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throughout or becoming so abruptly near the margin, scissile. 



(Fig. 57.) 



The species are mostly large and handsome. Species 1086 — 1128 



a. Platyphyllce. Gills broad. 



Stem and Cortina white or whitish. 1086 — 1092 



Stem violaceous. Cortina usually white-violaceous. Universal 

 Veil white. Gills violaceous. 1093 — 1098 



Stem and Veil reddish or yellow, except 1104. Gills tawny or 

 cinnamon, neither violaceous nor becoming brown. 



1099—1107 



Stem becoming fuscous. Veil fuscous or dull. Gills dark 

 coloured. 1108 — 1114 



b. Leptophyllce. Pileus thin. Stem externally more rigid, sub- 



cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, often attenuate downwards. 

 Gills more or less crowded, thin, narrow. 



Stem whitish, pallid, not floccoso-scaly. 1115, 1116 



Stem inclining to violet. 1117 — 1119 



Pileus and Stem tawny, ferruginous. 1120 — 1122 



Pileus fuscous. Stem floccoso-scaly, fuscous. 1123 — 1128 



a. Platyphyllce. 



1086. C. maeropus Fr. (from the long stem ; Gr. makros, long, pons, 



a foot) a c. 



P. convex, obtuse, flat, brick-red to ferruginous, hoary with 

 small sc. St. solid, equal, fibrillose, dull whitish, then as P., 

 zoned. G. adnexed or adnate, distant, pallid to watery 

 cinnamon. 



Woods, moist places. Oct. 3^ X 6J x J i n - 



1087. C. laniger Fr. (from the woolly pileus ; lana, wool) a. 



P. hemispherical, expanded, obtuse, bright tawny, clad with 



white sc. St. solid, equal, white, annulate or bi-annulate. 



G. rounded-adnexed, tawny-saffron. 



Odour strong. Woods, larch, pine, beech, mossy places. Sept. 

 3J x 6 x % in. 



1088. C. bivelus Fr. (from the double veil ; bis, double, velum, a veil) 



a c. 



P. convex, obtuse, plane, tawny-ferruginous ; mid. spotted or 

 darker. St. solid, clavato-bulbous, dull whitish, squarrose 

 below. G. adnexo-rounded, bright tawny-cinnamon. 



Taste mild ; odour strong. Woods. Sept. -Oct. 3§ X 3 X \ in. 



1089. C. bulbosus Fr. (from the bulbous stem) a b. 



P. campanulato-expanded, gibbous, olivaceous, or date-brown to 

 reddish-fuscous. St. solid, paler than P., yellow below, 

 fugaciously zoned white. G. adnate, subdistant, cinnamon, 

 never violet. 



Odour of radish. Woods, mossy places ; rare. Sept. -Oct. 3±X3f x£ in. 



