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colour, or yellowish, emarginate, adnexed, becoming free, broad, thick, 

 distant, often connected by veins. Flesh whitish, reddish under tJie 

 cuticle. Spores white, pip-shaped, 6 x 4ju,, 1-2-guttulate. Taste mild. 

 Edible. On the ground, and near stumps. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



**Gills narrow, crowded. 



1029. C. maculate (A. & S.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 186, t. 142. 



Maculata, spotted. 



P. 7-12 cm., white, then spotted rufescent, rarely becoming wholly 

 rufescent, fleshy, very compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, repand, 

 smooth; margin thin, involute at first. St. 7-12 x 1-2 cm., white, 

 spotted rufescent, somewhat ventricose, attenuated downwards to the 

 praemorse base, hard, externally cartilaginous, striate. Gills cream 

 colour, often spotted rufescent, emarginato-free, linear, 2-4 mm. broad,. 

 very crowded, denticulate. Flesh white, thick, firm. Spores white, sub- 

 globose, 5-6/z, punctate. Cystidia none. Smell pleasant, or none. 

 Taste unpleasant, bitter. Beech, and pine woods. May Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. immaculate Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 187, t. 221. 



Immaculata, unspotted. 



Differs from the type in not being spotted, and in the broader gills. 

 Pine woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. scorzonerea (Batsch) Fr. Scorzon, a serpent. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, and in becoming yellowish, 

 in the long, rooting often flexuose St., and the yellowish gills. Beech 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1030. C. fodiens Kalchbr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 36, fig. 2. 



Fodiens, digging, 



P. 5-8, flesh colour, becoming yellowish, disc darker yellow, fleshy, 

 firm, convex, obtuse, smooth; margin involute. St. 10-12 cm. x 10- 

 12 mm., white, firm, subventricose, often longitudinally ribbed, smooth, 

 attenuated downwards in a long root deeply sunk in the ground. Gills 

 yellowish white, emarginate, rounded behind, narrow, crowded. Flesh 

 yellowish, thick at the disc, firm. Spores white, elliptical, 6-8 x 4-5 /z, 

 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Grassy places. Oct. Uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1031. C. prolixa (Fl. Dan.) Fr. Prolixa, stretched out. 

 P. 5-12 cm., brick-red ferruginous, becoming paler, fleshy, fragile, 



convex, then plane, gibbous, lax, smooth, margin often irregular. 

 St. 10 x 1-3 cm., brick-red, firm, subequal, sulcate, often scrobiculate, 

 minutely pubescent, fibrillose, base praemorse. Gills white, free, 



