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deflexed, with the margin erect ; gills rounded, distant, striato- 

 deciirrent, white. 



On beech. Southern counties. Pure white, or with a ci- 

 nereous tinge. Very beautiful. Two inches or more across. 



Subgenus 4. Teicholoma. — Stem fleshy; gills with a sinus be- 

 hind. Veil obsolete, or, if present, floccose, and adhering to 

 the margin of the pileus. 



* Pileus eitlier viscid, squamulose,fihrillose, or puhcscent. 



32. A. (Tricholoma) equestris, Linn. ; pileus yellow, in- 

 clining to reddish, fleshy, compact, obtuse, squamulose, viscid ; 

 stem solid, blunt, sulphur-colom'ed, as well as the free crowded 

 gills. (Plate 4, fig. 2.) 



Amongst fir-leaves. Rare. East Bergholt, Dr. Badham. 



33. A. (Tricholoma) sejunctus, Sow. ; pileus fleshy, con- 

 vex, at length expanded, umbonate, unequal, slightly viscid, 

 streaked with black fibres ; stem stout, solid, ventricose, sub- 

 squamulose ; gills emarginate, rather distant, broad, white. — 

 Sow. t. 126. 



Pileus several inches across. I am not acquainted with 

 this species. 



34. A. (Tricholoma) portentosus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, con- 

 vex at first, subumbonate, unequal, viscid, streaked with black 

 innate lines ; stem stout, solid, equal, striate ; gills very broad, 

 emarginate, white, at length distant and pallid. 



In vvoods. King^s Clifi'e. Closely resembling the last, 



35. A. (Tricholoma) fucatus, Fr. ; pileus thin, at first co- 

 nical, then convex and expanded, viscid, streaked with innate 

 lines ; disc fleshy ; stem solid, somewhat bulbous, squamu- 

 lose; gills emarginate, rather crowded, tinged Avith yellow. 



In pine-groves. Closely allied to A. portentosus. Pileus 

 shining when dry, often dingy. The thin pileus, squamulose 



