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II, Genuina. — Cuticle ofjyileus never viscid, hut lacerated 

 into scaly fiocci or fibrils. 



* Gills not changing colour, or nmrked loith rufous or black spots. 



86. A. (Tricholoma) rutilans, Schcejf. (p. 99) ; 2-J< in. 

 Epping Forest. 



87. A. (Tricholoma) variegatus, Scop. ; pileus 2-4 in., 

 fleshy, at length flattened, obsoletely umbonate, fragile, 

 sprinkled with purple-reddish fiocci ; flesh whitish, then 

 pallid light-yellow ; stem stuffed, curved, sometimes bulbous, 

 almost naked, or variegated with thin reddish-villous down, 

 yellowish white ; gills rounded, crowded, thin, pale whitish- 

 yellow, edge always entire, acute, and same colour. 



On rotten wood. Epping Forest. 



88. A. (Trieholoma) luridus, Schcpff. (p. 99). 



89. A. (Tricholoma) guttatus, Schaff. ; somewhat 

 csespitose, pileus 3-5 in., cinnamon or pale yellowish, fleshy, 

 dry, broken up into granular or floccose squamules, margin 

 sulcate, at first involute, white-floccose ; flesh firm, white ; 

 gills emarginate, decurrent in the form of lines, crowded, 

 white. 



In woods. Downton. Odour and taste bitter-acrid. 



90. A. (Tricholoma) columbetta, Fr. (p. 99) ; 2-4 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



91. A. (Tricholoma) scalptiiratus, Fr. (p. 101); 2-3 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



Var. argyraceous, Bull. ; more slender and graceful than 

 the typical form, with narrower and more crowded gills. 



In grassy places. 



Var. virescens, Whar. ; similar to last, but turning yellow- 

 ish-green in all parts when bruised or in drying. 



