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white, reddish white in the st. at length becoming tawny at the base, thick 

 at the disc, thin at the margin. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 

 9-10 x 6/i, punctate. Smell strong. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Eare. (v.v.) 



453. C. (Tela.) bivelus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 156, fig. 1. 



Bis, twice; velum, a veil. 



P. 5-12 cm., tawny ferruginous, often spotted, or darker at the disc, 

 fleshy, convexo-plane, always obtuse, bibulous, smooth, or slightly 

 silky round the margin, shining, rarely opaque, sometimes rivulose. 

 St. 6-8 x 1-2 cm., dingy white, bulbous, or equally attenuated, fibril- 

 losely villous. Cortina white, sheathing, terminating in a spurious and 

 fugacious ring, thin and vanishing above. Grills ochraceous, then bright 

 tawny cinnamon, adnate, or subemarginate, at first crowded, then 

 subdistant. Flesh white, becoming somewhat ferruginous in the stem, 

 thick, spongy in the stem. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, often 

 pointed at the base, 9-10 x 6-7 /A, 1-2-guttulate, punctate, "almost 

 smooth" Rick. Smell "strong," "pleasant" Quel. Taste mild. Woods, 

 and heaths. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



454. C. (Tela.) bulbosus (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 130. 



Bulbosus, bulbous. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., date brown, becoming fuscous brick colour when dry, 

 fleshy, campanulato-expanded, obtuse, or broadly gibbous, even, ozfibril- 

 losely squamulose towards the margin from the torn epidermis. St. 

 4-7-5 x 1-1-5 cm., paler than the p., becoming whitish, tinged saffron- 

 yellow at the bulbous base, equal. Cortina white, sheathing, forming a 

 fugacious ring. Gills dark, then brown-cinnamon, adnate, broad, sub- 

 distant. Flesh concolorous and pallid when damp, whitish when dry, 

 tinged with saffron-yellow at the base of the St., thick and compact at 

 the disc. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6;u,, minutely 

 verrucose. Smell none, or of radish. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



455. C. (Tela.) urbicus Fr. Grevillea, t. Ill, fig. 8. 



Urbicus, pertaining to the city. 



P. 3-5 cm., clay-whitish, fleshy, convexo-plane, smooth, pitted when 

 larger. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 12-15 mm., concolorous, equal, villous above 

 the ring when young. Cortina white, forming a narrow ring above 

 the middle of the st. Gills watery ferruginous, emarginate, broad, 

 thin, crowded. Flesh whitish, firm. Spores " ochraceous, pruniform, 

 8/i, punctate" Quel. Grassy places. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



456. C. (Tela.) licinipes Fr. Licinium, lint; pes, foot. 

 P. 5-7-5 cm., very pale yellow, tan pallid when dry, fleshy-membra- 



naceous, campanulate, then convex, and flattened, obtusely umbonate, 



