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above, purplish below; ring fibrillose; gills adnate, some- 

 what rounded behind, not crowded, lemon-yellow, at length 

 bright-ferruginous. 



On tree fern stems. Kew. Taste very bitter. 



653. A. (Flammula) nitens, Cke. and Mass. ; cfespitose ; 

 pilous 1-1 2 in., hemispherical, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, shining, dry, somewhat silky, purple-brown ; stem 

 equal, solid, flesh-colour, fibrillose ; gills crowded, adnate ; 

 margin entire, pallid, then umber. 



On the ground. Carlisle. 



654. A. (Flammula) ochrochlorus, Fr. ; casspitose ; pi- 

 leus fleshy, convex then plane, obtusely umbonate, dry, 

 minutely silky, rather squamulose, greenish straw-colour; 

 stem hollow, squamose, clad with white flocci, flexuose at 

 base and ferruginous within ; gills adaate, crowded, whitish, 

 then greenish, at length olivaceous. 



On old trunks. Scarborough. 



II. LuBRici. — Pileii^ covered ivith a viscous pellicle, cortina 

 fihi'illose. 



655. A. (Flammula) lentus, P. (p. 158) ; 2-3 in. 



656. A. (Flammtda) lubricus, Fr. ; pileus 2-4 in., 

 bright cinnamon, tough, fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 obtuse, occasionally depressed and repand, even, viscous, 

 thin towards margin; flesh white; stem solid, equal or 

 slightly attenuated upwards, dry, laxly fibrillose, whitish, at 

 length fuscous, pubescent at base ; gills adnate, somewhat 

 decurrent, crowded, pallid, then clay-colour. 



On trunks. Tunbridge Wells. 



657. A. (Flammula) lupinus, Fr. ; pileus 3-4 in., tan- 

 fuscous, fleshy, convex, obtuse, then piano-depressed, even, 

 covered with a viscous separable pellicle ; flesh soft, white ; 



