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*** PiPERATi. Pileus loithout a 2)eUicle, dry, generally unpolished. 



17. L. flexuosus, Fr. ; pileus 2-4 in., lead grey or violet- 

 grey, pale, zoned or zoneless, fleshy, convex, plane, de- 

 pressed, repand margin bent inwards, at length spreading, 

 erect, dry, smooth, shining, then rivuloso-scaly, unpolished, 

 opaque ; flesh hard, grumoso-compact, white ; stem solid, 

 obese, or attenuated downwards, sometimes eccentric, 

 slightly lacunose, not pitted, pallid grey, apex whitish, base 

 somewhat yellowish; gills adnate, somewhat horizontal, 

 thick, distant, connected by branches, light yellowish, at 

 length whitish flesh-colour, milk white, unchangeable. 



In pine woods, etc. Heywood Forest. Rothiemurchus. 

 Glamis. 



18. L. pyrogalus, Fr. (p. 205) ; 2-3 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



19. L. squalidus, Fr. ; pileus pallid, lurid, compact, 

 convexo- plane, umbilicate, dry, smooth, zoueless; flesh 

 white, sprinkled at margin with saffron-yellow dots ; stem 

 equal, smooth, pallid brown ; gills adnate, narrow, yellowish, 

 milk whitish, sweet. 



In moist places, Scotland. 



20. L. capsicum, Schulz. : pileus 3 in., chestnut, paler 

 at disc, compact, pulvinate, dry, margin closely involute ; 

 flesh yellowish, becoming fuscous on exposure to air; stem 

 solid, firm, whitish, striate, with tawny or rufescent fibrils ; 

 gills adnato-decurrent, somewhat crowded, tawny, somewhat 

 orange; milk white, acrid. 



In woods. Dumfries. 



21. L. chrysorheus, Fr. (p. 206) ; 2-3 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



22. L. acris, Fr. (p. 207) ; 3 in. 



