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5 9 cm. solid, whitish with black fibrils ; sp. 7 8 x 5 6 ; cystidia 

 ventricose. 



var. rigens, Pers. P. grey, blackish, virgate or squaraulose; s. 

 glabrous, somewhat shining. 



var. patricius, Schulz. P. whitish then grey with umber or tan 

 scales, then almost glabrous, silky shining, and radiately cracked ; s. 

 even, white. 



var. eximius, Saund. and Sm. Large and showy. P. even, with 

 a separable viscid pellicle, reddish-umber, vermilion near edge when 

 young ; s. fibrillose, at length blackish. 



var. petasatus, Fr. P. umb. glabrous, greyish white, with a 

 separable pellicle, at length striate to middle; s. fibrillosely striate, at 

 length tawny. 



var. Bullii, Berk. P. convex, smooth, even, pallid, disc darker ; 

 s. pale brown. 



[sororiata, Karst. P. campan. exp. floccosely scaly, yellow; g. 

 flesh-colour ; s. pallid then yellowish ; sp. 7 8 x 6. 



[montellicus, Sacc. P. flesh spongy, dry, exp. yellowish, almost 

 glabrous; g. olive-grey; s. fibrous, rufescent, incurved; sp. 10x8. 



umbrosus, Pers. P. 3 5 cm. campan. then exp. lacunose-rugose, 

 at first downy, umber, edge ciliato-fimbriate ; g. edge smoky-fimbriate; 

 s. 4 7 cm. solid, squamulosely downy, pale ; sp. 6 7 x5 ; cystidia 

 ventricose. 



Differs from P. cervinus in downy p. and dark-edged gills. 



ephebius, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. exp. obtuse, covered with bluish 

 down, edge naked; g. yellowish flesh-colour; s. 4 7 cm. stuffed, 

 glabrous, slightly striate, whitish or tinged grey ; sp. 7 x 4. 



Differs from P. cervinus in minutely downy p. which is sometimes 

 brownish-violet. 



var. drepanophyllus, Schulz. P. umber ; s. at length hollow. 



[granulatus, Bres. ( =plautus, Q., not of Fr.) P. campan. then 

 exp. hygr. edge striate, rufescent, densely covered with minute 

 granules of same colour ; g. free, edge fimbriate ; s. hyaline-white, 

 often compressed, grooved, rather scurfy, somewhat rooting ; sp. 

 68. 



violarius, Mass. P. 1'5 2 '5 cm. hemisph. then nearly plane, 

 minutely velvety, watery, dark purple, flesh grey ; g. flesh-colour, 

 edge serrulate ; s. 2 3 cm. hollow, whitish upwards, base pale brown 

 with black fibrils ; sp. subgl. 5 6. 



salicinus. Pers. P. 2 3 cm. exp. subumb. bluish-grey, disc 

 darker and floccosely rugose ; g. rosy ; s. 2 3 cm. stuffed, fibrillose, 

 bluish- white ; sp. . 



var. beryllus, Pers. P. greenish. 



var. jftoccosus, Karst. P. floccosely scaly. 



hispidulus, Fr. P. 1 1*5 cm. convexo-plane, pilose or silky, 

 grey, edge at length slightly striate ; g. flesh-colour ; s. 3 4 cm. 

 fistulose, even, glabrous, silvery-white ; sp. . 



[curtus, Karst. P. convexo-exp. obtuse, longitudinally fibrillose 



