494 HYMENOGASTRACE^E Hymenogaster 



touched. GL whitish, passing through buff to rufous olive. 

 Trama white. 



Odour spicy. Woods. May-Nov. Diam. ij in. A form between this 

 and 2117 has been named var. modestus B. & Br. This is H. popidetorum 

 B. & Br. non Tnl. 



2119. H. tener Berk, (from the tender substance ; tener, tender) a b c. 

 Globose, irregular, more or less indented, silky or obscurely scaly, 



soft, tender. Pe. thin, dull white. GL with a conspicuous 

 sterile base, pale rose, then greyish-brown. 



Odour strong, pungent, like the odour of acrid Lactarii, in decay like sewer- 

 gas. Woods, under oak-leaves. Sept. -Jan. Diam. I in. This is H. 

 lilacinus B. & Br. non Vitt. 



2120. H. Thwaitesii B. & Br. (after George Henry Kendrick 



Thwaites) a c. 

 Irregularly ovate or elongate to globose, firm. Pe. dull white, 



here and there discoloured. GL brown. 

 Sept. -Oct. Diam. J in. 



2121. H. griseus Vitt. (from the grey gleba ; griseus, grey) a. 

 Globose, somewhat irregular or depressed. Pe. brown, at first 



covered with evanescent whitish down. GL with minute grey 

 cells which become mottled-blackish. 

 Odour sweet of lily-of-the-valley. In leaf soil. Diam. J in. 



2122. H. pusillus B. & Br. (from the small size ; pusillus^ small) a b. 

 Obovate or subdepressed, white. GL with a comparativel} large 



sterile base, cells comparatively large, dull white. 

 Almost scentless. Mossy ground. Oct. Diam. J in. Yellowish-brown 

 when dry and then closely resembling Sclerotium complanatum. 



RECENT ADDITIONS 



52a. Lepiota serena Gill, (serenns, clear, bright). White. 



P. campanulate, glabrous ; mid. sometimes slightly darkened. 



St. slender, subbulbous. A. deciduous. 

 Amongst grass. Carlisle, Miss Decima Graham, Sept. 1908. ijxagxj in. 



121a. Trieholoma earneolum Karst. (from the colour, caro, flesh). 

 P. hemispherical to convexo-plane, pale flesh-colour. St. partly 

 stuffed, rigid, subpruinose. G. finally very broad, very crowded, 

 white. 

 Grassy places in woods. Yorkshire, Sept. 1908. ij X ij X in. 



154b. Clitocybe obseurata Cooke in litt. (obscitms, obscure). 



P. plane, then infundibuliform, moist, greyish-umber, paler towards 

 marg. St. solid, smooth or slightly striate, slightly attenuate 



