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then piano-depressed, even, smooth, covered with a viscous easily Flammuia. 

 separable pellicle ; flesh soft, white. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 

 12 mm. (X in.) thick, curt, firm, thickened sometimes upwards 

 sometimes downwards, whitish at the apex, otherwise ferruginous 

 with dense adpressed fibrils, internally stuffed or hollow and be- 

 coming ferruginous. Gills adnato-decurrent, moderately crowded, 

 broad, clay-colour. 



Pileus comparatively very much dilated. Easily recognised by its -very strong 

 and very bitter odour. There are two forms : A. described above. B. 

 milder, pileus tawny, stem and gills light yellowish. 



In pastures. Glamis, 1874. Aug. 



Name lupus, a wolf. From the colour of the fibrils. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 



352. Hym. Eur. p. 246. B. &> Br. n. 1528. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 318. 



596. A. mixtus Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - O" 2 in -) broad, dingy 

 tan, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, unequal at the disc which is 

 somewhat compact like a smooth sugared cake and under a lens 

 slightly wrinkled with gluten, paler towards the sloping margin, 

 wholly smooth and even. Stem 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) long, 6-8 

 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, tough, hollow, equal ; sometimes shorter, 

 ascending, curved ; sometimes elongated, ftexuous, fuscous-fart7- 

 lose (fibrils lax) ; whitish, clothed below with reflexed rufous-fus- 

 cous scales and somewhat thickened at the base. Cortina mani- 

 fest, fibrillose. Gills somewhat decurrent, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) 

 broad, somewhat crowded, white then clay-colour, unequal at the 

 edge. 



Inodorous. Somewhat caespitose. The slightly firm flesh watery. The 

 external appearance and colours are those of A. (Hebeloma) punctatus, &c., but 

 in its whole nature it is nearest to A. lentus, lubricus, and lupinus. 



In pine and mixed woods. Rare. Aug.-Nov. 



Name mixtus, mixed. One among a number of allies. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 



353. Hym. Eur. p. 246. B. & Br. n. 1239, bis. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 319. C. 

 Illnst. PI. 474. Bull. t. 562.7. P.O. resembles it sufficiently well. 



597. A. juncinus Smith. Pileus 4 cent. (\y 2 in.) broad, sul- 

 phury yellow, disc rich brown, fleshy, hemispherical. Stem elon- 

 gated, 10 cent. (4 in.) long, thin, attenuated downwards, clothed 

 with a few fibres. Gills broad, very thin, red-brown. 



Veil none. Taste nauseous and disagreeable, somewhat bitter. Allied to 

 A. mixtus. 



On dead bulrushes in an old clay-pit. N. Wooton. Nov. 



Name juncus, a rush. Found on rushes. Worth. Smith in Journ. Bot. 

 l8 73- P- 336. C. Illust. PI. 475. 



