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ELASTICI. Veil simple, thin, fugacious, median or 

 inferior. Stem never marginately bulbous or peronate, 

 but elastic, rigid, externally polished, shining, carti- 



t Gills white then tan or dingy cinnamon. 



cumatiHs, Fr. P. 7 9 cm. obtuse, with bluish-violet gluten, 

 disc brownish ; g. adnexed, serrate ; s. 6 7 cm. subbulbous, white, 

 veil forming a volva at base; sp. - - . 



serarius, Fr. P. 3 9 cm. gibbous, not polished, viscid, opaque, 

 reddish-tan ; g. arcuato-adfi xed ; s. 7 9 cm. fibrillose, shining, and 

 like the flesh white ; sp. - - . 



emollitus, Fr. P. 68 cm. exp. wavy, slightly fibrillose-virgate, 

 tawny then ochre and shining ; g. white then ochre ; s. 34 cm. 

 scarcely bulbous, fibrillose, white as is also the flesh ; sp. - - . 



cristallinus, Fr. P. 5 7 cm. exp. very glabrous, viscid, shining, 

 hygr. pallid, edge whitish ; g. crowded, tan ; s. 5 6 cm. hollow, 

 nearly equal, white ; sp. 8 x 4. 



decoloratus, Fr. P. 4 9 cm. exp. soon dry and flocculose, tan 

 then pale, often corrugated when old; g. greyish-tan; s. 6 7 cm. 

 base thickened, fibrillosely-striate, silvery ; sp. 7 x 4. 



f f Gills violet, purplish or flesh-colour. 



decolorans, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. exp. all one colour, yellow ; g. dry, 

 purplish then tan ; s. 5 8 cm. narrowed upwards, and like the flesh, 

 white; sp. 10x8. 



porphyropus, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. exp. thin, virgate, ochre, often 

 spotted ; g. rather crowded, thin ; s. 5 9 cm. somewhat attenuated, 

 lilac, purplish when bruised as is also the flesh; sp. 10 12 x 7. 



[rubropunctatus, Karst. P. thin, convexo-plane, even, glabrous, 

 glutinous, yellow ; g. adnexed, crowded, white then ochre ; s. wavy, 

 fibrillose, white, apex pruinose red-punctate ; sp. 8 10 x 4 5. 



croceocoeruleus, Fr. P. 23 cm. exp. lilac ; g. lilac then 

 orange-tan ; s. 4 5 cm. hollow, fragile, white ; sp. 8 x 5. 



[maculpsus, Fr. P. conico-convex then exp. and wavy, whitish 

 spotted with umber scales ; g. pinkish-white, grey then tan ; s. 

 squamosely fibrillose, white. 



ttt Gills pure ochre, tawny, or rusty. 



corruscans, Fr. P. 7 11 cm. plane, even, glabrous, yellowish 

 ochre often spotted ; g. plano-decur. closely crowded, ochre ; s. 

 7 12 cm. solid, elastic, white ; sp. - - . 



papulosus, Fr. P. 5 8 cm. discoid, soon rivulose, granulato- 

 punctate, honey-tan, disc darker; g. adnato-decur. ; s. 6 7 cm. 

 fibrillose, white ; sp. . 



