160 COBTINARIUS 



equal, base bulbous. Gills dirty yellow, rounded behind, 48 mm. 

 broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh white, firm. Smell of radish. 

 Damp beech woods. Sept. Oct. Eare. 



419. C. (Inc.) arenatus (Pers.) Fr. Arena, sand. 

 P. 3-6 cm., pale yellowish fuscous, or olivaceous, fleshy, convex, at 



first gibbous, punctate with granular, floccose, brown squamules. St. 

 5-7 cm. x 6-10 mm., brown, clavato-attenuated, sheathed up to and 

 beyond the middle with fuscous squamules, apex naked, cream colour. 

 Gills yellowish, then cinnamon, emarginate, ventricose, somewhat 

 crowded. Spores "obliquely elliptical, 7 x 5ju," Massee. Fir, and 

 mixed woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



4. Dennocybe Fr. 



(Bepfia, skin; /cvfirj, head.) 



Pileus thinly, and equally fleshy, dry, not hygrophanous, at first 

 silky with subinnate villose down, then smooth. Veil simple, forming 

 a zone in C. caninus. 



*Gills at first whitish, or pallid. 



420. C. (Dermo.) ochroleucus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 764, t. 775. 



&>%/>o9, pale; Xey/co?, white. 



P. 5-8 cm., pale white, or yellowish, disc ochraceous, fleshy, broadly 

 campanulate, then expanded, and somewhat gibbous, slightly silky, 

 becoming smooth. St. 4-7 cm. x 8-12 mm., white, firm, ventricose, 

 naked. Cortina white, fibrillose. Gills clay colour, then ochraceous, 

 sinuato-adnexed, then free, broader behind, 6 mm. broad, crowded. 

 Flesh white, thick at the disc, firm. Spores pale ferruginous, broadly 

 elliptical, 6-8 x 4-5/i, 1-guttulate. Taste bitter. Deciduous woods. 

 Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



421. C. (Dermo.) decumbens (Pers.) Fr. Grevillea, t. 127, fig. 3. 



Decumbens, lying down. 



P. 2'5-4 cm., white, or yellowish, fleshy, firm, convex, then plane, 

 gibbous, then obtuse, silky-shining. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 5-6 mm., shining 

 white, ascending, clavato-bulbous, smooth, apex mealy. Cortina white, 

 silky. Gills white, then clay colour, at length ochre cinnamon, adnexed, 

 4 mm. broad, ventricose, crowded. Flesh white, firm. Spores ochrace- 

 ous, "elliptical, 9-12 x 5-6 /i" Eick. Taste slightly bitter. Woods, 

 and grassy places. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



422. C. (Dermo.) riculatus Fr. Rica, a head veil. 

 P. 5-8 cm., honey colour, but only conspicuously so at the disc, else- 

 where clothed with a very thin, floccose, adpressed silkiness, that makes 

 it appear almost glabrous, fleshy, convexo-plane, slightly gibbous. 

 St. 5-6 cm. x 5-6 mm., pallid, becoming white, thickened downwards, 



