 — 1005 



Gills olivaceous. 1006 — 1009 



c. Elasticce. Veil simple, thin, fugacious, median or inferior. 



Pileus usually somewhat thin, often hygrophanous. Stem 

 commonly thin, not usually bulbous, generally attenuate 

 upwards, rigid-elastic, externally subcartilaginous, lustrous, 

 usually becoming hollow. 



Gills whitish, then clay-colour or dull cinnamon. 1010 — 1014 

 Gills violaceous, purplish or flesh-coloured. 1015 — 1017 



Gills usually ochre, tawny or ferruginous. 1018 — 1021 



a. Cliduckiee. 



974. C. triumphans Fr. (from the appearance of the stem, like an 



enwreathed triumphal column) a b e. 

 P. convexo-plane, obtuse, yellow; marg. fringed with Co. 

 St. striate, yellow, with transverse evanescent bands of sienna 

 rings and an imperfect Z. G. emarginate, crowded. Flesh 

 white or sulphur. 



Grassy ground, woods, under birch ; rare. Sept. -Oct. 5 J X 5 J X £ in. 



975. C. elarieolor Fr. (from the clear colour • clarus, clear) a b c. 

 P. convexo-plane or depressed, often broken into sc. ; marg. 



fringed with Co. St. white-scaly. G. emarginate or adnate, 

 sometimes almost free, crowded. 

 Mixed woods, under birch, amongst heather. Aug.-Nov. 4J X 4^ x f in. 



976. C. turmalis Fr. (from growing in troops, turma) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, yellow tan ; marg. fringed with Co. St. 

 evanescent, white or faintly ochreous-woolly, zoned. G. 

 variously attached, crowded, serrate. 



Densely ca;spitose. Mixed woods, chiefly beech, larch. Sept. -Oct. 

 Zi X 4i X § in. 



