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[intentus, Pr. P. exp. soft, ochre or tawny ; g. adnate, closely 

 crowded, bright saffron ; s. hollow, rigid, fragile, yellowish. 



[compar, Fr. P. exp. even, yellowish, edge thin; g. adnate, 

 rusty-cinnamon ; s. fibrillose, apex lilac. 



[subsimilis, Fr. P. exp. sooty brown, flesh white ; g. adnate, 

 smoky then tan ; s. solid, equal, fibrillose, tawny. 



tttt Gills olive or smoky. 



[olivascens, Fr. P. exp. olive then sooty at length pale ; g. tan 

 tinged olive ; s. silvery-pallid. Taste very acrid. 



II. MYXACIUM. 



Universal veil glutinous, hence pileus and scarcely bulbous 

 stem viscid. Pileus rather thin. Gills adnate or 

 decurrent. 



* COLLINITI. Stem fioccosely peronate, flocci at first 

 covered with gluten. 



[alutipes, Lasch. P. exp. obtuse, even, yellow-brown or bay; 

 g. adnate, rather distant, tawny cinnamon ; s. solid, stout, peronato- 

 annulate, glutinous. 



arvinaceus, Fr. P. 6 9 cm. exp. edge patent, golden-tawny or 

 reddish-tan ; g. adnato-decur. straw-colour then ochre ; s. 10 17 cm. 

 cylindric, yellowish-white, silky-viscid ; sp. - - . 



collinitus, Fr. P. 7 11 cm. fleshy, convex and incurved then 

 exp. even, shining, tawny-orange ; g. adnate, greyish tan then cinna- 

 mon ; s. 7 12 cm. cylindric, floccosely glutinous broken up into 

 transverse squamules ; sp. 12x6. 



var. mucosus, Fr. Firmer. S. even, silky ; g. whitish then 

 rusty. 



falpinus, Boud. P. convex camp, firm, viscid, tawny yellow ; 

 s. white, apex sulcate, ring and below glutinous ; g. adnate, broad, 

 cinnamon, edge paler. Flesh pale ochraceous. 



Differs from C. collinitus and C. livido-ochraceus in very convex 

 p. and permanently white s. grooved at apex. 



mucifluus, Fr. P. 37 cm. campan.-exp. smeared with hyaline 

 gluten that disappears, edge striate livid-tan or yellowish ; g. adnate, 

 tan ; s. 5 7 cm. narrowed downwards, viscid and floccosely squamu- 

 lose, white or tinged violet ; sp. 12x7. 



elatior, Fr. P. 79 cm. cylindrical then exp. thin except disc, 

 plicato-rugose, livid yellow then dingy ochre ; g. adnate, very broad, 

 connected by veins ; s. 10 16 cm. narrowed to both ends, whitish 

 or tinged lilac; sp. 12x6. 



grallipes, Fr. P. 4 7 cm. thin, campan. then exp. umb. even, 



