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first, then generally repand and broken up into squamules. St. 10- 

 13 x 2-5 cm., light yellow, equal, or ventricose, wholly fibrillose, apex 

 pruinose. Veil fibrillose, very fugacious. Gills light yellow, then some- 

 what ferruginous, emarginate, 6 mm. broad, arid, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh becoming yellow, compact, firm, very thick in the st. Spores 

 ferruginous, "elliptical, 12 x 6ju," Massee. Smell weak, not un- 

 pleasant. Coniferous woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



756. H. sinuosum Fr. (= Hebeloma senescens Batsch sec. Quel.) 



full of curves. 



P. 7-5-15 cm., never equalling the length of the st., pale yellow, or 

 brick-red becoming pale, rarely clay colour, fleshy, irregular, convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, smooth, viscid, soon dry, very sinuosely repand; 

 margin whitish, membranaceous, inflexed, exceeding the gills, crenu- 

 late, striate. St. 5-15 x 2-5-3-5 cm., white, equal, generally oblique 

 at the very base, fibrillosely striate, apex at first fioccosely squamulose. 

 Gills dirty white, then becoming ferruginous, slightly adnexed, broadly 

 emarginate and appearing free and distant, but connected with the 

 st. by a slender tooth, 6-12 mm. broad, dry, crowded, often undulate. 

 Flesh white, thick, soft, somewhat fragile. Spores ferruginous, 

 "almond-shaped-oval, 10-12 x 7-9 /z, slightly rough. Cystidia on 

 edge of gill clavate, 50-60 x 7-9/x," Rick. Smell fruity. Coniferous 

 woods. Aug. Rare. 



757. H. fastibile Fr. Fr. Icon. t. Ill, fig. 2. Fastibile, disagreeable. 

 P. 4-8 cm., pale yellowish tan, or becoming pale, fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, obtuse, somewhat repand, smooth; margin involute, pubescent. 

 St. 4-8 cm. x 6-12 mm., white, or pallid, fleshy fibrous, somewhat 

 bulbous, often twisted, white silky and fibrillose, white scaly upwards. 

 Cortina white, silky, often in the form of a ring. Gills pale-white, then 

 dingy clay colour, very emarginate, rather broad, subdistant, edge 

 whitish, distilling drops in rainy weather. Flesh white, compact. 

 Spores earth colour, pale under the microscope, pip-shaped, 9-11 x 5- 

 6ju,, "punctate. Cystidia on edge of gill filamentous-clavate, 50- 

 75 x 6-9/x" Rick. Smell unpleasant, taste of radish, bitterish. 

 Poisonous. Woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. album Fr. Album, white. 



Differs from the type in the long, equal stem, fibrillosely squamose 

 at the apex, and in the distant gills. 



var. sulcatum Lindgr. Sulcatum, furrowed. 



Differs from the type in the sulcate, or rugose plicate margin of the p. 



var. elegans Massee. Elegans, nice. 



Differs from the type in the purple-brown p. 



