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Var. dispersus B. Br. Pileus 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) broad, 

 ochraceous, convex, delicately marked with small dots, margin 

 furfuraceous. Stem 18 mm.-2.5 cent. (}{-i in.) long, 2 mm. 

 (i lin.) thick, fistulose, thickened upwards or equal, furfuraceous ; 

 ring appendiculate. Gills adnate, plane, pallid, white at the 

 margin. 



On lawn. July. Name dispersus, scattered. From its habit of growth. 

 B. & Br. n. 1348. S. Alycol. Scot. n. 340. A. dispersus Pers. 



** Pileus 'with innate squamules. 



644. A. erinaceus Fr. Pileus 12 mm. (%. in.) \)roa.&, ferrugtn- 



ous-umber, slightly fleshy, convex, nmbilicate, scaly and prickly 

 with very densely crowded, fasciculate flocci, squarrose, at the 

 first involute at the margin and furnished with a cortina. Stem 

 about 12 mm. (> in.) long, not 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, 

 tough, equal, incurved, everywhere shaggy with strigose hairs, 

 -umber -ferruginous. Gills adnate, not much crowded, rather 

 broad, quite entire, of the same colour as the pileus. 



The stem is adnate with the epidermis of the branches by a white, dilated, 

 floccose base, not erumpent. Solitary, arid, persistent like Marasmii. 



On dead branches. Rare. Aug.-March. 



Name erinaceus, hedgehog. Bristly. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 384. Hym. 



Eur. p. 263. Berk. Out. p. 161. C. Hbk. n. 370. 1 1 lust. PI. 480. a. S. 



Mycol. Scot. n. 341. Sow. t. 417. A. adpressus Brig. t. 41. /. 1-5. A. aridus 

 Pers. Bait. t. 28. /. K. 



645. A. siparius Fr. Wholly rufous-ferruginous. Pileus 6- 

 10 mm. (3-5 lin.) broad, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, ob- 

 tuse, not umbilicate, densely villoso-squamulose; flesh thick, soft, 

 not arid. Stem 1-2.5 cent. (Yz-\ in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 stuffed, somewhat soft, equal, tense and straight, almost every- 

 where covered over with scaly villous down which takes the form 

 of a veil sheathing the lower part, the apex being destitute of this 

 covering and pruinose. Gills adnate, somewhat distant, broad, 

 quaternate, 



In the stem there is a very obsolete small tube, not visible to the naked eye. 

 The floccoso-scaly covering is a universal veil, as in A. granulosus, and the 

 margin of the pileus is appendiculate with fragments of the veil. Analogous 

 with A. erinaceus. The flesh is thicker and softer than in that species. 



On wood, soil, cases of caddis-worm, &c. Rare. July. 



Found by Fries on withered stems of Aspidiumfelix mas. Name siparius, 

 a curtain. From the covering formed by the veil. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 385. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 263. Icon. t. 126. /. 2. 'Berk. Out. p. 161. C. Hbk. n. 371. 



