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forming a median ring. Gills pallid, then bright ochraceous cinnamon', 

 rounded, emarginate, or decurrent by a tooth, crowded, thin. Flesh 

 pallid. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 6-7 x ip, "punctate" Rick. 

 Smell strong, taste very bitter. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



396. C. (Myx.) pluvius Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 744, t. 769. Pluvius, rainy. 

 P. 1-5-3 cm., pale yellow-tawny when moist, ochraceous tan and 



opaque when dry, slightly fleshy, somewhat globose, then convex, 

 commonly gibbous, slightly pellucidly striate when more fully grown, 

 hygrophanous, viscid, shining in rainy weather. St. 4-6 cm. x 4-6 mm., 

 white, then yellow and concolorous, soft, equal, or slightly attenuated 

 upwards, slightly viscid, silky. Cortina white, fibrillose, slightly viscid, 

 soon fugacious. Gills light yellowish, or at the first whitish, then ochrace- 

 ous, adnexed, separating, ventricose, crowded. Flesh pale yellowish, 

 becoming white. Spores deep ochraceous, broadly elliptical, 9-10x7- 

 8/t, 1-guttulate. Taste watery, then acrid and pungent. Woods, 

 especially pine. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



3. Inoloma Fr. 



(i9, fibre; \w/j,a, fringe.) 



Pileus equally fleshy, dry, at first fioccose, fibrillose, velvety, pubescent, 

 or silky, then becoming somewhat smooth. Veil simple. 



*Gills at first white, or pallid. 



397. C. (Ino.) opiums Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 151, fig. 1. Opimus, plump. 

 P- 7-10 cm., tan colour, fleshy, very thick, very hard, convex, then 



plane, deformed, repand, everywhere covered with short tan coloured 

 tomentum, then rimoso-rivulose ; margin involute, pruinose, white, 

 often split. St. 2-5-5 x 2-5 cm., whitish, covered with the white fibrils 

 of the veil, attenuated at the base and rooting. Gills whitish, then clay 

 colour, emarginate, much narrower than the flesh of the p., somewhat 

 crowded, flexuose. Flesh whitish, firm. Spores ochraceous, "sub- 

 globose, 8-9 x 7-8 /A, warted" Rick. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Woods, especially conifers. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. fulvobrunneus Fr. Fulvus, tawny; brunneus, brown. 



P. tawny brown, undulated, thinner (margin thin), glabrous, rimoso- 

 rivulose. St. 3-5 x 2-5 cm., attenuated downwards, fibrillosely striate. 

 Gills very broad. 



398. C. (Ino.) argutus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 151, fig. 2. Argutus, pointed. 

 P. 7-10 cm., clay ochraceous, or deep ochraceous, fleshy, broadly 



conico-campanulate, soon convex, somewhat gibbous, at length plane, 



