Part 30

Differs from M. prasiosmus in yellowish gills and stem everywhere pubescent.

** Base of stem naked, often formed of twisted fibres.

=oreades=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. subumb. glabrous, brownish then pale; g. free, broad, distant, pale; s. 3-6 cm. pallid, everywhere with a downy surface; sp. 8 x 5. Edible.

=plancus=, Fr. P. 2-... cm. pliant, plane or depr. even, rufescent then pale; g. narrow, tinged ochraceous-brown; s. 3-5 cm. with white down, base narrowed, naked; sp. ----.

Differs from M. oreades in narrower, darker coloured gills.

=scorteus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. pallid, exp. obtuse, even, wrinkled; g. broad, distant, white; s. 2-4 cm. obsoletely hollow, equal, tinged fuscous, glabrous, apex slightly mealy; sp. 8 x 6.

Resembling M. oreades, but smaller and stem glabrous.

II. TERGINI. Stem rooting, distinctly tubular, not fibrous, evidently cartilaginous. Gills becoming free.

* Stem woolly below, glabrous above.

=prasiosmus=, Fr. Smell of garlic. P. 1.5-2 cm. pale yellow or whitish disc, often darker, wrinkled, g. adnexed; s. 4-7 cm. pallid and glabrous above, thickened and subtomentose below and brownish; sp. 14-15 x 7.

Differs from M. porreus in white gills and estriate pileus.

=varicosus=, Fr. P. 1.5-3 cm. reddish brown, plane or depr. wavy, subumb. darker when dry; g. closely crowded, very narrow; s. 5-8 cm. reddish, with red juice, base with reddish down; sp. 4 x 3.

=fuscopurpureus=, Fr. 2-2.5 cm. exp. often umbilicate, purplish brown then pale; g. attached to collar then free, tinged reddish; s. 2.5-7 cm. dry, dingy purple, base with reddish down; sp. 4-3.

=terginus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. exp. obtuse, shining, reddish, then pale, striate at margin; g. narrow, free; s. 5-8 cm. glabrous, shining, pallid, reddish below with white down, rooting; sp. 6-7 x 4.

Much like M. prasiosmus and M. porreus, differing from both in absence of smell.

** Stem (at least when dry) everywhere pruinosely velvety.

=Wynnei=, B. and Br. P. 2.5-4 cm. soon plane, subumb. lilac-brown; g. adnexed, lilac; s. 3-6 cm. paler than p., scurfy; 7-8 x 4.

=erythropus=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. obtuse, even, then rugulose, pallid; g. broad, lax, pallid, connected by veins; s. 5-8 cm. hollow, striate, glabrous, dark red, base with white down; sp. 8-10 x 5-6.

Differs from Collybia acervata by the broad distant gills.

=archyropus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. plane or depr. glabrous, pallid; g. crowded, linear, pallid; s. 6-10 cm. rigid, straight, pale rufescent, coated with white down, base similar; sp. subgl. 4-5.

Differs from M. terginus in tufted habit, and from M. prasiosmus in absence of smell.

=torquescens=, Q. P. 1-1.5 cm. plane, rugosely striate, pallid; g. free; s. 4-5 cm. brown, minutely velvety, apex pale and glabrous; sp. 5 x 4.

=impudicus=, Fr. Smell foetid. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. rugulosely striate, reddish bay, then pale; g. tinged red then pale; s. 3-5 cm. equal, purplish, covered with white down when dry, base naked, rooting; sp. 8 x 4-5.

Differs from M. foetidus in free gills.

III. CALOPODES. Stem short, not rooting, entering matrix abruptly, often with a small floccose tubercle at base. Gills adnate then subdecur. when p. expands.

* Stem very glabrous upwards, shining, base simple.

=scorodonius=, Fr. Smell of garlic. P. 1.5-2 cm. soon plane, dry, rufous then pale, wrinkled; g. adnate, whitish; s. 2.5-4 cm. equal, everywhere glabrous, shining, rufous; sp. 6 x 4.

=calopus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. even then wrinkled, glabrous, whitish; g. emarginately adnexed; s. 2-2.5 cm. even, glabrous, bay, shining, not rooting; 7 x 4.