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depressed, obtuse, even, growing pale ; stem hollow, soon 

 compressed, with a villous white bark, rather attenuated and 

 naked at base ; gills receding, free, distant, linear, darker. 

 In woods. 



6. M. scorteus, Fr. ; pileus h in., pale when dry, 

 slightly convex, scarcely umbonate, even, not striate at 

 margin, slightly wrinkled when dry; stem obsoletely 

 fistulose, thin, filiform, equal, not rooted, smooth, delicately 

 pruinose at apex, contorted and fuscous when dry ; gills 

 free, broad, rounded behind, ventricose, white. 



In grass among trees. MoncreiflFe. 



B. Tergini. — Stem roothnj, tubular, not Jibrous, cartilaginous; 

 gills separating -free ; pileus thinner than in forme/)' section, 

 hygrophanous, sometimes even, sometimes striate at margin. 



* Stem voolly dowmoards, smooth upwards. 



7. M. prasiosmus, Fr. ; pileus rather membranaceous, 

 tough, campanulate, then convex, flattened, obtuse, rugu- 

 lose ; stem fistulose, pallid above, becoming smooth, in- 

 crassated downwards, pale rufous or fuscous, somewhat 

 tomentose; gills adnexed, a little crowded, at first white. 



Among leaves. Strong scented. 



8. M. varicosus, Fr. ; pileus \ in., fuscous purple, darker 

 when dry, somewhat membranaceous, pliant, campanulate, 

 then convex, plane, umbonate, even ; stem thin, fistulose, 

 rubiginous, blackish when dry, smooth above, containing 

 dark blood-coloured juice ; gills separating-free, crowded, 

 linear, narrow, same colour as pileus, becoming dark, 

 umber-fuscous when dry. 



In damp mossy places. Apethorpe. 



9. M. fuseo-purpureus, Fr. (p. 219) ; i-1 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



