42 AGARICINI. 



Teiamonia. In mixed woods. Glamis, 1875. Sept. 



N&meplumiger, feather-bearing. From the scales. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 

 76. Hym. Eur. p. 377. B. & Br. n. 1550. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 486. QueL 

 Grev. t. 112. f. 2. 



85. 0. scutulatus Fr. Pileus comparatively small, at first 

 Purple -umber or brick- fuliginous, very hygrophanous, brick- 

 colour when dry, somewhat fleshy, at first ovato-globose, then 

 campanulato-hemispherical, obtuse, at first white-silky round the 

 margin, then naked, but rivulose in the form of innate sqtiamules, 

 varying lacunose-wrinkled ; flesh thin, violaceous. Stem some- 

 times 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, some- 

 times 12.5-15 cent. (5-6 in.) long, 12 mm. (% in.) thick, solid and 

 rigid, cylindrical or bulbous at the very base, externally and 

 internally intensely violaceous, at length becoming fuscous, white- 

 villous at the base, somewhat rooted, occasionally ascending, 

 sheathed and somewhat ringed with the white veil. Gills adnate, 

 rarely emarginate, more or less distant, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, 

 violaceous then purple, white-serrated at the edge when young, 

 at length cinnamon. 



Odour strong of radish. Assuming various forms. Veil "white ; when in 

 fullest vigour there is not only a superior ring, but there are also many zones 

 from the floccose scales being arranged concentrically as in C. triumphans ; 

 commonly with a simple ring above and clothed with sparse fibrils, occa- 

 sionally quite denuded. There are, moreover, variations with the stem hol- 

 low at the apex and the pileus umbilicate with the pileus umbonate, more 

 even, &c. 



In moist woods. Foxley, Cabalva. Sept.-Oct. 



Name scutula, diamond, lozenge-shaped. From the markings on the 

 pileus. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 76. Hym. Eur. p. 377. Icon. 1. 158. f. 2. Grev- 

 illea, vol. xii. p. 77. 



86. C. evernius Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, purple- 

 bay-brown, brick-colour when dry and becoming isabelline-hoary 

 when old, very hygrophanous, thin, almost fleshy -membranaceous, 

 conico-campanulate then flattened, obsoletely umbonate, when 

 young here and there adpressedly silky with the fibrillose white 

 veil, but commonly smooth, at length rimosely incised and torn 

 into fibrils, very fragile; flesh very thin, of the same colour. 

 Stem 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) long, 12 mm. (Y 2 in.) and more thick, 

 stuffed, soft, equal or attenuated downwards, slightly striate, 'viola- 

 ceous, becoming pale, squamulose and obsoletely zoned with the 

 adpressed veil. Grills adnate, ventricose, very broad (1-2.5 cent., 

 Yz-\ in.), distant, violaceous-purple^ becoming pale, at length 

 cinnamon. 



Odour not remarkable. Changing colour -very much. It is analogous with 



