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adnate, seceding, thin, 2-3 Hues broad, margin serrulate, 

 pallid then tan-colour ; stem 4-6 in. long, up to 3 in. thick, 

 cylindrical or swollen at the base, white, apex shining white, 

 squamulose from the superior, membranaceous, deflexed ring, 

 solid; spores elliptical, 12 X i'o /i. 



Agaricvs caperatus, Persoon, Syn., p. 273 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 140 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 348. 



In woods. Solitary, or two or three together. 



Large, stout, but pileus thin in proportion. The young 

 pileus is covered with w^hite flocci, crowded at the even disc 

 and squamulose towards the thin lacunose sulcata margin, 

 becoming naked. A persistent volva is sometimes present 

 at the base of the stem during rainy weather. There is a 

 smaller form in pine woods, with a short stem, 1^3 in. long, 

 and with the pileus even. (Fries.) 



Pholiota terrigena. Fr. 



Pileus Irr-o in. across, fleshy, rather compact, lenticular 

 then flattened, obtuse, adpressedly silky-fibrillose, pale 

 dingy yellow; flesh yellow; gills adnafe with a decurrent 

 tooth, about 2 lines broad, scarcely crowded, yellowish then 

 ferruginous with an olive tinge ; stem about 2 in. long and 

 3-5 lines thick, flesh fibrous, not thickened at the base, 

 dingy yellow, variegated with squarrose, small ferruginous 

 wart-like squamules; partial veil remains in part on the 

 stem, forming a ring, and in part appendiculate at the margin 

 of the pileus, stuffed ; spores broadly elliptical, 5 x 3 fi. 



Agarinus (Pholiota) terrigenus, Fries, in Yet. Ak. Forh., 

 1851 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 141 ; Cke., Illustr., t. 349. 



Damp ground in woods, &c. 



A small form occurs with the veil obliterated, may readily 

 be confounded with Cortinarim venetus and Cortinarim de- 

 jpexus. (Fries.) 



Pholiota erebia. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then flattened, glabrous, 

 rather viscid, hygrophanous, often wrinkled, margin striate, 

 umber with an olivaceous tinge, ochraceous-tan when dry ; 

 flesh thin, dingy ; gills adnate, rather distant, 2 lines broad, 

 pallid then dingy cinnamon ; stem 2 in. long, 3-4 lines 

 thick, equal, somewhat striate, soon pale, hollow ; ring 



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