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There are two forms : (A.) Vulgaris. Stem stuffed, stout 

 and firm, usually distinctly attenuated downwards, rarely 

 equal, 3-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, from the position of 

 growth incurved, fibrillosely squamulose, fibrils pale, base 

 ferruginous, veil apical, at first white then blackish, pileus 

 fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, even, glabrous, rather tawny 

 but paler and clouded with the remains of the superficial, 

 white, rather silky veil ; flesh compact, white then yellowish ; 

 gills adnate, more or less crowded, narrow, at first dingy 

 yellowish, base more obscure, then sooty, at length tinged 

 olive. Spores purple-brown. (B.) Pomposus. Stem solid, 

 up to 1 in. thick, subannulate, paler above. Pileus thicker, 

 almost entirely tawny. Gills becoming clear olive. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma capnoides. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1;^ in. across, convex, then plane and subumbonate 

 or depressed, dry, very smooth, yellowish or tinged tawny, 

 flesh thin, white ; gills adnate, not crowded, 2-3 lines broad, 

 dry, sooty-grey then purplish ; stem 2-4 in. long, about 3 

 lines broad, about equal, silky, even, pallid, brownish under 

 the silkiness, partly hollow ; spores elliptical, brownish- 

 purple, 8x4^. 



Afjaricus (^Hypholoma) capnoides, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 289 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 203 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 559. 



In pine woods on the ground and on pine trunks ; fas- 

 ciculate. 



Smell and taste mild. Stem under the whitish silkiness 

 rusty. Pileus one colour, commonly yellowish, veil becoming 

 purplish. 



Caespitose, fasciculate, smell and taste sweet. Stem 

 connate at the base, hollow, 2-3 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, 

 equal, often curved and flexuous, adpressedly silky, pallid, 

 apex white, everywhere striate; when old with a more or 

 less ferruginous down. Veil appendiciilate, white, then 

 purple-brown. Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanf'ed, obtuse, 

 dry, glabrous, yellowish-ochre, from 1-3 in. broad. Flesh 

 rather thin, white. Gills adnate, readily separating from 

 the sporophore, rather crowded and broad, dry, at first grey, 

 then purple brown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma epixanthus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, thin, convex then almost plane, even, 



