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smooth. Cortina pallid, fibrillose. Gills clay colour, at length watery 

 ferruginous, adnate, 4 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. Flesh pallid, 

 fairly thick, spongy in the st. Spores "pale brown in the mass, oval, 

 8-11 x 6-7 /x " Herpell. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



423. C. (Denno.) tabularis (Bull.) Fr. Tabula, a board. 

 P. 48 cm., clay or fuscous clay colour, sometimes tawny, becoming 



pale, fleshy, convexo-plane, broadly gibbous, at length very flat, veiled 

 at first with very thin, white flocci, which rarely in wet weather are col- 

 lected in a zone at the margin, becoming smooth; margin silky. St. 

 5-8 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, becoming pale, tough, elastic, equal, or 

 attenuated upwards, erect, either floccosely scaly, or smooth. Cortina 

 white, fugacious. Gills whitish, then clay colour, subemarginate, 6 mm. 

 broad, thin, crowded. Flesh white, thick. Spores ferruginous, pip- 

 shaped, 9 x 6/z. Woods. Common, (v.v.) 



424. C. (Denno.) camurus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 154, fig. 1. 



Camurus, crooked. 



P. 5-8 cm., fuscous, often hoary, becoming pale, pallid yellowish, 

 umbo deeper in colour, fleshy, campanulate, then convex, with a broad, 

 obtuse, often oblique umbo, rimosely incised when dry. St. 4-8 cm. 

 x 7-14 mm., white, equal, ascending, flexuose, or twisted, fibrillose, 

 apex silvery-shining, very fragile. Gills grey clay colour, then watery 

 cinnamon, and somewhat fuscous, adnate, or sinuate, 6 mm. broad, 

 thin, crowded. Flesh white, fuscous under the cuticle when moist, thin 

 at the margin, loose. Spores ferruginous, subglobose, 7 x 6/z, multi- 

 guttulate. Smell unpleasant. Often caespitose. Woods, especially 

 birch, and beech. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



425. C. (Denno.) diabolicus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 765, t. 816, fig. B. 



8iay3o\o9, the Devil. 



P. 2-5-7 cm., fuscous with a grey bloom, becoming smooth and fuscous 

 yellow, fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, hemispherical, obtuse, or 

 umbonate, dry, fragile, often splitting at the margin. St. 4-8 cm. x 4- 

 10 mm., pale, bluish grey at the apex, attenuated downwards, smooth. 

 Cortina fugacious. Gills pale bluish grey, soon becoming white, at length 

 clay colour, adnate, separating, subemarginate, 4-6 mm. broad, firm, 

 somewhat crowded. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores "subglobose, 8- 

 10 x 7-8/z, punctate " Rick. Beech woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



**Gills at first violaceous, becoming purple. 



426. C. (Dermo.) azureus Fr. Quel. Jur. et. Vosg. t. 24, fig. 4. 



Azureus, sky blue. 



P. 3-6 cm., lilac, becoming hoary, then fuscous, and pallid, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, silky-shining, atomate. St. 6-8 cm. x 8- 



B. B. B. 11 



