. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. AGARICINI. Telamonia. I. PLATYPHYLLI. Is, broad ; <pv\\ov, a leaf). Gills very broad, rather thick, more or less distant. Stem spongy and wholly fibrous. * Stem and cortina white or whitish. ** Stem and gills violaceous. Cortina commonly white-violaceous, but universal veil white. Very distinguished. *** Stem and veil reddish or yellow. Gills tawny or cinnamon, neither violaceous nor becoming brown. **** Stem becoming fuscous, veil fuscous or dirty, gills dark-coloured. (Inolomata and Dermocybes are often sheathed and


. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. AGARICINI. Telamonia. I. PLATYPHYLLI. Is, broad ; <pv\\ov, a leaf). Gills very broad, rather thick, more or less distant. Stem spongy and wholly fibrous. * Stem and cortina white or whitish. ** Stem and gills violaceous. Cortina commonly white-violaceous, but universal veil white. Very distinguished. *** Stem and veil reddish or yellow. Gills tawny or cinnamon, neither violaceous nor becoming brown. **** Stem becoming fuscous, veil fuscous or dirty, gills dark-coloured. (Inolomata and Dermocybes are often sheathed and ringed, but the pileus is not hygrophanous, and is at the first scaly or silky.) II. LEPTOPHYLLI (AETTTOS, thin ; a leaf). Gills narrow, thin, more or less crowded. Pileus thin. Stem externally more rigid, somewhat cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, often attenuated downwards. * Stem whitish, pallid, notfioccoso-scaly. ** Stem inclining to violet. *** Stem and pileus tawny, ferruginous. **** Stemfloccoso-scaly, and, as well as t/ie pileus, fuscous. XLIV. Cortinartus (Telamonia) artttillatus. One-fifth natural size. I.— PLATYPHYLLI. * Stem and cortina white or whitish. 77. 0. macropus Fr.—Pileus cent. (3 in.) broad, brick- colour, at length becoming ferruginous, fleshy, comparatively thin, convex then flattened, margin at the first inflexed, obtuse, dry, hoary with very small sqnamules, then becoming smooth ; flesh cinereous. Stem cent. (3-6 in.) long, cent. (Yz-i in.) thick, solid, somewhat equal, stout, fibrillose, dingy whitish, then of the same colour as the pileus. Veil distant from the pileus, woven into a narrow ring, white. Gills adnexed, very broad ( cent., Yz-i in.), distant, even at the sides, sometimes crenated, sometimes quite entire, pallid then watery cinnamon. Pileus not compact. In woods. Leigh Wood, Bristol. Oct. Spores pruniform, finely punctate, 8 mk. Q. Name—Ma*P°?, long; TTOV?, a foot. Long-stemmed. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 71. Hym. Eu


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