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Name tesqua, waste places. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 290. Icon. t. 70. /. 3. Collybia. 

 B. & Br. n. 1745. C. Illust. PL 270. 



246. A. clusilis Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent. (%-i in.) broad, livid 

 when moist, becoming pale, grey-clay-colour when dry, somewhat 

 mcmbranaceous, rather plane, broadly depressed in the centre, very 

 much sloped downwards towards the margin, which is at first 

 incurved, even, smooth, soft-fragile, slightly striate at the margin 

 when moist, even throughout when dry. Stem 4 cent. (i> i n -) 

 long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, wholly cartilaginous, soft, how- 

 ever, and flexile, stuffed with a white floccose pith, equal, even, 

 smooth, polished, livid. Gills adnate, plane, with a decurrent 

 tooth, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, not ventricose, but in the form 

 of a segment, on account of their breadth appearing somewhat 

 crowded, white, becoming pale. 



B. Pileus 12 mm. (K in.) broad, livid when moist, becoming pale when 

 dry, somewhat membranaceous, at first lens-shaped-globose, then hemispherical, 

 umbilicate, striate when moist, even when dry. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 2 

 mm. (i lin.) thick, flocculoso-stuffed, then hollow, white villous at the base. 

 Gills very broad, semicircular, plane with a straight edge, crowded, thin, 

 white. It is scarcely possible to separate the two forms. Approaching 

 OmphalicB. 



Among moss. Coed Coch, 1869, &c. Autumn. 



Name clusilis, easily closing. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 174. Hym. Eur. p. 129. 

 B. & Br. n. 1211. b. minor. C. Illust. PL 247. A. umbilicatus Bull. t. 411. 



/. 2. 



247. A. tylicolor Fr. Pileus only 12 mm. (% in.) broad, grey- 

 cinereous, slightly fleshy, convex then flattened, somewhat umbon- 

 ate, even, unpolished and opaque. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 2 

 mm. (i lin.) thick, flstulose, somewhat fragile, not rooted, equal, 

 even, grey, everywhere whitish-pulverulent. Gills free, distant, 

 broad, plane, rather thick, bi-quaternate, paler than the pileus, 

 grey. 



Inodorous, very undiotinguished in its habit, but its affinity is not apparent. 

 In shady woods among grass. Coed Coch. Autumn. 



Name of the colour of tylos, a small worm, Vermis multipes. The name is 

 used by Pliny, and has been identified by some with oniscus, the wood-louse. 

 From the cinereous colour. The synonym of Persoon, spodochrous (cnroSos, 

 ashes ; xp^s, colour) signifies ash-coloured. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 176. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 129. B. &> Br. n. 1341. C. Illust. PL 247. 



