Leptonia 



AGARICACE/E 



III 



511. C. vilis Gill, (vi/is, insignificant) a b c. 



P. convex, depressed, grey. St. fistulose, colour as P. G. 



crowded, pale salmon. 

 Downs, amongst moss. July-Aug. i x 2 x in. 



512. C. stilboeephalus Sacc. (from the sparkling pileus; Gr. stilbo, 



to glisten, kephale, a head) a b. 

 P. campanulate, obtuse or umbonate, whitish or greyish ; um 



and marg. sometimes ochreous. St. hollow, pale greyish, 



pallid below. G. sinuate, veined, salmon. 

 Odour of new meal. Aug.-Oct. i X 3^ X \ in. 



513. C. straminipes Sacc. (from the strasv-coloured stem ; stramen, 



a straw, pes, a foot) a b. 



P. expanded, depressed, subumbonate, glabrous, shining-silky, 

 whitish or faintly ochreous. St. hollow, white-farinose above. 

 G. salmon. 



Among grass. Sept. 2 X 2 X J in. Very fragile. 



XVII. LEPTONIA Que'l. 

 (From the slender growth ; Gr. lepos, slender.) 



Veil indicated by fibrillas, scales, dots on stem, etc. Hymenophore 

 confluent with but heterogeneous from the cartilaginous stem. 



Fig. 26. A, section of Leptonia lampropus Quel., showing at 

 B separation of gills from hymenophore ; c, section of L. chalyba-a 

 Quel. Natural size. 



Pileus thin, umbilicate or with a dark middle, cuticle fibrillose or 

 .separating into darker scales ; margin at first incurved. Stem central, 



