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ferruginous, margined zone formed by the woven veil. Gills tawny, then 

 dark cinnamon, very emarginate, 8 mm. broad, distant, thick, often 

 veined at the base, opaque. Flesh tawny, firm, fuscous ferruginous in 

 the st. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/Lt, verrucose " Rick. 

 Woods, and wooded pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



469. C. (Tela.) hinnuleus (Sow.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 803, t. 805. 



Hinnuleus, a young stag. 



P. 3-6 cm., pallid tawny cinnamon, becoming pale, shining when dry, 

 fleshy, campanulato-expanded, obtuse, or obtusely umbonate, some- 

 times depressed at the disc, smooth ; margin at first silky and white. 

 St. 2-5-10 cm. x 4-12 mm., dingy tawny, or fuscous, equal, or attenu- 

 ated downwards, rigid, white-silky with the adpressed silky veil, and 

 white-zoned above with the membranqceous, or fibrillose veil, which is 

 often oblique, or fugacious. Gills ochraceous, then tawny ferruginous, 

 more or less emarginato-adnexed, 8-10 mm. broad, distant, thin, often 

 connected by veins. Flesh concolorous, often reddish in the st., thick 

 at the disc, firm. Spores ferruginous, pip-shaped, 9-10 x 6-7 /A, 

 granular. Smell strong, slightly of radish, or none. Taste mild, then 

 slightly acrid. Woods, and heaths. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



470. C. (Tela.) gentilis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 159, fig. 2. 



Gentilis, of the same race. 



P. 1-4 cm., tawny cinnamon, yellow when dry, very hygrophanous, 

 fleshy, conico-expanded, then flattened, acutely umbonate, rimosely 

 incised, often somewhat silky. St. 6-9 cm. x 2-8 mm., concolorous, 

 equal, or attenuated at the base, often curved, fibrillose, veil forming 

 one or more oblique, yellow annular zones, sometimes floccoso-scaly 

 below the ring, base white tomentose. Gills yellow, then tawny cinna- 

 mon, adnate, thick, very distant, often connected by veins. Flesh con- 

 colorous, thin at the margin. Spores bright ochraceous, elliptical, or 

 pip-shaped, 7-8 x 6/x, granular, 1-guttulate. Gregarious. Woods, 

 especially pines, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



471. C. (Tela.) helvelloides Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 159, fig. 3. 



Helvella, the genus Helvella; eZSo?, like. 



P. 1-3 cm., ferruginous, becoming tawny when dry, submembranaceous, 

 convex, then flattened, umbonate, smooth, rarely fibrillose when 

 young, substriate when moist, cracked and squarrose when more fully 

 grown. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., subferruginous, equal, very undulate 

 and flexuose, apex white silky and glittering, veil forming a yellow, 

 ring-like zone at the apex. Gills violaceous umber, then ferruginous, 

 adnate, rather broad, very thick, very distant, edge white-fioccose. Flesh 

 ferruginous in the St., very thin at the disc. Spores ferruginous, 

 "elliptical, 9-10 x 5-5-5/Lt, verrucose" Rick. Moist woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



