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straight or flexuose, fibrillose, pallid, pale rufescent or with 

 brick-coloured spots, brick-colour internally, externally 

 covered with a pallid separable cuticle ; cortina fibrillose, 

 white, fugacious ; gills adnate, more or less crowded, thin, 

 brick-colour ferruginous. 



In mixed woods. Epping Forest. Frequent. 



172. C. (Hygrocybe) germanus, Fr.; pileus 1 in., hygro- 

 phanous, fuscous wheu moist, clay-colour when dry, opaque, 

 somewhat membranaceous, campanalate, obtusely umbo- 

 nate, fragile, somewhat silky, not squamulose or striate ; 

 stem somewhat fistulose, equal, often twisted, smooth sil- 

 very-pale, somewhat lilac ; cortina fibrillose, fugacious ; gills 

 adnate, somewhat distant, broad, watery-cinnamon. 



In pine woods. Logic, Forfarshire. Epping Forest. 

 Strong smelling. 



*** Stem ydlovish, becommg pale. 



173. C. (Hygrocybe) detonsus, Fr.; pileus 1-2 in., bright 

 yellowish when moist, tan when dry, somewhat membrana- 

 ceous, conical then expanded, somewhat umbonate, slightly 

 silky-smooth, striate to middle, fragile ; flesh thin, whitish ; 

 stem stuffed, then fistulose, equal or attenuated upwards, 

 soft, smooth, pale-yellowish ; gills adnate, ventricose, some- 

 what distant, entire, unicolorous, bright yellowish, then 

 brick-cinnamon. 



Among moss in woods. Glamis. 



174. C. (Hygrocybe) obtusus, Fr. ; pileus ^-H in., bay- 

 brown-ferrugiuous, then cinnamon, when dry pale ochra- 

 ceous, or tan-whitish, somewhat membranaceous, conical 

 then campanulate, at length expanded and obtusely umbo- 

 nate, smooth, striate to margin ; stem spongy-stuffed, soon 

 hollow, thick, curved, attenuated at base, fragile, sprinkled 



