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upwards, floccoso-glutinous and concentrico-scaly with the 

 fugitive viscid-floccose Co., tan-ochreous. G. adnate, sub- 

 crowded, whitish-bluish-grey to cinnamon. 



Woods, amongst heather ; common. July-Nov. 4| X 5i X l m - Var. 

 mucosus Fr., firmer, stem even, silky. Woods, pine. 



1024. C. mueifluus Fr. (from the abundant flowing gluten ; muci- 



fluus, flowing with mucus) a b. 

 P. campanulato-expanded, obtuse, reflexed, livid-clay or shaded 

 olivaceous, white-patched with Co. ; marg. striate. -5*/. attenuate 

 downwards, white, with steel-blue gluten forming zones. G. 

 adnate, clay-colour then watery-cinnamon. 



On the ground. Aug. -Oct. 3J x 5 X § in. 



1025. C. elatior Fr. (from its tall growth ; elatus, tall) a b c. 



P. convex o-flat, subreflexed, plicato- wrinkled, light yellow, dull 

 • ochreous, deep orange, whitish, brown, grey or blackish; 

 whitish, violaceous or olivaceous at marg. St. attenuate 

 downwards, longitudinally fibrous, viscid-scaly, whitish, greyish 

 or pale-purplish with a fugitive viscid Co. G. adnate, veined, 

 brown-cinnamon. 



Taste mild. Mixed woods, pine, beech; common. Aug.-Nov. 4jx6|xi|in. 



1026. C. grallipes Fr. (from the long, stilt-like stem ; grallce, stilts, 



pes, a foot) a b. 

 P. flat, umbonate, repand, hygrophanous, ferruginous to ochreous- 

 tan. St. stuffed to hollow, equal, fibroso-striate, yellowish- 

 tawny to ochreous, with a fugacious, arachnoid Co. G. adnate 

 with a decurrent tooth, crowded, clay to cinnamon. 



Caespitose. Mixed woods, grassy places near trees, poplar, oak. Oct. 

 34 X 4f X i\ in. 



1027. C. livido-oehraeeus Berk, (from the livid ochre colour of the 



pileus) a b. 



P. convexo-flat, white, with faint ochre, pale dull-lavender, or 

 faint brown mid. or wholly brownish ; lavender-purplish when 

 young. St. violet, steel-blue or white above, brownish below, 

 with a fugitive Co. which forms an imperfect ochre Z. G. 

 rounded-adnexed, subdistant, ochre to cinnamon ; edge pale. 



Odour none. Woods ; uncommon. Sept. -Oct. 2^ x 2\ X \ in. 



b. Delibutce. 



1028. C. nitidus Fr. (from its shining, beautiful appearance ; nitidus, 



bright) a. 

 P. convex, plane, obtuse then depressed, honey-colour, some- 

 times white. St. clavate, pallid-white or yellowish-tan. G. 

 decurrent, crowded, serrate. 



Subcsespitose. Woods, beech. Autumn. 3J x 3 X £ in. 



