310 BRITISH FUNGI 



2. Gills narrow, thin, more or less crowded. 



* Stem whitish, not floccosely scaly. 



C. triformis. — Cap 2-4 in. across, somewhat umbonate, brownish 

 or yellowish, paler when dry ; gills yellowish honey-colour, then 

 cinnamon ; stem about j in. long, clavate or somewhat bulbous, 

 pallid, ring white. 



Common in pine and mixed woods. 



C. hiformis.- — Cap i.|-3 in. across, acutely umbonate, rusty brown, 

 pale bay and shining when dry ; gills pale cinnamon, edge crenu- 

 lated ; stem 2-4 in. long, distinctly striate, paler than the cap, ring 

 evident, oblique, whitish. 



In mixed woods. 



** Stem becoming violet. 



C. periscelis. — Cap 1-2 in. across, umbonate, lilac with a white 

 silkiness ; gills broadly adnate, dark rusty ; stem about 4 in. 

 long, lilac, with indistinct brownish zone, often several zones 

 present. 



In swamps under trees, etc. 



C. flexipes. — Cap l-i^ in. across, acutely umbonate, fibrillosely 

 hoary, then naked, dark bay-brown with violet tinge, then pale, 

 torn ; gills purple, then cinnamon, edge whitish ; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, wavy, floccosely squamulose up to the white ring, violet. 



In pine and other woods. 



C. flabellus. — Cap |-i in. across, obtusely umbonate, at first with 

 white superficial scales, olive-brown, then tan-colour and torn into 

 fibrils ; gills dark olive, then rusty ; stem 3-4 in. long, wavy, white, 

 and scaly up to the ring, apex violet. 



In damp places. Smell strong of radishes. 



*** Stem and cap tawny or rusty. 



C. psammocephalus. — Every part tawny cinnamon, same inside, 

 becoming pale and rather golden when dry. Cap about i in. across, 

 soon plane, then umbonate and edge upturned ; gills sinuato- 

 adnate ; stem i-ij in. long, squamulosely peronate. 



In pine woods. 



C. iliopodius. — Cap 1-2 in. across, rather umbonate, cinnamon, 

 then tan ; gills adnate, cinnamon ; stem 3-4 in. long, wavy, tawny, 

 sheathed up to the ring with the white, silky veil. 



In woods. 



C. incisHs. — Cap -|-J in. across, umbonate, fibrillose or squamu- 

 lose, hygrophanous, rust3', then tawny ; gills rusty cinnamon ; 

 stem about i in. long, rusty, veil white, forming a ring or obsolete. 



In pine woods, meadows, etc. 



**** Stem floccosely scaly, and, like the cap, becoming dusky. 



C. hemitrichiis. — Cap 2-3 in. across, umbonate, densely covered 

 near the edge with silky fibrils, brown ■; gills tan, then cinnamon ; 



