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viscid, dingy yellow, disc darker ; g. adnexed, crowded, whitish then 

 rusty ; s. equal, rigid, subsquamulose, whitish, ring persistent apical, 

 white ; sp. 8 x 5. 



aegerita, Fr. P. 49 cm. exp. rivulose, rugulose, tawny, edge 

 pale; g. adnate, pallid then fuscous; s. 8 14 cm. equal, silky- white, 

 ring sup. tumid ; sp. 10x5. 



[Brigantii, Fr. P. convex, white, reticulately sulcate then 

 cracked into wart-like areolae, polygonal, apex truncate and fuscous ; 

 g. with decur. tooth ; s. solid, equal, white with bay scales, ring 

 apical subobsolete. 



luxurians, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. convex-gibbous then exp. unequal, 

 silky then squamulose, pale then rufo-fuscous ; g. decur. greyish 

 flesh-colour then fuscous ; s. 3 5 cm. white then tawny, solid, rigid, 

 floccose, ring apical, imperfect ; sp. 10x4. 



* * Pileus scaly, not hygr., gills becoming discoloured. 



f Gills pallid then fuscous, olive, clay-coloured, 

 not pure rusty. 



destruens, Brig. P. unequal, yellowish white, with paler large 

 woolly floccose scales when dry; g. striato-decur. crenulate, broad, 

 umber at last ; s. solid, narrowed upwards, white-scaly, base swollen 

 and rooting, ring fugacious ; sp. 8 9 x 5 6. 



Parasitic on living trees. 



comosa, Fr. P. 7 14 cm. convex, viscid, tawny with whitish 

 deciduous scales ; g. subdecur. white then brownish tan ; s. 7 9 cm. 

 solid, rather bulbous, white, ring floccose, soon disappearing; sp. 

 12 x 6. (7-58-5 x 56 Sacc.) 



[magna, Schulz. P. convex-umb. wood-yellow, with broad scat- 

 tered adpressed scales ; g. sinuate, yellow then umber ; s. cylindrical, 

 thick, squarrosely scaly, yellowish ; sp. 8 1 1 x 4 6. 



heteroclita, Fr. P. 6 14 cm. exp. very obtuse, subexcentric, 

 whitish or yellowish, with scattered scales ; g. very broad ; s. 6 9 cm. 

 solid, hard, bulbous, rooting, whitish, fibrillose, veil apical ; sp. 8 10 

 xo 6. 



[cerifera, Karst. P. convex, even, upper stratum thick, waxy- 

 gelatinous, glabrous, yellow, edge white-squamulose at first ; g. 

 crowded, broad, pallid ; s. central, solid, equal, curved, rooting, hard, 

 white-squamulose, whitish ; sp. 8 10 x 6 7. 



aurivella, Batsch. P. 7 14 cm. campan. convex, gibbous, tawny 

 yellow, with darker scales, rather viscid ; g. sinuato-adfixed ; s. 

 8 14 cm. curved, with rusty adpressed squamules, ring rather 

 distant ; sp. 5 x 2'5. (89 x 45 Sacc.) 



var. filamentosa, SchaefF. P. thinner, scales adnate, concentric, 

 ring floccoso-radiate. 



squarrosa, Mull. Smell strong. P. 5 9 cm. campan. convex, 



