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zone ; gills rounded^ adfixed, broad, crowded^ thin, fragile, 

 purplish, at length watery-ferruginous. 

 In grassy places. Kpping Forest. 



153. C. (Hygrocybo) imbutus, Fr. ; pileus 3 in., sienna- 

 brown, then pale yellowish, unequally fleshy, convex, obtuse, 

 even, smooth, obsoletely hoary-fibrillose at margin ; stem 

 solid, equal, sometimes twisted, even, whitish, pale viola- 

 ceous at apex, same colour internally ; cortina fugacious, 

 white, adhering to margin of pileus and apex of stem ; gills 

 rounded, somewhat distant, at first dark bluish-grey or 

 violaceous-cinereous, then watery cinnamon, never purplish. 



In woods. Dinmore. 



154. C. (Hygrocybe) oastaneus, Fr. (p. 194.) 



155. C. (Hygrocybe) bicolor, Cke.; pileus 1-2 in., rather 

 fleshy, campanulate, then expa;ided, broadly or acutely um- 

 bonate, somewhat fragile, dingy whitish, with an occasional 

 tinge of lilac, even, smooth, silky, shining ; flesh thin, 

 colour of pileus, or paler ; stem equal or attenuated down- 

 wards, pallid violet, becoming whitish, solid ; flesh bright 

 purplish-violet at base, pallid above ; veil fugacious, white ; 

 gills adnate, with a tooth, sub-ventricose, slightly eroded at 

 edge, rather broad, scarcely crowded, purplish-violet, then 

 cinnamon. 



On the ground, in mixed woods. 



*** Stem and someivhat obsolete veil yellom or rn/ous. 



15G. C. (Hygrocybe) balaustinus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, 

 convex then plane, obtuse, moist, virgate with innate fibrils, 

 smooth, reddish ferruginous, tawny, brick-red and shining 

 when dry ; stem solid, conically attenuated, flbrilloso-striate, 



