14 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



equal or attenuated, rigid externally, elastic or fragile, 

 stuffed then hollow. Veil simple, fibrillose (in C. caninus 

 forming a zone round the stem). 



V. TELAMONIA. Fries, S. M., i. p. 210. 



Pileus hygrophanous, moist, at first glabrous or sprinkled 

 with the whitish superficial fibrils of the veil, flesh either 

 equally thin, or when thick, becoming abruptly thin towards 

 the margin (not equally attenuated), splitting. Stem either 

 annulate or peronately squamulose below from the universal 

 veil, apex rather cortinate above, hence with a double veil. 



VI. HYGROCYBE. Fries, Monogr., ii. p. 93. 



Pileus glabrous or covered with superficial white fibrils, 

 moist "when growing but not viscid, becoming pale in colour 

 when dry ; flesh very thin, or scissile, disc rarely more com- 

 pact. Stem rather rigid, not peronate ; veil thin, fibrillose, 

 rarely collapsing and forming an irregular zone round the 

 stem. 



Subgen. HYGEOCYBE. 

 ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



I. FlRMIORES. 



Pileus rather fleshy, convex or campanulato-convex then 

 expanded, obtuse or at length gibbous, margin at first 

 incurved. . Stem (in most cases) attenuated upwards. 



* Stem and veil white. 



** Stem and gills usually violet. 



(In certain species of the previous section the stem shows* 

 an evanescent tinge of violet at the apex.) 



-*** 



Stem and imperfect veil yellow or rufous. 



**** Stem becoming dusky, veil pallid, dingy, or white 

 (not yellow) ; gills dark. 



