HEBELOMA. 177 



Knes tliick, eqiial or tliickened at the base, indistinctly 

 fibrillose, white, apex mealy, base becoming tinged brown ; 

 spores elliptic-oblong, 10 x o /x. 



Aijarictis loiKjicaudus, Persoon, Sju., p. 332 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 1(34; Cke., lllustr., pi. 415. 



In -n-Qods. 



Smell weak, not nnpleasaiit. 



Tar. radicatus, Cke., Hdbk., p. 164; Cke., lllustr., 

 pi. 416. 



Stem fusiform, rooting. 



Judging from Cooke's figure of the present variety, it 

 closely resembles Flammula iiiajwda. 



Among fir leaves. 



Hebeloma lugens. Jungh. 



Pileus 2—3 in. across, fleshy, convex then almost plane, 

 glabrous, slightly viscid, brown then yellowish; gills almost 

 free, fragile, crowded, pallid then ferruginous, margin crenn- 

 late, darker; stem 2-3 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, solid, 

 shining, fibrillosely striate, somewhat bulbous, apex with 

 white meal. 



Aqariciis Jiiipns, Jungh., Linn., v. p. 399 ; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur.", p. 241 ; "Cke., Hdbk., p. 164. 



In woods. 



Smell strong, but not like radishes. 



Hebeloma truncatum. SchaefT. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, convex then ex- 

 panded, very obtuse, wavy and very irregular, even, glabrous 

 or slightly supei-ficially silky near the margin, scarcely 

 viscid, somewhat rufous, tlie margin, which is at first in- 

 curved, paler; gills emargiuate, almost free, narrowest 

 behind, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, dry, not spotted, white, 

 soon pallid or with a flesh-coloured tinge, at length watery 

 ferruginous, margin quite entire and wavy ; stem solid, 

 robust, scarcely 1 in. long, -f^6 lines thick, about equal, 

 white, everywhere minutely pruinose under a lens; veil 

 none; spores pip-shaped, 12-13 x 6-7 fi. 



Agaricus ii-uncatus, Schaeffer, t. 251; Cke., Hdbk., p. 164; 

 Oke., Dlustr., pi. 417. 

 , In woods. 



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