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fleshy, more compact at disc, convex then expanded, obtuse, 

 slightly flexuose, firm, not rigid, even, smooth, dingy isabel- 

 line-white ; stem variable, solid, more or less bulbous, at- 

 tenuated upwards, adpressedly fibrillose, externally rigid 

 and somewhat cartilaginous, pallid, internally soft, saflFron- 

 yellow at base ; veil fibrillose, marginal, fugacious ; gills 

 emarginate, more or less crowded, opaque, pallid, watery, 

 then dark ferruginous. 

 In woods. Coed Coch. 



145. C. (Hygrocybe) armeniacus, Fr. (p. 193) ; 2-4 in. 



146. C. (Hygrocybe) damascenus, Fr. ; pileus 3 in., 

 fleshy, thin, convex then plane, obtuse then broadly gib- 

 bous, smooth bay-cinnamon, brick-ved and rivulose when 

 dry; stem solid, firm, cylindrical, elastic and, as well as 

 the fibrillose veil, becoming whitish ; gills adnate, thin, 

 crowded, opaque, cinnamon. 



In grassy places. Taste acrid. 



147. C. (Hygrocybe) privignus, Fr. ; pileus 2 in., ground 

 colour fuscous, becoming hoary, pale with a thin white 

 film, pallid-tan when dry; slightly fleshy, convex, then flat- 

 tened or reflexed and undulated, obtusely umbonate, dry, 

 hygrophanous ; stem stuff'ed then hollow, attenuated from 

 base, equal or twisted, pale- silvery, partially white-silky from 

 veil ; gills adnate, broad, not crowded, distinct, at first 

 watery, then opaque-cinnamon, serrated and whitc-firabriate 

 at edge when perfect. 



In pine woods. Herefordshire. 



148. C. (Hygrocybe) duracinus, Fr. ; pileus 2 in., 

 watery brick-colour when moist, tan when dry, opaque, 

 fleshy, plane with a broad obtuse umbo, elevated ridge 

 round margin, which is at first bent inwards, white-silky, 

 then flattened, naked and even, cuticle hard, rigid, fragile ; 



