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VI. Volva, ring, and veil absent ; flesh very thin, pileus 

 soon splitting along the lines of the gills, scurfy or 

 glabrous. 



* Pileus more or less scurfy. 



f Gills attached to stem. 



Pileus white. 



[conditus, Godey. P. globose then ovoid, striate, sometimes 

 tinged yellow; g. adnate; s. 20 25 mm. shining, scurfy; sp. . 



[stellaris, Q. P. ovoid then campan. 1 2 mm. striate, snow- 

 white then greyish, crowned with pellucid vesicles ; g. adnate ; s. 

 1 2 cm. long, filiform, hyaline, velvety ; sp. 8 long. 



Pileus coloured. 



[coopertus, Fr. P. conico-campan. 2'5 cm. striate, lurid, densely 

 micaceous, yellowish grey when dry; g. adnate, broad ; s. 3 5 cm. 

 pallid, apex with white flecks ; sp. 



[pseudo-plicatilis, Vogl. P. campan. umb. soon exp. and sulcate, 

 yellowish grey, umbo yellowish, scurfy ; g. adnate ; s. white, woolly, 

 thickened and floccose below ; sp. 6 8 x 3. 



velox, Godey. P. obovate, striate then grooved, scurfy between 

 the ribs, disc also greyish and scurfy, 3 4 mm. ; g. close to stem ; 

 s. 1'5 3 cm. with white floccose down ; sp. 



ephemeras, Fr. P. very delicate, ovate then campan. sulcate, 

 slightly scurfy, disc elevated, even, rufescent, 1 2 cm. ; g. slightly 

 adnexed; s. 3 6 cm. glabrous, whitish, pellucid ; sp. 16 17 x9 10. 



[mycenopsis, Karst. P. campan. then exp. sulcate, sooty-grey, 

 livid disc prominent, scurfy, soon naked ; g. aduate ; s. tall, glabrous, 

 white, striate upwards ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



ff Gills free. 

 Stem fibrillose or downy. 



cothurnatus, Godey. P. conico-campan. then exp. and umb. 

 densely scurfy, whitish, yellowish or reddish, 2 3 cm. ; g. free ; s. 

 3 5 cm. white, squamulose below; sp. 



[evanidus, Godey. P. obovate then campan. striate, whitish, 

 rather scurfy, disc prominent, tinged brown ; 3 4 mm. ; g. free, 

 distant; s. 1 '52-5, pellucid, white, downy; sp. 



Stem glabrous. 



sociatus, Fr. P. ovate then campan. plicate, subsquamulose or 

 scurfy, disc umber and becoming depr. 2 cm. ; g. narrowed behind, 



