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Vaillantii, Fr. P. 1 -52-5 cm. depr. plicately rugose, whitish ; 

 g. broad, subdecurrent ; s. 2 2'5 cm. glabrous, bay, apex paler and 

 thickened ; sp. 10 x 6. 



M. impudicus differs in purplish stem with white down when 

 dry. M. foetidus differs in strong smell. 



angulatus, Fr. P. 1 1'5 cm. soon exp. at length folded and 

 angular, whitish or tinge of tawny ; g. distant ; s. 2 3 cm. greyish 

 rufescent, thickened at both ends ; sp. 7x4. 



Closely resembling M. Curreyi and M. graminum ; differs from 

 former in ventricose gills not attached to a collar ; from the latter in 

 the gills not being attached to a collar. M. calopus differs in the 

 shining, bay stem. 



[Kirchneri, Thurn. P. often umb. pallid whitish brown ; g. sub- 

 decur. distant, whitish fuscous ; s. filiform, glabrous, brown. 



languidus, Fr. P. 1'5 2 cm. umbil. flocculose, rugosely sulcate, 

 whitish tinged yellow or flesh colour ; g. narrow ; s. 2 3 cm. 

 thickened upwards, pale, naked, base tawny ; sp. 6 7 x 4. 



rubricatus, Mass. P. up to 1 cm. soon plane, whitish tinged 

 red ; g. adnexed, white then brownish ; s. 1 2 cm. slender, incurved, 

 hollow ; sp. 6 x 3. 



* * Stem velvety pruinose, base subtuberculose. 



foetidus, Fr. Foetid. P. 2 3 cm. exp. and umbil. or wavy, 

 striato- plicate, tawny bay or rufous, pruinose when dry ; g. rufescent 

 with a yellow tinge ; s. 2 3 cm. hollow, bay, minutely velvety ; 

 sp. 7x4. 



inodorus, Pat. P. thin, exp. reddish brown with adpr. silky 

 down; g. adnate, crowded, whitish; s. blackish red, apex pale, 

 entirely covered with white bloom. 



Differs from M. foetidus in absence of smell. 



[xerotoides, Tr. P. umbilicate, umber, striate; g. broadly ad- 

 nate, becoming greyish ; s. velvety, base thickened, strigose. 



[lagopinus, Fr. P. convex, even, glabrous, pallid ; g. aduate, 

 pallid ; s. pallid, white floccose half way up, apex naked. 



amadelphus, Fr. P. 3 4 mm. soon plane, disc slightly pruinose, 

 margin at length striate, pale reddish-yellow ; g. broadly adnate, 

 broad ; s. pallid, bay below, slightly pruinose 1 1'5 cm.; sp. 4 x 25. 



var. insignis. G. very distant, pale umber. 



ramealis, Fr. P. 2 4 mm. opaque, rugulose, not striate, white, 

 disc often tinged rufescent ; g. rather distant, narrow, white, adnate; 

 s. 1 cm. white, mealy, base darker ; sp. 4 x 2. 



candidus, Bolt. Entirely white. P. up to 0'5 cm. pellucid, 

 wrinkled, naked ; g. aduexed ; s. 1 2 cm. whitish, slightly pruinose, 

 base tinged brownish ; sp. 4 x 2. 



