FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



OCHROSPORAE. 



The colour of the spores ranges in the various genera from 

 pale dingy ochraceous, through bright ochre, to rusty-orange 

 and ferruginous. In form the spores are either elliptical and 

 symmetrical ; elliptical, but oblique or pip-shaped, and either 

 smooth or minutely rough or granular. In some species 

 of Inocyhe the spores are irregularly globose and coarsel}^ 

 nodulose or warted. 



The simplest forms are either resupinate, or sessile and 

 attached by the margin ; and from this condition there is 

 a sequence through the central-stemmed forms, having 

 decurrent, adnate, adnexed, and free gills respectively. In 

 Pholiota there is a distinct interwoven ring on the stem, and 

 in the large genus Cortinarius the secondary veil consists of 

 fine cobweb-like hyphae from the first, which form a very 

 imperfect zone round the stem, and also frequently hang in 

 shreds from the margin of the pileus. 



ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA. 



A. Gills separating spontaneously or very easily from the 

 flesh of the pileus. 



Paxillus. — Margin of pileus persistently involute. 



B. Gills not separating spontaneously nor easily from the 

 flesh of the pileus. 



I Universal veil cobweb-like, distinct from the cuticle of 

 the pileus. 



VOL. II. B 



