48 AGARICINI. 



Telamonia very dark date-brown-fuscous, also inclining to violaceous, but 

 becoming pale, very pale yellow in dry weather, tan when old, 

 slightly fleshy, at first conical and acute, then expanded and 

 acutely umbonate, at length depressed round the umbo, hoary- 

 fibrillose, at length denuded, torn when old ; flesh thin, of the 

 same colour as the pileus. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 4 mm. 

 (2 lin.) thick, stuffed, then pierced, equal, ftexuous.faccoso-scaty 

 below the woven sufficiently manifest white ring, pallid, viola- 

 ceous throughout or at least at the apex. Gills adnate, slightly 

 distant, broad, purple or umber-violaceous, then at length cinna- 

 mon, whitish at the edge. 



When old almost like C. evernius, with which it agrees in the variation of 

 colour. 



In woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Name -flexus, bent ; pes, a foot. From the flexuous stem. Fr. Monogr. 

 ii. p. 84. Hym. Eur. p. 384. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1881, p. 36. 

 Grevillea, t. 113. f. 3. 



99. C. flabellus Fr. Pileus 18 mm. (tf in.) broad, olivaceous- 

 fuscous, tan when dry, somewhat membranaceous, commonly 



acutely umbonate, at first conical, then flattened, at first covered 

 with white superficial separating scales, silky when dry, and at 

 length rimosely incised, torn into fibrils; flesh very thin, paler. 

 Stem 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, sometimes short, 5 cent. (2 in.) 

 long, in the typical form elongated (7.5-10 cent., 3-4 in.), stuffed 

 then hollow, equal, undulated and flexuous, floccoso-scaly, pallid, 

 becoming violet at the apex. Veil white, inferior, giving rise to 

 the scales on the stem, terminating in a ring, which is sometimes 

 perfect and entire, sometimes woven and oblique. Gills adnate, 

 crowded, linear, narrow, dark violaceous, then cinnamon, at length 

 ferruginous. 



Growing in troops. Odour strong, somewhat of radish. Ring often 

 awanting. 



In woods. Coed Coch. 



According to Fries's earlier description the umbo is commonly obtuse and 

 vanishing. Nameflabellus, a small fan. Meaning not apparent. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 85. Hym. Eur. p. 384. B. & Br. n. 1881. 



*** Stem and pileus tawny, ferruginous. 



100. C. psammocephalus Fr. Wholly tawny-cinnamon. Pileus 

 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, fleshy, thin, convex then plain and at length 

 umbonate and revolute, broken up into minute furfur aceous squam- 

 ules. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, stuffed, at 



