112 AGARICACE^; Leptonia 



simple, cartilaginous, tubular or stuffed, glabrous, sublustrous. Gills 

 adnexed or adnate, readily separating from their attachment to 

 the stem, not decurrent, variable in colour. Spores smooth or rough, 

 salmon. (Fig. 26.) 



Many of the species are gregarious and grow in troops, they are 

 mostly small, inodorous, except 517 and 524, and often beautiful in 

 colour, shades of light or dark blue or green being frequent. 



All grow on the ground except 521 ; they chiefly grow in mossy 

 pastures and marshy places. One non-British species L. parasiticcr 

 Que'l. grows on the hymenium of 1370. They are most common 

 in rainy seasons. The species generally are suspected to be 

 poisonous. 



Leptonia agrees in structure with Collybia, Naucoria, Psilocybe 

 and Panaolus. Species 514 528 



Pikus slightly fleshy, without striae, hygrophanous. Gills whitish. 



514519 



Gills light or dark blue or bluish. 520 523 



Gills pallid, becoming yellow or green. 524 526 



Pikus somewhat striate, hygrophanous. Gills grey or glaucous. 



527, 528 



514. L. plaeida Karst. (from its pleasing appearance) a. 



P. campanulate, broadly subumbonate, dusky brown or dusky- 

 slate-squamulose on a tan ground. St. stuffed, slaty-blue, 

 black-dotted above. G. adnexed or somewhat adnate, salmon- 

 white, flesh brownish or lavender. 



Usually solitary. By beech-trunks. Autumn. 2 x 2^ x r 3 5 in. 



515. L. anatina Quel. (from the colours ; anatinus, pertaining to a 



duck) a b c. 



P. campanulate, broadly subumbonate, umber-squamulose. St* 

 stuffed, purple-bluish or smalt above, brown and whitish below. 

 G. adnexed or somewhat adnate, pale salmon. 



Fields. Oct. if X i X J in. 



516. L. lappula Quel. (from the prickly pileus ; lappa, a burr) a. 



P. convex, umbilicate, grey or purple-slate ; mid. black-punctate, 

 St. hollow, lilac, shaded brownish. G. subadnate, broad, 

 white, faint greyish or whitish-salmon. 



Odour none. Amongst beech-leaves. Autumn. I J x 2| x T 3 ff in. 



517. L. lampropus Quel. (from the lustrous stem ; Gr. lampros y 



shining, pous, a foot) a b c. 



P. expanded, depressed, mouse-colour, steel-blue, pallid yellowish, 

 brownish or brown. St. fistulose, steel-blue, pale slate or 

 purplish, brownish below, white at base. G. adnexed or sub- 

 adnate, broad, pale salmon. 



Taste and odour somewhat strong, disagreeable. Pastures ; common. 

 July-Nov. if X 2\ X in. 



