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greyish violet, easily separating; s. solid, fibrillosely striate, apex 

 subsquamulose, base bulbous, colour of p. ; sp. 6 x 3. 



nudum. Bull. Whole fungus violet at first. P. 5 8 cm. soon 

 exp. often wavy, flesh thin ; g. narrow, becoming rufescent ; s. 5 8 

 cm. equal, elastic, rather mealy ; sp. 7 x 3'5. 



Flesh of stem tinted violet. In T. personatum white. 



[violaceonitens, Bagl. P. convex, umb. dusky violet, shining, 

 edge wavy, rugulosely sulcate ; g. crowded, dingy white ; s. solid, 

 stout, base narrowed, colour of p. 



cinerascens, Bull. P. 5 8 cm. convex, even, glabrous, white 

 then greyish ; g. dingy, easily separating from flesh ; s. 4 6 cm. solid, 

 equal, glabrous ; sp. - . 



panaeolum. Fr. P. 6 8 cm. convex then almost plane, dusky 

 grey with a grey bloom, often spotted ; g. grey with rufous tinge ; 

 8. 3 5 cm. solid, fibrous-striate, greyish ; sp. subgl. 5 6. 



var. calceolum, Sterb. P. spongy, deformed, thin, soft, exp. edge 

 incurved, sooty-grey or reddish-grey ; g. smoky ; s. excentric, fusiform, 

 very short. 



cnista, Fr. P. 5 8 cm. exp. moist, glabrous, pale tan or whitish, 

 margin incurved, naked, even ; g. white, veined, reddish when bruised ; 

 s. 3 5 cm. solid, glabrous, white ; sp. 9 10 x 4. 



Differs from T. panaeolum in p. not becoming grey. 



fallax. Peck. P. 2 3 cm. soon plane, yellow, disc darker, even ; 

 g. becoming yellowish ; s. 25 cm. yellow, hollow ; sp. 4 5 x 3. 



VII. HYGROPHANA. Pileus thin, subumbonate, 

 hygrophanous. 



* Gills whitish, not spotted. 



melaleucum, Pers. P. 3 7 cm. convex then plane, umb. blackish 

 then paler, glabrous; g. emarginate aduexed, white; s. 5 8 cm. 

 equal, elastic, whitish with dark fibrils ; sp. 10 x 4 5. 



Coll. stridula much resembles this sp. but has a brownish stem. 

 T. arcuatum has flesh tinged brown. T. oreinum has apex of stem 

 squamulose. 



var. adstringens, Pers. P. exp. pitch black and rather shining 

 when dry ; g. tinged pink ; s. naked. 



var. polioleucum, Fr. P. obtusely umb. livid then grey ; s. apex 

 white-pruinose. 



var. porphyroleucum, Bull. P. fleshy, umbo disappearing, sooty or 

 fuscous-rufescent ; s. solid, subfibrillose ; g. white. 



[microcephalum, Karst. P. 2 3 cm. convexo-plane, livid-sooty 

 then pale ; g. much crowded, soft, white ; s. tall, 9 12 cm. splitting 

 easily into fibres, pallid, glabrous ; sp. subg. 5 6 x 5. 



[turritum, Fr. P. conico-exp. umb. moist, obscure purple, some- 

 what spotted ; g. soon free, white ; s. stuffed then hollow, white with 

 dusky fibrils. 



