DERMINI. 293 



Single, slightly rigid. Spores rubiginous. Galera. 



On soil in gardens, and on dung. Rare. March. 



Spores 15-18 x 8 mk. B. & Br. Name ami, opposite ; n-ov's, a foot. Ap- 

 parently of the root as compared with the stem. Lasch n. 401. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 268. Monogr. ii. p. 303. Icon. t. 128. /. 2. B. ijr 3 Br. n. 1251. 

 C. Hbk. n. 378. Illust. PL 463. a. 



656. A. confertus Bolt. Pileus fuscous, fuscous-ochraceous 

 when dry, hygrophanous, somewhat membranaceous, acutely 

 conico-campanulate, striate, smooth. Stem slender, silky, shining, 

 naked, the equal base very deeply rooted. Gills slightly adnexed, 

 somewhat distant, white then becoming fuscous-ochraceous. 



Spores fuscous-ferruginous. Very crowded, somewhat csespitose, very 

 fragile. 



In hothouses, c. Halifax. 



In large specimens it is about 2.5 cent, (i in.) in diameter. Bolt. Name 

 confertus, crowded together. Bolt. t. 18. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 268. Berk. Out. 

 p. 163. C. Hbk. n. 379. Illust. PL 463. b. after Bolton. 



657. A. sparteus Fr. Watery ferruginous or cinnamon, becom- 

 ing pale. Pileus 12 mm. ( l / 2 in.) broad, hygrophanous, tan when 

 dry, membranaceous, campanulato-convex then expanded, obtuse, 

 striate, smooth. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, not 2 mm. (i 

 lin.) thick, delicately Jistulose, tense and straight but flexile, 

 polished, smooth, darker somewhat date-brown at the base. Gills 

 wholly adnate, somewhat linear, crowded, at length plane, darker 

 than the pileus. 



Gregarious, very tender. It holds an intermediate place between this and 

 the following group, approaching nearest to species in this on account of the 

 obtuse pileus, crowded gills, and tense and straight stem. Pileus pellucid- 

 striate when moist. 



Among moss. Rare. Sept. 



Name spartum, a grass, esparto. Probably from the stem. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. p. 392. Hym. Eur. p. 269. Berk. Out. p. 163. C. Hbk. n. 380. Illust. 

 PL 481. a. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 349. A. atrorufus Bolt. t. 51. f. i. 



658. A. pygmaeo-affinis Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more 

 broad, somewhat fuscous or honey-colour then tan, fleshy-membran- 

 aceous, campanulate then flattened, dry, without strias, but deli- 

 cately and under a le?is conspicuously reticulato-wrinkled, almost 

 rugged. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fis- 

 tulose, fragile, perfectly equal, shining white, obsoletely pruinose 

 at the apex only when young. Veil scarcely any. Gills slightly 

 reaching the stem, almost free, crowded, thin, quite entire, when 

 young clay-ochraceous, when full grown ferruginous-ochraceous. 



