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colour, here and there tinged with yellow, most minutely 

 squamulose, stuffed with cottony threads ; ring soon ruptured, 

 very fugacious; gills remote, distant, rounded behind, some- 

 times connected, white. 



The whole plant changes in drying, or when cut, to a beautiful 

 red. In the variety the gills are sometimes lemon-coloured. 



987. A. (Clitocybe) giganteus, Fr. Ep. p. 67. Pileo infundibuli- 

 formi nee umbonato, adglutinato-flocculoso, albo, opaco; stipite 

 sequali obeso ; lamellis ex albo flaventibus, breviter decurrentbus. 



In very rainy weather, on a grassy bank, Aboyne, Aberdeen- 

 shire, Aug. 15, 1862. 



Pileus slightly viscid when moist, broadly infundibuliform, 

 without any trace of an umbo, 9 inches across, white, opake; 

 margin incurved, at length sulcatc; stem 2^ inches high, an inch 

 thick, equal, obtuse, minutely ilocculose ; gills at first very narrow, 

 forked behind, decurrent, at length slightly rounded, white, 

 then yellowish. 



This is clearly the plant of Eries, and is, as he says, not very 

 closely allied to A. infundibuliformis ; whereas Sowerby^s plant 

 is so closely allied that it is difficult to separate the two. This 

 moreover grows in more open places, whereas Sowerby's plant 

 has occurred to us only in shady woods and plantations. 



*24. (Clitocybe) maximus, Fr. Ep. p. 67; Fl. Wett. p. 329; 

 Sow. t. 244. 



988. A. (Mycena) marginellusj Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 113. 

 On fir-trunks, amongst Hypnum cupressiforme. Aboyne, 



Aberdeenshire, Aug. 11, 1862. 



Pileus 3 lines across, conical, striate, pallid grey, darker in 

 the centre, minutely rivulose ; margin subcrenulate ; stem short, 

 slightly curved, shining, quite smooth, minutely fistulose ; gills 

 distant, slightly adnexed, white, with a purple margin. 



Under a high magnifying power, the pileus (especially the 

 edge) and stem appear clothed with minute glandular particles 

 similar to those which colour the edge of the gills. 



989. A. (Mycena) fiavo-albus, Fr. Ep. p. 103. A. pumilus, 

 Bull. t. 260. 



On moss at the base of trunks of trees. Common. 



This was formerly mixed up by Fries with A. lacteus, which 

 is very common in fir-woods amongst fallen leaves. The de- 

 scription in * English Flora ' belongs to A. flavo-albus. 



990. A, (Mycena) rugosus, Fr. Ep. p. 106 ; Bull. t. 518. K, M. 

 . On a prostrate oak. Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, Sept. 2, 1862. 



Pileus at first campanulate, then convex, sulcate up to the 

 umbo, cinereous, as well as the short compressed stem, which is 

 glabrous above ; gills distant, cinereous, uncinato-adnate, con- 

 nected by veins. 



