CLASSIFICATION 301 



C. alboviolaceus. — Cap 2-3 in. across, umbonate or gibbous, 

 whitish violet, silky ; gills greyish violet, then cinnamon ; stem 

 about 2 in. long, clavately bulbous, whitish violet outside and 

 inside. 



In beech woods, etc., among fallen leaves. 



C. malachius. — Cap about 2 in. across, pale lilac, then rusty 

 brown, paler when dry, hoary ; gills crowded, purple, then rusty ; 

 stem 3-4 in. long, bulbous, bluish lilac, then whitish, veil sometimes 

 peronate, but the stem is usually naked. A perfect membranaceous 

 ring sometimes present. 



In fir woods. 



C. camphoratus. — Cap 2-3 in. across, silky and lilac, then almost 

 smooth and whitish or yellowish, flesh blue ; gills deep sky-blue, 

 then purplish ; stem 3-5 in. long, bulbous, woolly-peronate when 

 }-oung, bluish, violet inside. 



Smell foetid, penetrating. 



In pine woods, etc. 



C. hircinus. — Cap about 2 in. across, with adpressed violet fibrils, 

 becoming rusty ; gills broad, violet, then cinnamon ; stem bulbous, 

 violet, then pallid. 



In fir woods. Exceedingly foetid, goat-like odour. 



*** Gills and veil cinnamon, red or ochraceous. 



C. traganns. — Cap about 3 in. across, purple-lilac, soon pale, then 

 almost glabrous and yellowish ; gills safi^ron-ochre, then cinnamon ; 

 stem 3-5 in. long, stout, bulb large, villose, violet, then whitish, 

 inside deep saffron-ochre. 



Readily known by the foetid odour and saffron-ochre gills. 



In pine woods. 



C. siiillus. — Cap 3-4 in. across, pallid brick-red, squamulose ; 

 gills adnate, broad, cinnamon ; stem 3-4 in. long, clavately bul- 

 bous, pallid, apex with a fleeting violet shade. 



In pine woods. 



C. tophaceus. — Cap 3-4 in. across, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, tawny ochraceous, villosely scaly, flesh white ; gills emar- 

 ginate, distant, tawny cinnamon ; stem 2-3 in. long, more than i in. 

 thick at the bull,ous base, villosely scaly, yellowish, as is also tlie 

 veil. 



Solitary specimens often large. When tufted the specimens are 

 more slender, stem often twisted. Differs from C. redemitus in the 

 very obtuse cap and bulbous stem. This species is said to be 

 sometimes wholly golden yellow. 



In beech woods, etc. 



C. redemitus. — Cap 2-3 in. across, thin, con\ex, then expanded, 

 at length broadly gibbous, golden yellow, deepest and rather tawny 

 at the disc, variegated with darker adpressed, fibrillose squamules ; 



