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The best examples I can give are the gfroiind coloni- of Tricholoma sc- 

 junctus and the pileus of T. qulnqiiepartitus. 



Vitellinus is the colour of the well-known CanthareUus ciharius. 



Aureus is of course (/olden ; and, it seems to me, inclining to reddish, but I can 

 find no good example but the stern and the edge of the pileus of Cortina- 

 rius malicorius. Sowerby has a figure which he calls Agarieus aureus, 

 and which seems to be like PhoUoia spectahilis, only that the pileus is of a 

 red orange. 



Gilvus I have described above. 



Atirantius is what we call orange, a deep yellow with a good deal of red about it. 

 ArmiUaria aiirantius is a good example. 



Aurantiacus is hardly as red as 'aurantius ' ; the dark form of CUtocyhc renusiissi- 

 mus about represents this shade, while the paler form becomes 'flavidus.' 



Fulfils is the colour of a lion ; " corpora fulva leonum "' ; and is represented in 

 Flammula ahruptus. 



Helvoliis, though closely connected by derivation with 'gilvus,' is scarcely a pure 

 yellow : it is used to describe wine and grapes : but ' fulvus ' is also used 

 of wine ; it seems to be a rich brownish j'ellow tinged with red, like a 

 faded vine-leaf. The best example I could find is a p.ale form of Nau- 

 coria hamadri/as. 



Isabellinus is said to be the colour of the horses of the King of Holland, — a cream 

 colour with a darkish tint in it — the colour of linen that has been worn 

 for some time next tiie skin. 

 I have not been able to find an example of pure ' Croceus.' I think it ought 



to come between ' luteus ' and ' flavidus.' I have taken the colour from a solution 



of saffron. 



The only other colours upon which I shall touch are the ' browns.' 



Badins is a sort of reddish brown : it is the colour of ColhiMa distnrlus and of the 

 upper part of the stem of Miiceaa cohorenx. Fries says that the lower 

 part of the stem is ' spadiceus,' but in his figure the stem seems to me to 

 be all of one colour, and that, something intern.ediate between ' badius ' 

 and 'spadiceus.' Some of Fries' bays are very red, and nearly the colour 

 of a ' sorrel horse. ' 



Spadiceus is a duller and darker colour than 'badius,' and has no red in it : it 

 is the colour of the pileus of Cortinariua variicolor. The name is derived 

 from a palm-branch broken off with its fniit which some Commentators 

 have thought to be ' shining red. ' The date, as we know it, is a rich 

 brown and may well interpret ' spadiceus.' 



Umhrinus is still darker and is the colour of Coi-tincmus uraceus. 



