Part 11 (1/2)

var. _adstringens_, Pers. P. exp. pitch black and rather s.h.i.+ning when dry; g. tinged pink; s. naked.

var. _polioleuc.u.m_, Fr. P. obtusely umb. livid then grey; s. apex white-pruinose.

var. _porphyroleuc.u.m_, Bull. P. fleshy, umbo disappearing, sooty or fuscous-rufescent; s. solid, subfibrillose; g. white.

[=microcephalum=, Karst. P. 2-3 cm. convexo-plane, livid-sooty then pale; g. much crowded, soft, white; s. tall, 9-12 cm. splitting easily into fibres, pallid, glabrous; sp. subg. 5-6 5.

[=turritum=, Fr. P. conico-exp. umb. moist, obscure purple, somewhat spotted; g. soon free, white; s. stuffed then hollow, white with dusky fibrils.

=grammopodium=, Bull. P. 7-12 cm. camp. conv. then depr. umb. glabrous, ruddy then pallid; g. arcuato-adnate, crowded; s. 7-10 cm. stuffed, coa.r.s.ely striate, glabrous, pallid; sp. 7-8 4.

[=strictipes=, Karst. P. soft, gibbous, plane or depr. white or yellowish-white, centre often tinged; g. closely crowded, s.h.i.+ning white, entire; s. solid, equal, cylindrical, base usually thickened, straight, white, glabrous; sp. 6-9 4-5.

=brevipes=, Bull. P. 3-6 cm. brown then pale, glabrous, convex then plane; g. crowded, tinged fuscous then pale; s. 2-2.5 cm. solid, rigid, brown outside and inside; sp. 7 4.

=humile=, Pers. P. 5-8 cm. umb. then convex or depressed, even, glabrous; g. crowded, ventricose; s. 3-5, greyish white, villosely pulverulent, stuffed; sp. 7-8 5.

Differs from _T. brevipes_ in pale stem and tufted habit.

=exsicc.u.m=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. exp. then umb. greyish brown then h.o.a.ry; g.

crowded, narrow, pure white; s. 2-3 cm. solid, glabrous, rather s.h.i.+ning; sp. 6-7 4.

=subpulverulentum=, Pers. P. 2-3 cm. greyish white, pulverulent, convex then depr. even, extreme edge persistently incurved; g. crowded, narrow, white; s. 3-4 cm. solid, whitish, slightly striate; sp. 5 3.

[=persicinum=, Fr. P. obtuse, even, glabrous, flesh-colour then pale; s.

cartilaginous, glabrous; g. arcuate, white.

[=Juranum=, Q. Obtuse, rufous then pale, white-floccose, margin crenulate, mealy; g. white, crowded; s. solid, white, apex mealy.

** _Gills violet, grey or smoky._

[=urb.u.m=, Fr. P. campan.-exp. brownish black with bluish tinge, sub.u.mb., margin straight; g. densely crowded, like flesh, bluish white; s.

incurved, fibrillose, bulbous.

=sordidum=, Fr. P. 2.5-7 cm. plano-depr. sub.u.mb. glabrous, brownish lilac then dusky; g. rounded, dingy violet then dusky; s. 4-5 cm.

coloured like p. fibrillosely striate, slightly curved as a rule; sp.

7-8 3-4, minutely rugulose.

Differs from _T. nudum_ in being smaller, tougher, and hygrophanous.

var. _Feuilleauboisii_, Lucand and Quel. The broadly gibbous p. and s.

dark umber; g. deep violet.

=paedidum=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. soon depr. round conical umbo, smoky grey, somewhat streaked; g. crowded, adnexed, narrow, white then greyish; s.

2-3 cm. dingy grey, slightly striate base thickened; sp. 10-11 5-6.

Differs from _T. sordidum_ in having no trace of violet colour; _T.