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3. P. paradoxus Berk. Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, deep Paxiiius. 

 rufous-umber or yellowish-brown, fleshy, compact, in some cases 

 subexcentric, convex or pulvinate then plane, scarcely depressed, 



often lobed and sinuate at the margin, dry, adpressedly tomen- 

 tose, not shining. Stem 4 cent. (\ l /z in.) and more long, ife-^ in. 

 thick and when bulbous thicker, solid, bulbous or attenuated at 

 the base, fusiform, somewhat rooted, adpressedly fibrillose, other- 

 wise even and smooth, the cuticle most frequently breaking up into 

 squarrosely revo lute flaps, yellow, sometimes with a dingy pur- 

 plish tinge. Gills truly decurrent, distant, the alternate ones 

 broader, i\j-^j in., entire at the edge, connected by veins at the 

 base and in some cases anastomosing to form pores towards the 

 margin, yellow then golden, reddish when bruised. 



Stem variable in stature. No trace of a veil. Flesh soft, juicy, dingy 

 white, slightly rufous under the cuticle of the pileus, becoming yellow at the 

 base of the stem. Taste and odour scarcely any. 



In woods. Wrekin, Salop, 1875. Sept. 



Spores ovate, oblong, of medium size, lurid ochraceous. Kalchb. 16-17 x 6 

 mk. , with a nucleus at each end. W.P. Name irapd8oov, contrary to expec- 

 tation or rule. From its having features contrary to normal Agaricus, under 

 which Kalchbrenner placed it. Berk. Ag. Kalchb. Fung. Hung. t. i6.f. i. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 244. Grevillea, -vol. iv. p. 118. 



4. P. panseolus Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( J - 2 in.) broad, whitish, 

 fleshy, thin, convexo- plane then somewhat depressed, even, 

 smooth, moist, the thin margin involute ; flesh becoming black. 

 Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) or little more long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) thick, 

 stuffed, striato-fibrillose, rufescent, thickened downwards. Gills 

 slightly decurrent, crowded, narrow, at length watery-ferruginous. 



The whole plant is at first whitish, then the stem is rufescent, and the gills 

 in the end become cinnamon. The gills are separated from the hymenophore 

 by a horny line, and readily separate from the pileus. Spores watery ferrugi- 

 nous, in which it approaches the Tapiniae. 



* spilomaeolus. Pileus spotted as with drops, and, as well as 

 the slender stem, yellowish-white. Gills at length watery ferru- 

 ginous, horny-grey at the base. 



Among fir-leaves. Stoke Poges. 



The spotted pileus and dingy spores at once distinguish it from any Tricho- 

 loma with which it might be confounded. The stem is sometimes incrassated 

 at the base, sometimes quite equal. B. & Br. The var. only is British. 

 Name TravatoAos, all -variegated. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 117 310. Hym. Eur. p. 

 402. B. & Br. n. 1666. Hoffm. Ic. t. io./. i. " 



