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Amongst grass. Common. Pilcus yellow, but soon pre- 

 senting the salmon-tint of the gills. 



4. B. tener, B. ; very delicate ; pileus white, moist, conical, 

 elongated ; stem white, bulbous at the base ; gills attenuated 

 behind, nearly free, salmon-coloured. (Plate 12, fig. 3.) 



Amongst short grass on a lawn. Apethorpe. At first 

 looking like a dry specimen of ^. tener. 



4. COETINARIUS, Fr. 



Gills membranaceous, persistent ; traraa floecose. Veil con- 

 sisting of arachnoid threads. Spores rusty-ochre."^ 



Subgenus 1. Phlegmacium. — Pellicle of pileus viscid when moist. 

 Veil, and consequently the stem from which it springs, dry. 



1 . C. (Phlegmacium) caperatus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, ovate, 

 then expanded, obtuse, moist, incrusted with superficial white 

 fiocci ; stem stout, smooth, squamulose at the top from the 

 reflected, membranaceous ring ; gills adfixed, separating, ser- 

 rate, crowded, clay-coloured. — Bot. of East. Borders, with a fig. 



In woods. Very rare. Berwickshire. Lancashire, Rev. H. H. 

 Hi(/yins. A large and noble species, of a beautiful yellow. 



2. C. (Phlegmacium) varius, Fr. ; pileus compact, hemi- 

 spherical, flattened, even, viscid; margin smooth; flesh white; 

 stem short, solid, closely flocculose, dirty-white ; gills crowded, 

 emargiuate, quite entire, purplish, then pallid-cinnamon. — 

 Schaff. t. 42. 



In woods. Not common. King's Clifle. 



* The colours of CortinaHi arc not only vei'y fugitive, but tlicy change greatly 

 according to the condition of the atmosphere. Those, therefore, which are 

 mentioned, except sometliing is said to the contrary, belong only to the young 

 plant before it has been exposed to weatlier. The colour of the spores m most 

 of the species is that of peroxide of iron ; in a very few exceptional cases it 

 is of a bright tawny. 



