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flexuous, smooth, tough, for the most part fuscous-black, of the Naucoria. 

 same colour as the pileus at the apex. Gills adfixed, separating- 

 free, ascending, ventricose, crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) and more 

 broad, honey-colour or cinnamon-clay. 



Almost inodorous. It occurs smaller and more elegant, with the pileus dark 

 tawny-cinnamon, the stem straight, and the gills less crowded. It approaches 

 A. cucumis. 



In pine woods, c. Hereford, 1884. 



Name cidaris, an ornament, tiara. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 367. Hym. Eur. p. 

 255. Icon. t. 123. /. 2 var. minor. Grevillea, vol. xii. /. 98. C. lllust. PL 

 451- 



618. A. cucumis Pers. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (\-\Yz in.) broad, 

 when moist bay-brown-fuscous, becoming somewhat purple and 

 paler towards the margin, when dry fawn or tan colour, slightly 

 fleshy, broadly campanulate, obtuse, smooth, even. Stem 2.5-5 

 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 3 mm. (i^ li n -) thick, firm, tense and straight, 

 attenuated downwards, stuffed, hollow thickened and somewhat 

 pruinose upwards, date-brown or fuscous-blackish, paler at the 

 apex. Veil none. Gills adnexed, very ventricose, crowded, dis- 

 tinct, pallid then somewhat saffron-yellow. 



Spores ferruginous. It varies smaller, with the pileus somewhat membran- 

 aceous, papillate, slightly striate when moist. Odour of encumber. 



On the ground in fir woods, and on sawdust. Frequent. Sept.- 

 Nov. 



See remarks under A. pisciodorus. A. cucumis in certain stages smells 

 strongly of rotten fish. Spores 8x3 mk. W.P. ; pruniform, nucleate, 10 mk. 

 Q. Name cucumis, cucumber. Of the odour. Pers. Syn. p. 310. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. /. 368. Hym. Eur. p. 255. Berk. Out. p. 159. C. Hbk. n. 358. 

 lllust. PI. 452. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 332. A. fuscipes Soi*.'. t. 344. 



619. A. anguineus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more broad, 

 pale yellowish or rufous, somewhat tan when dry, slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate then convex, gibbous, even, smooth, but when 

 young covered near tlie margin with a superficial silky zone from 

 the fibrils of the veil. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, and more at the thickened base, somewhat hollow, 

 somewhat flexuous, densely wJiite-fibrillose, hence marked with 

 silky spots when dry, bay-brown. Gills somewhat free, ascend- 

 ing into the top of the cone, crowded, somewhat linear, at first 

 pallid-isabelline, then ferruginous. 



Manifestly allied to A. cucumis, but larger, more robust, and remarkable 

 especially for the traces of the veil. 



On the ground. West Lynn, &c. Nov. 



