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deflexed, with the margin erect; gills rounded, distant, striato-decurrent, white.

On beech. Southern counties. Pure white, or with a ci-nereous tinge. Very beautiful. Two inches or more across.

Subgenus 4. Teicholoma. —Stem fleshy; gills with a sinus be-hind. Veil obsolete, or, if present, floccose, and adhering to

the margin of the pileus.

* Pileus either viscid, squamulose, fibrillose, or 'pubescent.

32. A. (Tricholoma) equestris, Linn. ; pileus yellow, in-clining to reddish, fleshy, compact, obtuse, squamulose, viscid;stem solid, blunt, sulphur-coloured, as well as the free crowdedgills. (Plate 4, fig. 2.)

Amongst fir-leaves. Rare. East Bergholt, Dr. Badham.

33. A. (Tricholoma) sejunctus, Sow.; pileus fleshy, con-vex, at length expanded, umbonate, unequal, slightly viscid,streaked with black fibres; stem stout, solid, ventricose, sub-squamulose ; gills emarginate, rather distant, broad, white.—Sow. t. 126.

Pileus several inches across. I am not acquainted withthis species.

34. A. (Tricholoma) portentosus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, con-vex at first, subumbonate, unequal, viscid, streaked with blackinnate lines ; stem stout, solid, equal, striate ; gills very broad,emarginate, white, at length distant and pallid.

In woods. King’s Cliffe. Closely resembling the last.

35. A. (Tricholoma) fucatus, Fr.; pileus thin, at first co-nical, then convex and expanded, viscid, streaked with innatelines; disc fleshy; stem solid, somewhat bulbous, squamu-lose ; gills emarginate, rather crowded, tinged with yellow.

In pine-groves. Closely allied to A. portentosus. Pileusshining when dry, often dingy. The thin pileus, squamulose

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