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cinereous, attenuated downwards, rounded and blackish at 

 base ; spines equal, awl-shaped, fuscous-ferruginous, whitish 

 at apex, at first grey -fuscous. — Schaff. t. 271. 

 In pine wood. Forres. 



■-•■■* Spines chamjing colour, ptleits even, smooth. 



4. H. Isevigatum, Sw. ; 4—6 in., pileus umber, fleshy, 

 compact, firm, regular, plane, very smooth, margin circi- 

 nate, not repand; flesh whitish, compact, not fibrous, soft 

 when fresh, pliant when dry ; stem short, thick, even, 

 pallid-fuscous ; spines thin, same colour. — Sv. citl. Sv. t. 81. 



In pine woods. Rannoch. 



5. H. fragile, Fr. ; large, 1:2 in. ; pileus pallid, then 

 cinereous, or brick-rufescent, somewhat zoned towards 

 margin, fleshy, fragile, unequal, surface pubescent then 

 smooth, even, but here and there minutely squamulose and 

 slightly wrinkled, margin undulated and lobed ; flesh grey, 

 somewhat zoned; stem stout, unequal, smooth, cinereous; 

 spines scarcely decurrent, very much elongated, slender, 

 fragile, whitish then grey. — Sc. ntl. Sv. t. 89 ; Ber(/. Pyr. 

 /. 16 ; Paul t. 34. 



In pine woods among heath. Hare. 



"•■'•■■* Spines unchangeable, unicolourous, whitish. 



G. H. repandum, L. (p. 258) ; Epping Forest. 



Var. rufescens, P. ; 2-3 in., pileus thin, somewhat regu- 

 lar, pubescent; stem thin, unequal; spines regular. — 

 Bolt. 89. 



tt LiGXoSA. — Pileas corky or coriaceous, tough. 



* Spines changing colour, and as icell as the spores, somewhat 



Juscous. 



7. H. compactum, Fr. 'p. 258) ; 1-6 in. 



