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[paradoxa, P. Henn. P. campan. papillately umb. viscid, centre 

 brown, edge broadly revolute, even, glabrous ; g. adnato-decur. wavy, 

 veined, dusky brown ; s. wavy, striate, fibrous, yellow, base white- 

 downy, ring black, floccose, deciduous ; sp. 14 17 x 7 10. 



B. SPINTRIGERI. Pileus without a pellicle, but 

 innately fibrous, not viscid. 



[calceata, Schaeff. P. exp. adpressedly fibrillose, moist, stoutly 

 umb. even, dingy yellow then pale ; g. nearly free ; s. solid, glabrous, 

 white, base marginately bulbous, limb free like a volva. 



[ocreata, Holmsk. P. globoso-campan.-exp. obtuse, granulose 

 then imbricately scaly, red then gilvous ; g. nearly free ; s. peronate 

 up to imperfect ring. 



[medusa, Brig. P. globose then convex, even, subrimosely 

 squamulose when dry, yellowish white, edge lobed ; g. nearly free, 

 sooty, edge crenulate; s. solid, subtuberous, fibrillose, white, ring 

 fugacious. 



caput-medusae, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. ovate, exp. lacunose, squamulose, 

 discoid, umber-brown, edge ochre ; g. adfixed ; s. 5 9 cm. peronate 

 with squarrose scales up to superior ring, scales at length falling 

 away; sp. 10x4. (16 18x5 Sacc.) 



scobinacea, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. exp. gibbous, somewhat sulcate, at 

 first covered with crowded, blackish adpressed squamules ; g. adnate, 

 crenulate, purplish ; s. 6 9 cm. hollow, fibrillose, white, apex mealy,, 

 ring superior, fugacious ; sp. - - . 



[sulcata, Gill. P. conico-campan. umb. covered except at summit 

 with branched ridges, reddish ; g. distant ; s. white, striate below 

 and mealy above the ring. 



[sulcatula, Gill. P. convex, rugosely ridged, when young with 

 reddish superficial scales, then naked and whitish or tinged red at 

 disc ; sooty-brown, edge whitish, denticulate ; s. elongated, squamu- 

 lose up to ring, striate above, white, base rooting very cottony. 



[cotonea, Q. At first entirely white. P. 5 7 cm. spherical then 

 convex, snow-white, covered with floccose squamules ; g. sinuate, 

 white, then purple, at length brownish-purple, edge white ; s. 

 3 6 cm. fistulose, curved, floccosely scaly, apex glabrous, ring 

 floccose ; sp. 10 long. 



Quelet considers this species to be identical with Hyph. lacry- 

 mcbundum, Fries. 



Battarrae, Fr. P. hemispher. then exp., more or less olive, 

 covered with adpressed squamules most crowded at the disc ; g. 

 sinuate, white then rosy, finally purple-brown, edge white; s. fistu- 

 lose, whitish, with brownish or olive squamules up to ring, apex 

 pruinose, ring thin, white, partly appendiculate ; sp. 10 long. 



[punctulata, Kalchbr. P. thin, convex, dry, pallid, squamulosely 

 punctate from the veil, then naked ; g. sinuato-adnate with a decur. 

 tooth, pale umber ; s. stuffed, pallid, squamulose from the veil above. 



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