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* * LEPTOPHYLLI. Gills narrow, thin, more or less 

 crowded. Pileus thin. Stem somewhat cartilaginous 

 and rigid outside, stuffed or hollow, often narrowed 

 below. 



f 1 Stem whitish or pallid, floccosely scaly. 



triformis, Fr. P. 4 9 cm. convexo-plane, subumb. hygr. opaque, 

 almost glabrous, yellow-brown ; g. subadnate ; s. 6 7 cm. clavate, 

 almost glabrous, pallid, ring white ; sp. 10x6. 



var. melleopallens, Fr. P. dingy honey-colour ; s. yellowish then 

 pallid, becoming hollow, ring interwoven. 



v&r.fuscopallens, Fr. P. umb. fuscescent then pallid ; g. narrow, 

 watery white. 



biformis, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. conico-campan. exp. glabrous, shining, 

 rusty bay, umbo fleshy, prominent ; g. adnate, crenulate ; s. 5 9 cm. 

 base narrowed, fibrillosely striate, pale, ring oblique, white ; 

 sp. - . 



[fallax, Q. P. thin, becoming pallid; g. pallid then ochre; s. 

 wavy, slender, pallid, apex blue, ring white, fugacious. 



[Lindgrenii, Fr. P. exp. obtuse, glabrous, rusty (ochre-tan), 

 then wavy ; g. crowded, watery cinnamon ; s. short, adpressedly 

 silky, whitish, ring subapical, reflexed. 



f f Stem violet. 



periscelis, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. campan. then convex, lilac, white- 

 silky, umbo fleshy, rest very thin ; g. adnate, crowded, narrow ; s, 

 7 9 cm. fibrillose, colour of p. interwoven brownish veil subannu- 

 late ; sp. 7 8 X 4 5. 



Usually several imperfect brownish rings on s. 



[bibulus, Q. Greyish-lilac ; p. ellipsoid, moist, fibrillosely silky ; 

 g. dusky violet ; s. slender, covered with curled white flecks. 



flexipes, Fr. P. 1'5 2'5 cm. conical then exp. acutely umb. 

 violet then brownish cinnamon (reddish tan) fibrillosely hoary ; g. 

 adnate, broad, umber-violet then tan ; s. 7 9 cm. wavy, subundu- 

 late, fibrillosely scaly, apex violet, veil white, subannulate ; sp. . 



flabellus, Fr. Smell strong, like radishes. P. 2 3 cm. conical, 

 exp. obtusely umb. fuscous-olive (tan) hoary fibrillose ; g. adnate, 

 connected by veins, linear, olive then rusty; s. 6 9 cm. wavy, 

 floccosely scaly pallid, scales and ring white ; sp. . 



-f"ff Stem and pileus tawny or rusty. 



psammocephalus, Fr. Every part tawny cinnamon, inside also ; 

 p. 2 3 cm. convexo-exp. then umb. scurfily-scaly ; g. adnate, 

 arcuate, crowded; s. 3 4 cm. narrowed, squamulosely peronate 

 from the contiguous veil ; sp. 6 x 4. 



incisus, Fr. P. 1 2 cm. conico-convex, exp. umb. naked but 

 soon innately fibrillosely scaly, hygr. rusty (tawuy); g. adnate; s. 



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