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Smell strong, somewhat of radish. Gregarious. Woods, especially 

 beech, and damp places. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



***St. and p. tawny, ferruginous. 



486. C. (Tela.) psammocephalus Fr. non Bull. Cke. Illus. no. 818, 

 t. 839, fig. A. ^a//,yu,o<?, sand; K(j)a\^, head. 



Entirely tawny cinnamon, becoming pale and somewhat golden when 

 dry. P. 2-5-5 cm., fleshy, convex, then plane, at length umbonate and 

 revolute, broken up into minute furfuraceous squamules. St. 2-5- 

 5 cm. x 4-8 mm., somewhat attenuated downwards, sheathed with 

 the continuous, squamulose veil. Cortina fibrillose. Gills at length 

 darker, umber cinnamon, sinuato-adnate, 4 mm. broad, crowded. 

 Flesh concolorous, or yellowish, thin. Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 

 9-10 x 5-6ju, 1-2-guttulate, minutely verrucose. Woods, and char- 

 coal heaps. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



487. C. (Tela.) incisus (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 160, fig. 1. 



Incisus, cut into. 



P. 1-3 cm., tawny ferruginous, opaque, more rarely date brown, or 

 olivaceous fuscous, fleshy, conico-convex, then expanded, very acutely 

 or obsoletely umbonate, naked, then, especially in dry weather, torn 

 into fibrils, or scales, even and shining when scorched by the sun. St. 

 2-5-10 cm. x 2-6 mm., tawny or ochraceous, equal, flexuose, fibrillose, 

 veil forming a woven, white ring, sometimes obsolete. Gills cinnamon- 

 ferruginous, adnate, subdistant. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores 

 ochraceous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6/n, 1-guttulate, rough. Subcaespitose, 

 or in troops. Woods, heaths, and dried up swamps. Sept. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



488. C. (Tela.) iliopodius Fr. tXv?, mud; TTOU?, foot. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., opaque cinnamon, tan when dry, fleshy, conical, then 



expanded, generally acutely umbonate, silky with hoary fibrils, then 

 becoming smooth. St. 2-5-10 cm. x 2-4 mm., tawny, becoming fus- 

 cous, subcartilaginous, equal, flexuose, elastic, sheathed to the middle 

 by the white veil which becomes even and silky, cortinately ringed 

 where the sheathing ends, apex naked, fibrillosely striate. Gills cinna- 

 mon, adnate, thin, somewhat crowded. Flesh of st. saffron cinnamon, 

 thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6 /x, with a large central 

 gutta, punctate. Woods, especially pine and beech. July Dec. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



****St. floccosely scaly, and, as well as the p., fuscous. 



489. C. (Tela.) hemitrichus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 820, t. 825. 



r)jj,t,, half; Opil;, hair. 



P. 2-5-8 cm., dark fuscous, fuscous tan when dry, umbo generally 

 persistently dark, fleshy, convexo-expanded, acutely or obtusely 



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