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nate, at first silky, with superficial squamulose white-villous 

 dowu, becoming smooth, opaque ; fiesh of disc same colour ; 

 stem fistulose, slender, somewhat tough, undulated, exter- 

 nally and internally fuscous, at first paler, white-villous at 

 base and slightly squamulose with white flocci, white ring 

 at apex; gills adnate, broad, pallid-whitish, then cinnamon. 

 In beech woods. Cabalva. Epping Forest. 



142. C. (Telamonia) Cookei, Quel. ; pileus i in., tawny- 

 yellow, invested with a paler, shining, woolly veil ; pileus 

 conical, umbonate, fibrillose ; stem slender, flexuose, stuffed, 

 girt with floccose rings ; gills violet, then reddish, at length 

 rust-colour. 



In woods. 



Subgenus 6. Hygrocybe (p. 193). — Pileus smooth, or supei-ficially 

 white-fibrillose, not viscous, changing colour from moist to 

 dry ; cortina thin, fibrillose or collapsing and forming an 

 irregular zone on stem. 



I. FiRMiORES. — Pileus sonieichat fleshy, convex or camipamdato- 

 convex, expanded, obtuse or gibbous ; margin at first incurved • 

 stem usually attenuated upwards. 



* Stem and cortina white. 



143. C. (Hygrocybe) flrmus, Fr. ; pileus equally fleshy, 

 hemispherical, then expanded, obtuse, becoming smooth, 

 ochraceous, ferruginous when moist ; flesh compact, white ; 

 stem solid, stout, somewhat bulbous, fibrilloso-striate, white, 

 fibrils and cortina becoming ferruginous ; gills affixed, thin^ 

 ferruginous, then cinnamon. 



In woods. 



144. C. (Hygrocybe) subferrugineus, Fr. ; pileus 3 m., 

 ferruginous or watery-cinnamon, more or less hygropha- 

 nous, shining when dry, tawny, becoming pale, unequally 



