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obtuse, with a tenacious viscous gluten, slimy in wet 

 weather, sprinkled with white superficial squamules ; flesh 

 whitish then light yellow; stem stuffed, firm, somewhat 

 bulbous, white-squamulose and fibrillose, white-mealy at apex, 

 often strigose at base, at length ferruginous within ; partial 

 veil manifest as a cortina ; gills sinuato-adnate, somewhat 

 decurrent, crowded, broad, pallid, light yellowish, then clay- 

 cinnamon. 



On branches and among leaves of oak and beech. 



627. A. (Hebeloma) testaceus, Batsch (p. 157) ; 1^ in. 



628. A. (Hebeloma) flrmus, P. ; 2-3 in., brick-red, 

 fleshy, campanulate, then flattened or depressed, umbonate, 

 the broad umbo darker, thin at circumference, even, 

 smooth, viscid ; stem solid, firm, commonly attenuated and 

 darker downwards, clothed with white floccose squamules ; 

 cortina white, gills rounded, crowded, thin, dry, clay colour, 

 ferruginous, white-serrulated at edge. 



In fir woods. Laxton Park. 



629. A. (Hebeloma) claviceps, Fr. ; pileus pallid, 

 convex then expanded, fleshy at the gibbous disc, even, 

 naked ; stem stuffed, equal, white-mealy, fuscous down- 

 wards; gills emarginate ; crowded, dry, pallid. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. 



630. A. (Hebeloma) punctatus, Fr. ; gregarious ; 

 pileus 1-2 in., fleshy, convex, plane, disc gibbous, darker 

 and viscoso-papillose, at length depressed, becoming pale 

 round centre ; at first superficially silky round margin 

 with the whitish fibrillose veil ; stem at first hollow, equal, 

 dry, pallid, white-pruinose at apex, otherwise silky-fibrillose 

 with adpressed veil ; gills arcuato-adnate, slightly ventri- 

 cose, crowded, entire, narrow, plane, pallid. 



In pine woods. Uncommon. 



