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[nigropunctata, Seer. P. exp. umb. whitish, mealy, disc dotted 

 with black; g. crowded, pallid then yellowish; s. hollow, striate with 

 black. 



[pachyphylla, Fr. P. convexo-plane, dingy yellow or rufescent, 

 floccosely squamulose; g. thick, distant, yellow; s. tough, yellow. 



var. absinthiata. P. scurfy-squamulose, brown-ochre ; g. very 

 broad, grey then pallid. 



bella, Pers. P. 2 3 cm. exp. depr. or umbil. orange yellow with 

 darker squarnules ; g. yellow, connected by veins, mealy ; s. 4 5 cm. 

 yellowish ; sp. 6 7, subgl. warted. 



laccata, Scop. (= Laccaria, B. and Br.). P. exp. subumbil. irreg. 

 mealy subsquamulose, violet or brown, whitish when dry, 2 4 cm. ; 

 g. thick, distant, coloured like p., mealy; s. 47 cm. fibrous, colour 

 of p. ; sp. globose, warted, 8 9. 



proxima, Boud. P. 2 3 cm. convex then plane, glabrous, 

 yellowish-brown ; g. adnato-decurrent, pinkish ; s. 6 7 cm. even, 

 smooth, paler than pileus; sp. 7 x 3'5. 



Resembling the brown form of C. laccata, differing in the ellipti- 

 cal, warted spores and glabrous pileus. 



[sandicina, Fr. P. convexo-plane, umbil. deformed, even, hygr. 

 at length greyish-mealy; g. adnate, crowded, purplish, almost naked; 

 s. hollow, unequal, glabrous, purplish. 



[gruinata, Scop. P. campan. -convex, glabrous, cracked into 

 squamules, disc depr. yellow ; g. broadly adnate, distant, white ; 

 s. equal, pallid. 



sadleri, Berk. This is only an abnormal condition of Hypholoma 

 fasciculare. 



OMPHALIA, Fr. 



I. COLLYBIARII. Pileus expanded from the first, 

 edge incurved. 



* Usually large, gills narrow, closely crowded. 



hydrogramma, Fr. Livid white, white when dry. P. 47 cm. 

 flaccid, thin, umbil. hygr. edge spreading, striate; g. closely crowded; 

 s. 6 8 cm. base rooting; sp. - . 



Differs from Clito. phyllophila in polished stem. 



[chrysoleuca, Fr. P. very thin, umbil. shining, white, edge 

 reflexed, substriate; g. yellowish ; s. smooth, base thickened; sp. 

 810x4. 



[ventosa, Fr. P. infundib. glabrous, flaccid, flesh-colour, hygr.; 

 g. white then flesh-colour; s. colour of p. 



[dumosa, Fr. P. very thin, plane, subumbiL rigid, deep brick- 

 red; g. pallid; s. glabrous, colour of p. 



