Agaricaceae 



DERMOCYBE. Page 320. 



Cortinarius. Pileus thin, equally fleshy, at first silky with a fine down, becoming 

 smooth when adult. Not hygrophanous, but flesh watery when moist 

 or colored. Stem equal or larger above, externally rigid, elastic or 

 brittle, internally stuffed or hollow. Veil single, thread-like. 



TELAMONIA. Page 323. 



Pileus moist, hygrophanous, at first smooth or sprinkled with the 

 whitish superficial evanescent fibrils of the veil. Flesh thin, or when 

 thick it becomes abruptly thin toward the margin, scissile. Stem ringed 

 below or coated from the universal veil, slightly veiled at the apex, 

 hence with almost a double veil. 



HYGROCYBE. Page 325. 



Pileus hygrophanous, smooth or covered with superficial white fibrils, 

 not viscid, moist when fresh, becoming discolored when dry. Flesh 

 very thin or scissile, rarely more compact at the center. Sem rather 

 rigid, bare. Veil thin, rarely collapsing and forming an irregular ring 

 on the stem. 



PHLEGMA'CIUM. (Gr. clammy moisture.) 



A. CLIDUCHII. 

 * Gills pallid, then clay-colored. 



C. seba'ceus Fr. sebum, tallow. PileilS 2^-5 in. broad, unicolor- 

 ous, pale, of the color of tallow, equally fleshy, convex then rather 

 plane, commonly very repand, viscid, smooth, but at the first covered 

 over with a whitish pruinose luster. Flesh white. Stem 3-4 in. long, 

 /& I in. thick, solid, stout, compact, never bulbous, often twisted and 

 compressed, slightly fibrillose, pale white. Cortina delicate, fugacious, 

 adhering only to the margin of the pileus. Gills emarginate, not 

 crowded, connected by veins, 4 lines broad, clay-color or pallid-cinna- 

 mon, paler at the sides. Fries. 



The flesh of the pileus is not compact at the disk and abruptly thin 

 at the circumference, but equally attenuated toward the margin. The 

 flesh of the stem is white. The gills never turn bluish-gray. Taste 

 mild. Stevenson. 



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