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then pale yellow; gills adnexed, sinuate, with a slightly 

 decurrent tooth, crowded, yellowish, becoming cinnamon- 

 tan ; stem about 3 in. long, 4 lines thick, somewhat incras- 

 sated at the base, firm, with whitish squamules and fibrils, 

 apex with white meal, cortinate, stuffed, becoming brown 

 inside; partial veil evident; spores elliptical, 10-12 x 5 /*. 



Agaricus (Hebeloma) glutinosus, Lindgr., Bot. Not. 1845, 

 p. 199 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 161 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 430. 



Amongst dead leaves, twigs, &c. 



Smell peculiar, not unpleasant. Stem fleshy, stuffed, firm, 

 somewhat bulbous, 2-3 in. long, whitish, fibrillose, and 

 squamulose, base frequently strigose, at length tinged ferru- 

 ginous. Partial veil evident but fugacious. Pileus rather 

 fleshy, convex then plane, regular, obtuse, 2-3 in. across, 

 covered with tough, viscid gluten, and shiny when wet, 

 sprinkled with superficial seceding scales. Pileus variable 

 in colour, typically having the disc brick-red, the remainder 

 yellowish-white. Flesh whitish. Gills arcuately adnexed, 

 broad, crowded, pallid, then yellowish, at length tan-colour 

 and somewhat cinnamon. (Fries.) 



Hebeloma testaceum. Batsch. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, campanulate then convex, becoming 

 flattened, regular, obtuse, even, rather viscid, pale brick-red 

 or ochraceous-tan ; gills attenuated behind, almost free, 

 lanceolate, crowded, narrow, at first ascending, pale then 

 ferruginous ; stem about 3 in. long, 34 lines thick, hollow, 

 somewhat bulbous, pallid, floccosely -fibrillose, apex mealy ; 

 spores elliptical, 10 X 5-6 p.. 



Agaricus testaceus, Batsch, f. 198 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 162 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., 408. 



In woods. 



Odour of radishes. Distinguished amongst the viscid 

 .species by the almost free, closely crowded, very thin, 

 narrow gills. 



Hebeloma firmum. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, campanulate then expanded and 

 discoid, umbonate, even, smooth, viscid, brick-red, the broad 

 rimbo darker ; gills rounded behind, crowded, dry, 2-3 lines 

 broad, tan-colour then ferruginous, margin whitish, serrulate ; 





