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the pileus ; date-brown, brick-colour, copper-brown. There is a variety (in Telamonia. 

 drier weather) with the gills rufescent-flesh-colour. Small forms changed in 

 colour occur. The pileus like that of C. scutulatus, elatior, &c. varies pitted- 

 wrinkled and ribbed from the centre. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Name torvus, savage. Growing in wild places. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 74. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 376. Icon. t. 157. f. i. B. & Br. n. 1353. C. Hbk. n. 524. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 485. Bull. t. 600. /. Q.R.S. Kalch. t. ai. /. i. 



83. C. impennis Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, at first 

 almost umber, then brick-colour, changing colour and dingy, 

 somewhat equal lyyfor^j/, very obtuse, convex, smooth, when young , 

 silky only round the margin, at length cracked ; flesh pallid. 

 Stem 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) long, 1-2.5 cent. ( l /z-\ in.) thick, solid, 

 cylindrical, scarcely bulbous, not clothed with scales, pale, becom- 

 ing violet at the apex and internally azure-blue, girt towards the 

 apex with a white zone formed of the veil, and furnished with a 

 cortina (of the same colour). Gills at first adnate, then emar- 

 ginate, distant, rather thick, at first intensely and brightly vio- 

 laceous and somewhat piirplish, but immediately changing colour 

 and becoming watery ferruginous. 



The pileus does not become hoary. Approaching C. torvus in colours, but 

 much inferior, certainly different in the stem not being sheathed with the veil, 

 in the pileus being smooth, &c. In a young state the colour is almost that of 

 Ag. butyraceus. 



Among dead leaves. Bomere. 



Name penna, a feather. Without feathers. Smooth, contrasted with 

 C. plumiger. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 75. Hym. Eur. p. 376. Icon. t. 157. f. 2. 

 B. & Br. n. 1880. 



84. C. plumiger Fr. Pileus fuscous, somewhat olivaceous 

 when moist, brick-tan when dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, 

 conical when young, then campanulate, with a broad obtuse very 

 prominent umbo, when more expanded as much as 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.), and often cracked, dry, clothed with dense white fioccoso- 

 plumose scales, which are sometimes erect and squarrose, some- 

 times (after showers) adpressed and silky. Stem 7.5-10 cent. 

 (3-4 in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick at the base, 10 mm. (5 lin.) 

 at the apex, solid, remarkably clavate, pale, internally watery 

 whitish. Veil fioccoso-scaly on the stem, somewhat in the form of 

 a ring at the apex, shining white. Gills adnate, scarcely crowded 

 broad, at first -violaceous, soon of a watery then of a pure cinna- 

 mon, edge quite entire, of the same colour or clay. 



Handsome. 



