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base; gills thin, adnate, somewhat ventricose, crowded, pallidstraw-colour, then clouded.

On stumps and on the ground, in pine-woods. Mossburn-ford, Jerdon. Coed Coch. Either scattered or fasciculate.Pileus inch across, tawny.

326. A. (Hypholoma) lacrymabundus, Fr.; pileus fleshy,campanulato-convex, obtuse, spotted with innate hairy scales;flesh white, as well as the hollow, fibrilloso-squamose stem,which is slightly thickened at the base; gills adnate, seceding,white, then brown-purple.

On trunks of trees, and on the ground. Pileus not liygro-phanous, as in the next.

327. A. (Hypholoma) velutinus, P.; pileus somewhatfleshy, ovate, then expanded, gibbous, fibrillose, liygropha-nous, at length nearly smooth, fleshy and hollow, equal, fibril-lose, striate; stem yellow-brown; gills truncato-adnexed, ven-tricose, scarcely crowded, brown, then umber, studded withdrops of moisture. (Plate 11, fig. 2.)

On stumps of trees. Extremely common. Very variablein size, but generally larger than the foregoing.

328. A. (Hypholoma) appendiculatus, Bull.; pileus car- .noso-membranaceous, ovate, expanded, smooth, hygrophanous,when dry wrinkled and sparkling with atoms; stem fistulose,equal, smooth, white, pruinose above; gills somewhat adnate,crowded, dirty-white, then rosy-brown. (Plate 11, fig. 3, 4.)

On dead stumps. Extremely common. Veil attached inpatches to the margin.

329. A. (Hypholoma) Candollianus, Fr.; pileus somewhatfleshy, campanulate then convex, expanded, obtuse, smooth,hygrophanous; stem hollow, brittle, subfibrillose, white,striate above; gills rounded, adnexed, crowded, violet, thenbrownish-cinnamon.— FI. Dan. t. 774.