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changing colour; stem fistuloso, of the same colour, furfura- 

 ccous; gills thick, distant, adncxcd, bright-coloured. (Plate 

 19, fig. 3.) 



Amongst leaves, twigs, etc. Coed Coch, ahundant. Pilcus 

 1-H inch across, variously tinged with brown and lilac. 

 Very beautiful. 



7. M. Stephensii, B. and Br.; csespitose; pileus depressed, 

 rugose in the centre, cream-coloured, stained with vinous-red, 

 especially when bruised; stem hollow, twisted, white and 

 mealy above, shining and nut-brown below ; gills distant, 

 dirty-white. — Ann. of Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. xiii. j^. 403. 



Amongst dead beech-leaves. Dursley, Dr. Stephens. Pileus 

 |-1 inch across. Taste and smell like that of M. oreades. 



8. M. erythropus, Fr. ; inodorous ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 convexo-plane, then obtuse, even, turning pale, at length 

 wrinkled ; stem fistulose, striate, smooth, dark-red, somewhat 

 pruinose when dry, clothed with white strigose hairs at the 

 base ; gills nearly free, broad, connected by veins, quite 

 entire, dirty-white. 



Amongst leaves, near stumps. Not uncommon. Gills not 

 crowded. Pileus pallid, sometimes shaded with pink. Walls 

 of cavity of stem fibrillose. 



9. M. archyropus, Fr. ; inodorous, fasciculate ; pileus 

 slightly fleshy, convexo-plane or depressed, smooth, turning 

 pale ; stem stufifed, then hollow, rigid, straight, pale-rufous 

 beneath the white pruinoso-tomentose bark ; gills adnexed, 

 seceding, crowded, linear, pallid. — Pers. Myc. Eur.t. 25. f. L 



Amongst leaves. Rare. Bristol, //. 0. Stephens. Pilcus 

 about 1 inch across, tan-coloured. A small but elegant 

 species. 



10. M. scorodonius, Fr. ; garlic-scented ; pileus slightly 

 fleshy, tough, even, soon jjlane, rugulosc and crisped ; stem 



