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a. CliduchicB. Partial veil depending in the form of a ring from 



the apex of the nearly equal or clavate stem. 



Gills pallid then clay-colour. 974 980 



Gills violaceous or purplish then cinnamon. 981 985 



Gills yellow, cinnamon, ferruginous, not at first whitish or 



violaceous. 986, 987 



Gills olivaceous. 988 990 



b. Scazira. Stem fleshy-fibrous, marginato-bulbous, rounded 



bulbous in 988 and 1007. Cortina commonly inferior, 

 arising from the margin of the bulb. Gills more or less 

 sinuate. 



Gills whitish, then clay-colour or pale cinnamon. 991 994 

 Gills violaceous, dark blue, purplish, then pale cinnamon. 



995998 



Gills ferruginous, tawny or yellow. 999 1005 



Gills olivaceous. 1006 1009 



c. Elasticce. Veil simple, thin, fugacious, median or inferior. 



Pileus usually somewhat thin, often hygrophanous. Stem 

 commonly thin, not usually bulbous, generally attenuate 

 upwards, rigid-elastic, externally subcartilaginous, lustrous, 

 usually becoming hollow. 



Gills whitish, then clay-colour or dull cinnamon. 1010 1014 

 Gills violaceous, purplish or flesh-coloured. 1015 1017 



Gills usually ochre, tawny or ferruginous. 1018 1021 



a. Cliduchice. 



974. C. triumphans Fr. (from the appearance of the stem, like an 



enwreathed triumphal column) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, obtuse, yellow; marg. fringed with Co. 

 St. striate, yellow, with transverse evanescent bands of sienna 

 rings and an imperfect Z. G. emarginate, crowded. Flesh 

 white or sulphur. 



Grassy ground, woods, under birch ; rare. Sept.-Oct. 5 X $& X in. 



975. C. elarieolop Fr. (from the clear colour ; clarus, clear) a b c. 

 P. convexo-plane or depressed, often broken into sc. ; marg. 



fringed with Co. St. white-scaly. G. emarginate or adnate, 

 sometimes almost free, crowded. 

 Mixed woods, under birch, amongst heather. Aug.-Nov. 4^ X 4& X f in. 



976. C. turmalis Fr. (from growing in troops, turma) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, yellow tan; marg. fringed with Co. St. 



evanescent, white or faintly ochreous-woolly, zoned. G. 



variously attached, crowded, serrate. 

 Densely csespitose. Mixed woods, chiefly beech, larch. Sept.-Oct. 



3i X 4^ X f in. 



