LEUCOSPORI. 157 



low, -polished, smooth, fuscous then grey, slightly villous at the base. Omphalia. 

 Gills decurrent, thick, somewhat distant, equally attenuated at 

 both ends, grey, edge arcuate. 



In the one form (becoming fuscous) which seems the younger, the adnate 

 gills are slightly, but in the other deeply, decurrent. 



On grass avenue in wood. Coed Coch, 1866, c. Aug.-Sept. 



Name rus, the country. Rustic; occurring in wild, grassy, &c. .places. 

 Fr. Monogr. \. p. 185. Hym. Eur. p. 159. B. & Br. n. 1217 bis. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 197. A. ericetorum Pers. Obs. Myc. i. t. 4. f. 12, var. y. 



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*** Umbelliferi. Gills very distant, broad, &>c. 



338. A. demissus Fr. Pileus 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) broad, fus- 

 cous-rufescent, somewhat membranaceous, convex then expanded, 

 obtuse, at length umbilicate, striate when moist, even and smooth 

 when dry. Stem scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, somewhat carti- 

 laginous, but stuffed, equal, even, smooth, shining, liver-rufescent. 

 Gills adnate, somewhat decurrent, very broad behind, somewhat 

 triangular, distant, distinct, becoming purple. 



Pileus obsoletely pruinose when dry. It has the habit and many of the 

 characters of A. laccatus. 



In waste places. Rare. Oct. 



A. rnfulus B. & Br. Margin of pileus crenulate. Stem flexuous. Gills 

 rather thick, forked, interstices veiny. Spores oblong, oblique. B. & Br. 

 Name demissus, drooping. Bent to one side. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 143. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 1 60. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 198. C. Illust. PL 250. A. rufulus B. 6-= 

 Br. n. 325. Berk. Out. p. 132. C. Hbk. ?i. 221. 



339. A. hepaticus Batsch. Pileus 1-4 cent. (}4-i)4 in.) 

 broad, rufous flesh-colour when moist, when dry slightly tawny 

 and tan, coriaceo-membranaceous, umbilicato-convex then infundi- 

 buliform, sometimes undulato-lobed, even, smooth, somewhat 

 shining when dry ; flesh fibrous. Stem about 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 

 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, very tough, equal, but in becoming 

 compressed it is broader and dilated at the apex, fuscous-flesh- 

 colour, commonly naked, rarely white-pruinate. Gills deeply de- 

 current, distant, remarkably connected by veins, narrow, linear, 

 whitish, becoming pale (not flesh-colour), sometimes crisped. 



Very tough, pliant. Often in company with A. pyxidatus, to which it is 

 very similar, but distinct in its somewhat coriaceous nature. 



On lawns, &c. Rare. 



Approaching A. ^lmbell^ferus. M.J.B. Spores 5-8 x 2-4 mk. B. Name 

 ^Trap, liver. From its liver colour. Batsch f. 211. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 182. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 160. Berk. Out. p. 131. C. Hbk. n. 215. Illust. PI. 250. 



