Part 24 (1/2)

Differs from _M. foetidus_ in free gills.

[=saxatilis=, Fr. P. depr. striate, reddish; g. adnate, white; s.

glabrous, apex pruinose, reddish.

III. CALOPODES. _Stem short, not rooting, entering matrix abruptly, often with a small floccose tubercle at base. Gills adnate then subdecur. when p. expands._

* _Stem very glabrous upwards, s.h.i.+ning, base simple._

=scorodonius=, Fr. Smell of garlic. P. 1.5-2 cm. soon plane, dry, rufous then pale, wrinkled; g. adnate, whitish; s. 2.5-4 cm. equal, everywhere glabrous, s.h.i.+ning, rufous; sp. 6 4.

=calopus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. even then wrinkled, glabrous, whitish; g. emarginately adnexed; s. 2-2.5 cm. even, glabrous, bay, s.h.i.+ning, not rooting; 7 4.

Habit of _M. scorodonius_, but no smell.

=Vaillantii=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. depr. plicately rugose, whitish; g.

broad, subdecurrent; s. 2-2.5 cm. glabrous, bay, apex paler and thickened; sp. 10 6.

_M. impudicus_ differs in purplish stem with white down when dry. _M.

foetidus_ differs in strong smell.

=angulatus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. soon exp. at length folded and angular, whitish or tinge of tawny; g. distant; s. 2-3 cm. greyish rufescent, thickened at both ends; sp. 7 4.

Closely resembling _M. Curreyi_ and _M. graminum_; differs from former in ventricose gills not attached to a collar; from the latter in the gills not being attached to a collar. _M. calopus_ differs in the s.h.i.+ning, bay stem.

[=Kirchneri=, Thurn. P. often umb. pallid whitish brown; g. subdecur.

distant, whitish fuscous; s. filiform, glabrous, brown.

=languidus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2 cm. umbil. flocculose, rugosely sulcate, whitish tinged yellow or flesh colour; g. narrow; s. 2-3 cm. thickened upwards, pale, naked, base tawny; sp. 6-7 4.

=rubricatus=, Ma.s.s. P. up to 1 cm. soon plane, whitish tinged red; g.

adnexed, white then brownish; s. 1-2 cm. slender, incurved, hollow; sp.

6 3.

** _Stem velvety pruinose, base subtuberculose._

=foetidus=, Fr. Foetid. P. 2-3 cm. exp. and umbil. or wavy, striato-plicate, tawny bay or rufous, pruinose when dry; g. rufescent with a yellow tinge; s. 2-3 cm. hollow, bay, minutely velvety; sp. 7 4.

=inodorus=, Pat. P. thin, exp. reddish brown with adpr. silky down; g.

adnate, crowded, whitish; s. blackish red, apex pale, entirely covered with white bloom.

Differs from _M. foetidus_ in absence of smell.

[=xerotoides=, Tr. P. umbilicate, umber, striate; g. broadly adnate, becoming greyish; s. velvety, base thickened, strigose.

[=lagopinus=, Fr. P. convex, even, glabrous, pallid; g. adnate, pallid; s. pallid, white floccose half way up, apex naked.

=amadelphus=, Fr. P. 3-4 mm. soon plane, disc slightly pruinose, margin at length striate, pale reddish-yellow; g. broadly adnate, broad; s.

pallid, bay below, slightly pruinose 1-1.5 cm.; sp. 4 2.5.