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Subgenus 27. Hebeloma (p. 152). 



Margin of pileus at first incurved, cuticle continuous, smooth, 

 somewhat viscid, the partial veil fibrillose or obsolete ; stem 

 fleshy, fibrous, somewhat mealy at apex ; gills sinuato-adnate, 

 edge more or less of a different coloui-, whitish. 



Hebeloma, with Inocybe, corresponds with Tricholoma and 

 Entoloma. Spores somewhat clay colour, not white or rosy. 



I. Indusiati. — Furnished loith a cortina, hy which the 2nleios is 

 often sujierficially silky at the margin. 



624<. A. (Hebeloma) mussivus, Fr.; pileus 2-4 in., 

 yellow, sometimes darker at disc, fleshy, compact, convex, 

 theu plane, unequal, obtuse, viscid, at first even, then re- 

 pand and squamulose ; margin infiexed, at length repand; 

 flesh yellow; stem fleshy, stuft'ed, or hollow at apex, fibril- 

 lose and pruinate at apex, light yellow ; veil fibrillose, fuga- 

 cious; gills emarginate, somewhat crowded, dry, at first 

 yellow, then somewhat ferruginous. 



In pine woods. Ascot. 



625. A. (Hebeloma) fastibilis, Fr. ; somewhat caespitose ; 

 pileus 2 in., pale yellowish or tan, becoming paler, fleshy, 

 convexo- plane, obtuse, somewhat repand, even, smooth ; 

 margin involute, pubescent ; stem solid, fleshy fibrous, 

 stout, often twisted and sub-bulbous, white-silky and fibril- 

 lose, pallid, white-scaly upwards ; cortina white, occasionally 

 ring-like ; gills emargiuate, somewhat distant, rather broad, 

 at first pale white, then dingy clay colour, edge whitish, dis- 

 tilling drops in rainy weather. 



In woods. Ei)piiig Forest. Odour nauseous. Poisonous. 

 Often mistaken for the true mushroom. 



626. A. (Hebeloma) glutinosus, Lind. ; pileus 3 in., 

 vellow-white, disc darker, fleshy, convex then plane, regular, 



