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stem solid, hard, somewhat bulbous, rooted at attenuated 

 base, externally even, smooth, rigid, with a thick carti- 

 laginous separable cuticle, fragments revolute on breaking 

 up ; cortina forming a narrow silky-white zone at margin 

 of pileus ; gills adnate, moderately crowded, watery cinna- 

 mon. 



On the ground in woods. In old pastures beside stumps. 

 Dun. Scone. 



149. C, (Hygrocybo) illuminus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, con- 

 vex, then plane, gibbous, smooth, pale brick-red, reddish- 

 tan when dry, circumference thin, virgate under a lens ; 

 stem somewhat hollow, attenuated, silky-fibrillose, pallid, 

 then becoming ferruginous ; gills adnate, slightly crowded, 

 somewhat distant, pallid, then cinnamon. 



In pine woods. 



150. C. (Hygrocybe) tortuosus, Fr. ; pileus rather fleshy,, 

 convex, somewhat gibbous, smooth, even, shining, ferrugi- 

 nous-bay, brick-red when dry ; stem rather hollow, rigid, 

 equal, somewhat twisted, silvery ; gills adnate, crowded, 

 entire, tawny, becoming purple when bruised. 



In damp pine woods. 



151. C. (Hygrocybe) dilutus, F/-. (p. 194) ; 2 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



"■■■* Stem and gills commonly inclining to violet. 



152. C. (Hygrocybe) saturninus, Fr. ; somewhat csespi- 

 tose; pileus 2-5 in., dark bay-brown, changing colour, 

 umber when damp, soon pale, brick-colour, unequally fleshy, 

 campanulate then expanded, obtuse, even, smooth, super- 

 ficially silky from veil at margin ; flesh violaceous, then 

 whitish ; cortina inferior, abundant, white, not forming a 



