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Heathy fir-woods. Dorse tshirCj etc. Gregarious. Pileus 

 often tinged with purple. Spores uearly yellow. Stem of 

 the same colour as the i)ileus, but streaked with watery lines. 



7. B. badius, Fr.; pileus soft, pulvinate, viseid, bay-tawny; 

 stem solid, nearly equal, even, paler, pruinose with brown 

 meal ; flesh turning partially blue ; tubes adnate or sinuato- 

 depressed, rather large, angular, dingy-yellow, white, then 

 green. — Kromb. t. 30. /. 15. 



In pine-woods. Eare. Birmingham, Mr. H. MutUieios. 

 Pileus viseid in wet, shining in dry weather. 



8. B. sanguineus, IVith. ; pileus eonvexo-plane, even, 

 smooth, viscid, blood-red ; stem equal, even, variegated M'ith 

 yellow, and blood-red; tubes adnate, broad, unequal, yellow- 

 orange.— ^HV/i. iv. ;;. 319; Sow. t. 225. 



In woods. Rare. I have never found this species. With- 

 ering says nothing about the viscid pileus. 



9. B. piperatus, Bull. ; pileus couvexo-plane, smooth, 

 slightly viseid, yellow, inclining to reddish-grey; stem slen- 

 der, even, brittle, yellow within and at the base ; tubes sub- 

 decurrent, large, angular, ferruginous. — Soiv. t. 31. 



In woods. Not very common. Smaller than any of the 

 foregoing. Taste hot and peppery. 



** Pileus more or less tomentose. 



10. B. parasiticus, Bull.; parasitic; pileus hemispherical, 

 slightly silky, dirty-yellow, as well as the incurved, rigid 

 stem; tubes decurrent, middle-sizicd, rounded, compound, 

 golden-yellow. (Plate 15, fig. 4.) 



On species of Elaphomyces. Rare. Clifton, C. E. B. Abun- 

 dant in Kew Gardens, 1859. Pileus often cracked. Flesh 

 yellow, becoming ruddy when dry. Not at all viscid. 



11. B. variegatus, Fr. ; pileus eonvcxo-plane, obtuse, 



