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Amongst grass. May — Oct. Common. 



Pilens 1 in. broad, campanulato-convex, yellow, viscid, shining, margin 

 notched, plicate and striate, pale cinnamon, subtnembranaceous, very deli- 

 cate and tender, smooth, at length almost deliquescent, shining, and snb- 

 ochraceous; giljs_ narrow, slightly ventricose, very minutely adnexed, cinna- 

 mon. Stem 4-5 in, high, 1-1| line thick, striate above, pulverulento-squamu- 

 lose, pale yellow, fistulose, very tender and delicate.— J/. /. B. Sporea 

 salmon colour, '00032 X "OOOlZ in. 



484. Bolbitius apicalis. Smith. " Two-coloured Bolbitius." 



Pilous membranaceous, brown, striate from the first, then pli- 

 cate, liable to split ; disc ochraceous, somewhat fleshy, obscurely 

 umbonate, the difference in colour between the two parts de- 

 fined by a distinct line ; stem hollow, striate, white, minutely 

 pruinose under a lens ; gills somewhat broad, Tentricose, free, at 

 first pressed to the stem, brown. — W. G. Smith, in litt. 



In pastures. Early summer. Staplehurst. 



Spores brown, "00035 X '00025 in. Stem about 2 in. long. Pileus f in. high. 

 — W. G. S. 



485. Bolbititis tener. B. " Delicate Bolbitius." 



Very delicate ; pileus white, moist, conical, elongated ; stem 

 white, bulbous at the base ; gills attenuated behind, nearly free, 

 salmon coloured. — Berk. Outl.p. 183, 1. 12,/. 2. B. albipes, Fr. 

 Mon. Hym. 



Amongst short grass. Apethorpe. 



At first looking like a dry specimen of Ag. Uner. 



Gen. 4. COHTINARIUS, Fr. Epicr. p. 255. 



Spores rusty-ochre, resembling in colour peroxide of iron ; 

 veil universal, of a different texture to the pileus, and consisting 

 of arachnoid threads ; a similar veil is found in Agaricus, but it 

 is there either partial, or continuous with the cuticle of pileus; 

 stem confluent with the hymenophore ; gills adnate, mem- 

 branaceous, persistent, cinnamon-coloured and powdery ; trama 

 floccose. 



Hab. Woods and fields. 



This genus, tbe most natural amongst the Ac/arici/ii, is readily distin- 

 guished by its peculiar habit, but is badly defined by artificial characters j 

 the species are variable in size and changeable in colour; uhen old they 

 present a different appearance to their young state, and are very different 

 when dry to when fresh. — TF. G. S. 



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