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s. 4 5 cm. cylindrical, bulb turbinate, marginate, whitish or tinged 

 yellow ; sp. 14 16 x 7, rough. 



corrosus, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. exp. umbil. glabrous, viscid, ferru- 

 ginous then pale tan, at length rivulose or subfloccose, opaque when 

 dry, flesh firm, white ; g. closely crowded, narrow ; s. 3 5 cm. white, 

 cortina fibrillose, apex naked, bulb depr. marginate ; sp. - - . 



fulgens, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. exp. silky-fibrillose, viscid, tawny 

 orange, flesh becoming spongy and tan; g. emarginate, tawny; s. 

 5 6 cm. colour of p. fibrillose and woolly, bulb large, depr. mar- 

 ginate ; sp. 9 x 5. 



Stem viscid when young in damp weather. 



[sulfurmus, Q. P. convex, sulphur yellow, edge white, disc 

 with saffron points ; g. sulphur then tawny ; s. silky, yellowish white. 



fulmineus, Fr. P. 35 cm. exp. tawny, edge orange, with 

 adpressed tawny scales ; g. at first pure yellow ; s. 23 cm. yellow, 

 naked, apex with a white veil, bulb ample, rooting ; sp. 10 x 5 6. 



Stem slightly viscid at first. C. fulgens differs in tan-coloured 

 flesh. 



elegantior, Fr. P. exp. even, glabrous, edge at first incurved, 

 tawny, flesh yellowish ; g. egg-yellow then olive ; s. yellowish, mar- 

 ginate ly bulbous. 



orichalceus, Fr. P. 5 9 cm. exp. with a viscid pellicle, disc 

 reddish tawny cracked into patches, edge livid ; g. sulphur then 

 greenish ; s. 4 7 cm. fibrillose, yellowish, marginately bulbous ; 

 sp. - - . 



testaceus, Cke. P. 6 9 cm. exp. obtusely umb. or depr. brick- 

 red then paler ; g. adnate ; s. 6 9 cm. whitish above, tinged rufous 

 below, bulb submarginate, flesh tinged reddish ; sp. 16x8, rough. 



}{ "f -J* Gills olivaceous. 



[rufoolivaceus, Pers. P. exp. rufous then paler; g. crowded, 

 olive ; s. green then yellowish, bulb submarginate. 



prasinus, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. exp. dingy bluish-green, spotted as 

 if scaly, edge incurved ; g. rather distant, olive-yellow ; s. 4 5 cm. 

 marginately bulbous, pale olive-green; sp. 10x5. 



atrovirens, Kalchbr. P. 6 9 cm. convex, dusky-green or dusky- 

 olive, flesh yellowish green; g. yellow-green then tan; s. 6 7 cm. 

 bulb marginate, subturbinate, flesh tinged greenish ; sp. 10 x 6. 



scaur us, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. equal, exp. smoky- tawny then pale, 

 spotted, edge thin becoming striate ; g. crowded, purplish-olive; 

 s. 6 7 cm. greenish or bluish, never yellow, narrowed upwards from 

 marginate bulb ; sp. 10 x 5. 



herpeticus, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. exp. olive then dingy tan, flesh 

 violet then whitish ; g. violet-umber then sooty-olive ; s. 5 7 cm. 

 fibrillose, pallid, bulb napiform, marginate; sp. 10x6. 



