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nous, white when dry ; stem hollow^, uearly equal, fragile, 

 fibrillose, whitish ; gills emarginate, crowded, clay-colour. 

 In beech woods. Taste acrid. 



40. C. (Phlegmacium) deeoloratus, Fr. ; pileus 2-4 in., 

 clay-colour, disc darker, thin, equally fleshy, campanulate, 

 then convex, obtuse, soft, viscous, soon dry, smooth, corru- 

 gated when old ; flesh soft, white, watery ; stem stuffed, 

 thin, somewhat equal, slightly thickened at base, fibrillose, 

 silvery, often curved, smooth, naked at apex ; cortiua infe- 

 rior, fibrillose ; gills emarginate, adnate, or decurrent, not 

 much crowded, broader than flesh of pileus, clay-colour, 

 then cinnamon. 



In beech, pine, and birch woods. Epping Forest. E liii- 

 burgh Fungus Show. 



** (Jills violaceous, purplish, flesh colour. 



41. C. (Phlegmacium) decolorans, Fr. ; pileus H-2-2 in., 

 yellow, fleshy, convex, then flattened, somewhat gibbous, 

 equal, even, smooth, viscous ; flesh thin, firm, white ; stem 

 stuffed, equally attenuated, shining white, smooth above the 

 somewhat distant medial cortina ; gills sinuato-adnexed, 

 crowded, thin, purplish, then soon cinnamon. 



In fir woods. Epping Forest. 



42. C. (Phlegmacium) porphyropus, Fr. : pileus ll -3 in., 

 livid light-yellowish, or clay-colour, thin at margin, convexo- 

 plane, obtuse, even, innately streaked, viscid; flesh thin, 

 soft, whitish, becoming purple-lilac when broken ; stem 

 stuffed, at length hollow, somewhat bulbous or equally 

 attenuated from the thickened base, sometimes equal, 

 fragile, externally and internally violaceous-lilac, then pale 

 or whitish, but soon violaceous-lilac again when touched ; 

 cortina inferior, fibrillose; gills rounded or emarginate, 



