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bicular, umbilicate^ dirty-uliitc, adorned with innate black 

 scales ; stem slender, squaniulose, with a decided veil ; gills 

 attenuato-decurrcnt, very narrow, white, tinged with yellow. 

 —Sow. t. 68. 



On old stumps. Rare. King's Cliffe, on an oak-stem. 

 Smell strong, acrid, like that of iLome Lactarii. Gills forming 

 little villous pores above the filmy ring. 



2. L. Bunalii, Fr. ; small ; jnlcus fleshy-coriaceous, thin, 

 urabilicate, often excentric, pallid, clothed with adpressed 

 spot-like scales ; stem short, rough towards the base with 

 little black scales; gills decurrent, crowded, pallid. (Plate 15, 

 fig. 2.) 



On ash-trees. Rare. Dorsetshire. Smaller than the last, 

 and harder. Perhaps merely a variety. The character given 

 by Fries does not accord with De Candolle's description, still 

 less with Bull. t. 36. It is perhaps too near L. tigrinus. 

 Odour subacid, farinaceous. 



3. L. lepideus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, compact, tough, convex, 

 then depressed, unequal, pallid-ochraeeous, broken up into 

 darker spot-like scales ; stem stout, rooting, tomentoso-squa- 

 mose ; gills sinuate, decurrent, broad, torn, transversely striate, 

 dirty-white.— >Sfot^. t. 382. 



On stumps of firs. Rare. Pileus 2-4 inches across. Often 

 producing stems without pilei, and variously l^ranched. 



4. L. adhserens, Fr. ; pileus rather fleshy, tough, irregular, 

 lacunose, subpiilverulent, dingy, pallid, glutinoso-laccate, as 

 well as the somewhat hollow, rooting stem ; gills decurrent, 

 forming lines on the stem, very thin, torn, white. — With. iv. 

 2). 160. 



In pine-woods. The citation of Withering is doubtful, as 

 he says nothing as to the substance on which his plant grows, 

 though his description corresponds. 



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