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changing colour; stem fistulose, of the same colour, furfura-ceous; gills thick, distant, adnexed, bright-coloured. (Plate19, fig. 3.)

Amongst leaves, twigs, etc. Coed Coch, abundant. Pileus1-14 inch across, variously tinged with brown and lilac.Very beautiful.

7. M. Stephensii, B. and Br.; csespitose; pileus depressed,rugose in the centre, cream-coloured, stained with vinous-red,especially when bruised; stem hollow, twisted, white andmealy above, shining and nut-brown below; gills distant,dirty-white.— Ann. of Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. xiii. p. 403.

Amongst dead beech-leaves. Dursley, Dr. Stephens. Pileus£-1 inch across. Taste and smell like that of M. oreades.

8. M. erythropus, Fr.; inodorous; pileus slightly fleshy,convexo-plane, then obtuse, even, turning pale, at lengthwrinkled; stem fistulose, striate, smooth, dark-red, somewhatpruinose when dry, clothed with white strigose hairs at thebase; gills nearly free, broad, connected by veins, quiteentire, dirty-white.

Amongst leaves, near stumps. Not uncommon. Gills notcrowded. Pileus pallid, sometimes shaded with pink. Wallsof cavity of stem fibrillose.

9. M. archyropus, Fr.; inodorous, fasciculate; pileusslightly fleshy, convexo-plane or depressed, smooth, turningpale; stem stuffed, then hollow, rigid, straight, pale-rufousbeneath the white pruinoso-tomentose bark; gills adnexed,seceding, crowded, linear, pallid.— Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 25. f. 4.

Amongst leaves. Rare. Bristol, H. 0. Stephens. Pileusabout 1 inch across, tan-coloured. A small but elegantspecies.

10. M. seorodonius, Fr.; garlic-scented; pileus slightlyfleshy, tough, even, soon plane, rugulose and crisped; stem