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In meadows, damp places. Mossb urn ford, Jedburgh, &c. Dec. ciitocybe. 



Spores ovoid-pruniform, 9 mk. Q. Name e/cTuiros, worked in relief. Prob- 



ably from the appearance of the markings. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 140. Hym. 



Eur, p. 107. Icon. t. 59. /. i. Berk. Out. p. 112. C. Hbk. n. 106. Illust. 

 PI. 126. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 107. 



192. A. bellus Pers. Pileus about 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, dark 

 yellow, sometimes rufescent, sprinkled with darker squamules, at 

 length becoming pale, somewhat fleshy, pliant, convex then ex- 

 panded, depressed in the centre, at length undulato-repand at 

 the margin. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) 

 thick, stuffed tit length hollow, equal, tough, but fibrous, and exter- 

 nally rivulose with the fibrils, becoming yellow. Gills adnate, at 

 length decurrent with a tooth, very broad, distant, connected 

 by veins, sometimes branched, paler than the pileus, becoming 

 yellow, at length rufescent. 



Somewhat caespitose. Almost intermediate between A. ectypus and A. 

 laccatus ; odour when old almost that of the former, but otherwise nearer to 

 the latter, and almost equally various in stature. 



In fir plantations. Uncommon. Sept. 



Gills incarnato-ferruginous, so far differing from Fries. It is at once distin- 

 guished from A. laccatus by its foetid smell. M.J.B. Name bellus, of beauty. 

 Pretty. Pers. Syn. p. 452. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 140. Hym. Eur. p. 107. Berk. 

 Out. p. 113, not Gonn. & Rab. C. Hbk. n. 107. Illust. PL 183. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 108. 



** Pileus bright, &>c. 



193. A. laccatus 1 Scop. Pileus about 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 thin, almost membranaceous, convex, at length rather plane, more 

 or less umbilicato-depressed, dry, but remarkably hygrophanous, 

 becoming pale in drying, and the cuticle separating into mealy 

 squamules or somewhat silky, sometimes undulato- crisped and 

 variously irregularly shaped. Stem about 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, 4 

 mm. (2 lin.) and more thick, tough, wholly fibrous, stuffed, equal, 

 often flexuous, or twisted, fibrillose, of the same colour as the 

 pileus, white villous at the base. Gills adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, commonly distinct, very broad, distant, plane, flesh-colour 

 or violaceous, at length white-mealy. 



There are two primary types of colour : one rufous-flesh when moist, pileus 

 ochraceous when dry ; the other dark violaceous, pileus becoming hoary when 

 dry. Besides that the colours are both variable and changeable, its stature is 



1 The Rev. M. J. Berkeley proposes a new genus, Laccaria, of which this 

 species is the type. As there are other subgenera, e.g. , Jnocybe, which may 

 ultimately rank as genera, it is better perhaps in the meantime to retain A. 

 laccatus and its allies under Ciitocybe. 



