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ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Gills white or clear in colour^ never grey ; flesh white. 



I. Striaepedes. 



Stem stont, hollow or imperfectly filled with a spongy- 

 pith ; grooved or fibrillusely striate. 



* Gills broad, rather distant. 

 ** Gills crowded, narrow. 



II. A^ESTIPEDES. 



Stem thin, equal, fistulose or stuffed, even, velvety, 

 floccose, or pruinose. 



* Gills broad, rather distant. 



** Gills very narrow, closely crowded. 



III. Laevipedes. 



Stem thin, equal, fistulose, naked, glabrous (leaving out 

 the base), not conspicuously striate (truly but minutely 

 striate under a lens in C. dryojphila, &c.). 



* Gills broad, lax, usually more or less distant. 

 ** Gills narrow, crowded. 



B. Gills greyish, liygrophanous. 



lY. Tephrophanae. 



Colour brown or greyish. 



Allied to the terminal sections of Tricholoma and CUtocyhe, 

 but known from these by the cartilaginous stem. 



* Gills crowded, very narrow. Some are strong-scentea. 

 ** Gills very broad, rather distant. 



