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velutinum, Pers. P. 59 cm. campan. then exp. at length ob- 

 tusely umb. hygr. at first tomentose with adpr. fibrils then glabrous, 

 livid then paler, flesh very thin ; g. seceding, brownish-bay, spotted 

 black ; s. hollow, silky, pallid ; sp. 10 12 x 5 6. 



var. leiocephalum, B. and Br. Smaller; disc rugged, smooth 

 except margin. 



Quelet considers this species to represent the true Ag. lachry- 

 mabundus of Bulliard, tab. 194. 



[melantinum, Fr. P. campan. then exp. umber then pale, 

 variegated with black innate pilose squamules ; g. adnexed, ventricose, 

 pale umber ; s. fistulose, pallid, fibrillosely hispid ; sp. 6 7 x 3 4. 



[lepidotum, Bres. P. convex, exp. subgibbous, chestnut, centre 

 fuscous, with black fibrils which are here and there compacted into 

 squamules, densely striate; g. crowded, almost free, purple-brown, 

 edge fimbriate, white ; s. white, apex white-scurfy, veil evanescent ; 

 sp. 78 x 45. 



* * * * FLOCCULOSI. Pileus with superficial, floccose 

 scales which fall away. 



cascum, Fr. P. 2 5 cm. oval then exp. rugulose, becoming 

 glabrous, greyish ochre then pale ; g. ventricose, dry, very broad, 

 grey then blackish brown; s. 5 9 cm. hollow, fibrillose, white; 

 sp. - . 



[sylvestre, Gill. P. conical then exp. obtuse, white at first, soon 

 covered with large, ad pressed brown or blackish, fibrillose scales, 

 margin appendiculate at first ; g. crowded ; s. cylindrical, wavy, 

 white. 



punctulatum, Kalchbr. Caespitose. P. 2 3 cm. convex, edge 

 incurved, pallid, minutely squanmlose ; g. sinuato-adnate ; s. 2 5 cm. 

 squamuloso-fibrillose up to ring ; sp. - . 



[coriarium, Vitt. P. convex then depr. discoid, floccosely scaly 

 then almost glabrous, clay-colour, disc darker ; g. pinkish then ochre ; 

 s. hollow, clavate, apex dilated. 



[intonsum, Pass. P. flocculosely tomentose, veil membranaceous, 

 appendiculate spreading ; g. adnate, rosy then bay, edge white crenu- 

 late ; s. hollow, white, striate, apex flocculose. 



[artemisiae, Passer. P. thin. exp. flocculose, edge incurved, 

 white veil evident ; g. adnate, crowded, white then fuscescent, edge 

 white, entire ; s. thick, white, apex narrowed and striate, base 

 floccose. 



***** APPENDICULATI. Pileus glabrous, hygrophanous. 



lanaripes, Cke. P. 3 5 cm. exp. edge upturned, centre conical, 

 pallid, squamose, veil attached to margin ; g. adnexed ; s. 4 7 cm. 

 fibrillose, white ; sp. - . 



[coronatum, Fr. P. exp. obtuse, glabrous, subisabelline centre 



