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fibrillose. Gills white, then pink, free, rounded behind, very broad, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thick. Spores elliptical, 7-8 x 5fi. Stumps 

 and rotten wood. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. rigens Pers. Rigens, stiff. 



Differs from the type in the cinereous pileus, with black fibrils, or 

 squamules, and the glabrous, somewhat shining stem. 



93. P. eximius Saund. & Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 303, t. 302. 



Eximius, distinguished. 



P. 6-20 cm., rufescent umber, when young darker, and tinged with 

 carmine round the margin, campanulate, then convex and expanded, 

 viscid pellicle separable. St. 10-14 x 4 cm., pallid, at length becoming 

 blackish, nearly equal, sulcate upwards, fibrillose. Gills white, then pale 

 rose, becoming rufous when bruised, very broad, crowded, free, but 

 very close to the stem. Flesh yellowish, cartilaginous. Spores pink, 

 spherical, but somewhat irregular, 7 x 5 /A. On sawdust. Nov. Rare. 



94. P. patricius Schulz. (= Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Boud. Icon. t. 87. Patricius, noble. 



P. 6-15 cm., white, or greyish, disc covered with brown, hairy, 

 pointed squamules, convex, then expanded, more or less silky; margin 

 lobed, and often split. St. 5-15 x 1-3 cm., white, covered with small 

 whitish squamules that become brownish at the base, equal. Gills 

 white, then flesh colour, free, very broad. Flesh white, firm. Spores pink, 

 elliptical, 5-8 x 3-5/A. On dead logs, stumps. June Sept. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



95. P. petasatus (Fr.) Karst. Cke. Illus. no. 305, t. 303. 



Trerao-o?, a travelling hat with a broad brim. 

 P. 8-15 cm., whitish cinereous, at length somewhat date brown, 

 disc fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, viscid pellicle 

 separable, at length striate to the middle, margin membranaceous. 

 St. 10-20 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid, at length becoming tawny, rigid, fibril - 

 losely-striate, attenuated upwards from the silky base. Gills white, 

 then reddish, at length tawny at the edge, very broad, very crowded, 

 drying up. Flesh white, soft. Spores pink, " broadly oval, 7-5-9 x 4-5- 

 5/A. Cystidia fusoid-bottle-shaped, 11-14/t broad, with a few hooks " 

 Lange. On heaps of straw and dung, sawdust. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



96. P. sororiata Karst. Soror, a sister. 



P. 3-6 cm., yellow, somewhat fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, 

 floccosely-squamulose; margin somewhat striate, often repand. St. 

 6x1 cm., pallid, becoming yellowish, squamulose at the enlarged base. 

 Gills flesh colour, margin at first yellow, rounded behind, free, crowded, 



