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convex, then flattened, obtuse, silky, becoming even and 

 smooth ; flesh azure-blue, then whitish, here and there 

 reddish when broken ; stem solid, bulbous, fibrillose, dark 

 azure-blue, lilac when touched, azure-blue within, reddish 

 blood-colour on contact with atmosphere, when compressed 

 exuding a watery vinous-reddish juice ; cortina fibrillose, 

 azure-blue; gills rounded, crowded, thin, commonly dark 

 blue. 



In woods. Reading. 



61. C. (Inoloma) muricinus, Fr. ; pileus 3-4 in., com- 

 pact, obtuse, becoming smooth, violaceous, then reddish 

 liver-colour ; margin fibrillose ; flesh blue, becoming whitish ; 

 stem bulbous, without juice, villous, purplish violet, as well 

 as the emarginate rather crowded gills. 



In larch woods. 



62. C. (Inoloma) albo-violaceus, Fr. ; pileus 2—3 in. 

 violaceous- white, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate, dry, 

 innately silky and even; flesh juicy, azure-blue white, 

 solid, firm, clavato-bulbous, or conico-attenuated, externally 

 and internally white-violaceous, white- villous, fibrillose above 

 with the cortina, often with the white veil as a zone at the 

 middle ; gills adnate, somewhat distant, somewhat serru- 

 lated, cinereous-violaceous, at length cinereous-cinnamon. 



In shady woods. Forres. Epping Forest. 



63. A. (Inoloma) malachius, -Fr. ; pileus 2 in., rather 

 compact, obtuse, pallid lilac, then tawny- ferruginous or 

 hrick-red, becoming pale with a whitish pubescence, soon 

 discoloured and smooth, at first clad with white fibrils ; 

 stem bulbous with a bluish veil, the veil and interior 

 becoming whitish ; gills emarginate, crowded, pallid, pur- 

 plish, then watery-ferruginous. 



In fir woods. 



