Part 26

=mimica=, W. G. Sm. Smell strong, fishy. P. 2-3 cm. obtuse, with separable cuticle, dingy ochraceous, as are the broad g.; s. narrowed towards base, ochraceous, 4-5 cm.; sp. 8 x 4-5.

** Gills crowded, narrow.

=maculata=, A. & S. White; P. 5-10 cm. obtuse, compact, becoming spotted with rust colour; g. free, closely crowded; s. 7-12 cm. more or less ventricose, grooved, narrowed below, spotted rusty; subgl. 4-6.

var. immaculata, Cke. Not becoming spotted; g. minutely serrulate.

var. scorzonera, Batsch. Smaller, yellowish, stem long, rooting, often wavy; g. yellowish.

=prolixa=, Fl. Dan. P. 7-10 cm. lax, exp. gibbous, even, glabrous, tawny or brick red tinge; g. free, crowded, narrow, not spotted; s. solid, subequal, not rooting, sulcate, brick-red, 7-9 cm.; sp. 8-9 x 5.

=distorta=, Fr. P. lax, 6-8 cm. exp. umb. glabrous, even, bay then pale; g. narrow, much crowded, soon spotted red; s. 6-8 cm. narrowed from ventricose base, sulcate, more or less twisted, pallid; sp. 6-7 x 4.

=butyracea=, Bull. P. 4-7 cm. exp. umb. even, glabrous, moist and shining, reddish brown then pallid, flesh whitish; g. crenulate; s. 5-8 cm. conical, striate, rufous; sp. 7-9 x 4-5.

var. bibulosa, Mass. P. dingy olive at first.

var. aurorea, Larb. P. thinner, edge striate, flesh rufescent; s. hollow.

=stridula=, Fr. P. soft, soon exp. even, moist, hygr. blackish then pale; g. arcuato-adnexed, white; s. fibrilloso-striate, livid brown.

Distinguished from Trich. melaleucum by the dark stem.

=xylophila=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. lax, campan. then exp. gibbous, disc brownish tan, rest paler; g. adnate, very narrow, much crowded; s. 4-5 cm. subflexuous, fibrillose, whitish; 4 x 2.5.

Caespitose. C. confluens and C. ingrata differ in downy stem.

II. VESTIPEDES. Stem thin, equal, fistulose or medullate, even, velvety, floccose or pruinose.

* Gills broad, rather distant.

=velutipes=, Fr. 3-7 cm. exp. viscid, yellow, glabrous; g. yellowish; s. 5-10 cm. velvety, blackish brown below, rooting; sp. 7 x 3-3.5.

var. rubescens, Cke. P. tawny; g. ochraceous.

var. lactea, Q. P. white; g. broad; s. velvety.

=laxipes=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. obtuse, glabrous, moist, whitish; g. distant; s. 6-12 cm. lax, stuffed, with rufous velvety down; sp. ----.

Much smaller and slenderer than C. velutipes.

=floccipes=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. convex, umb. even, sooty brown then pale; g. thick; s. 3-5 cm. whitish and rough with minute black points, rooting; sp. ----.

=vertiruga=, Cke. P. 1-2 cm. subpulverulent, exp. dull brown or grey, radially wrinkled; g. adnate; s. 4-6 cm. tawny, minutely velvety, base strigose; sp. ----.

Differs from C. stipitaria in adnate gills and dingy pileus.

=stipitaria=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. umb. velvety-squamulose, whitish with brown fibrils; g. ventricose; s. 2.5-5 cm. bay, fibrillose or hairy; sp. ----.

Habitat on fungi like C. tuberosa, from which it differs in adnate gills.

** Gills very narrow, closely crowded.

=hariolorum=, Bull. P. 2-5 cm. exp. glabrous, dingy tan; g. white then pallid; s. 5-7 cm. narrowed upwards, rufescent, woolly-hirsute; sp. 6-7 x 3-4.