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at length punctate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., yellow fuscous, equal, 

 undulated, fibrillose; girt with a pallid fuscous zone from the fugacious 

 veil. Gills brown cinnamon, adnate, very distant. Flesh yellowish, 

 thin, firm. Spores ochraceous, "elliptical, 10-12 x 7-Sfi, punctate- 

 warted" Rick. Smell strong. Pine, and beech woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



II. Gills narrow, thin, more or less crowded. P. thin. St. externally 



more rigid, subcartilaginous, often attenuated downwards. 



*St. whitish, pallid, not floccosely scaly. 



480. C. (Tela.) trifonnis Fr. Cke. Ulus. no. 814, t. 790, as var. 

 Schaefferi Fr. Triformis, three formed. 



P. 4-8 cm., fawn colour, brownish, or livid yellowish, then yellowish 

 or honey colour, isabelline, or dingy tan when dry, very hygrophanous, 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, or slightly gibbous, superficially 

 fibrillose, or becoming smooth, at length punctate-dotted, opaque. 

 St. 7-5 cm. x 12 mm., pallid, subbulbous, fragile, rather smooth, 

 ringed upwards with the woven veil, ring distant, white. Gills watery 

 honey colour, then watery cinnamon, adnate, subemarginate, ventricose, 

 8 mm. broad, subdistant, often connected by veins. Flesh whitish, 

 thin, spongy in the st. Spores ferruginous, " fusif orm-elliptical, 9- 

 10 x 4-5/x " Rick. Woods, especially beech. Oct. Uncommon. 



var. fusco-paUens Fr. Fuscus, dark; pollens, pale. 



Differs from the type in the fuscous, umbonate p. becoming pale, and 

 in the narrow (2-4 mm.), watery white gills. Coniferous woods. 



var. melleo-pallens Fr. Melkus, honey colour; palkns, pale. 



Differs from the type in the moist, isabelline yellow p. becoming 

 yellow, in the striate margin and the pallid yellowish, fragile st. Pine 

 woods. 



481. C. (Tela.) bifonnis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 815, t. 869. 



Biformis, two formed. 



P. 3-8 cm., dark, or ferruginous brown, pale date brown and shining 

 when dry, submembranaceous, conical, then campanulate, at length 

 expanded, acutely umbonate, firm, smooth, rarely covered with fuga- 

 cious fibrils. St. 5-10 cm. x 68 mm., paler than the p., attenuated 

 downwards, distinctly striate, adpressedly fibrillose, firm. Ring white, 

 distinct, oblique, interwoven, sometimes obsolete. Gills grey, then 

 watery cinnamon, adnate, or emarginate, attenuated behind, connected 

 by veins, 6 mm. broad, rather crowded, edge often crenulate. Flesh 

 brownish, becoming pale, very thin except at the disc. Spores pale 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4|u,, minutely punctate. Pine, and 

 mixed woods. Oct. Rare. 



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