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There are two forms : (A.) Vulgaris. Stem stuffed, stout 

 and firm, usually distinctly attenuated downwards, rarely 

 equal, 3-4 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, from the position of 

 growth incurved, fibrillosely squamulose, fibrils pale, base 

 ferruginous, veil apical, at first white then blackish, pileus 

 fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, even, glabrous, rather tawny 

 but paler and clouded with the remains of the superficial, 

 white, rather silky veil ; flesh compact, white then yellowish ; 

 gills adnate, more or less crowded, narrow, at first dingy 

 yellowish, base more obscure, then sooty, at length tinged 

 olive. Spores purple-brown. (B.) Pomposus. Stem solid, 



Zto 1 in. thick, subannulate, paler above. Pileus thicker, 

 ost entirely tawny. Gills becoming clear olive. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma capnoides. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1 \ in. across, convex, then plane and subumbonate 

 or depressed, dry, very smooth, yellowish or tinged tawny, 

 flesh thin, white ; gills adnate, not crowded, 2-3 lines broad, 

 dry, sooty-grey then purplish ; stem 2-4 in. long, about 3 

 lines broad, about equal, silky, even, pallid, brownish under 

 the silkiness, partly hollow ; spores elliptical, brownish- 

 purple, 8 x 4 p.. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma} capnoides, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 289 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 203 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 559. 



In pine woods on the ground and on pine trunks ; fas- 

 ciculate. 



Smell and taste mild. Stem under the whitish silkiness 

 rusty. Pileus one colour, commonly yellowish, veil becoming 

 purplish. 



Caespitose, fasciculate, smell and taste sweet. Stem 

 connate at the base, hollow, 23 in. long, 24 lines thick, 

 equal, often curved and flexuous, adpressedly silky, pallid, 

 apex white, everywhere striate; when old with a more or 

 less ferruginous down. Veil appendiculate, white, then 

 purple-brown. Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, 

 dry, glabrous, yellowish-ochre, from 1-3 in. broad. Flesh 

 rather thin, white. Gills adnate, readily separating from 

 the sporophore, rather crowded and broad, dry, at first grey, 

 then purple brown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma epixanthus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, thin, convex then almost plane, even, 



