126 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



II. PHAEOTI. 



Tubaria crobula. Fr. 



Pileus i-| in. across, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, 

 obtuse, slightly viscid, not striate, covered at first with 

 white, floccose scales, then naked and hoaiy-tan ; gills 

 slightly deciirrent, l~lh line broad, crowded, bro^^mish- 

 ferruginons ; stem |-1 J in. long, 1-1 i line thick, often in- 

 curved or flexuous, brownish, covered with white, floccose 

 scales, hollow ; spores elliptical, brown-rust colour, 10 X 6 /;t. 



Agaricus crohulus, Fr., Epicr., p. 299; Cke., Hdbk., p. 188; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 496b. 



Amongst sticks, &c. 



Distinguished from Tiibaria inquilina by its larger size, 

 and by the moderately persistent ring. 



Tubaria inquilina. Fr. 



Pileus i-f in. across, membranaceons, convex then plane, 

 at length more or less umbonate, hygrophanous, glabrous, 

 slightly viscid, striate when moist, livid brown, tawny or 

 hoary-tan when dry ; gills slightly decurrent, very broad 

 behind, triangular, rather distant, brownish-tan, then nmber ; 

 stem about 1 in. long, scarcely 1 line thick, thinner towards 

 the base, tough, bay, covered at first with white fibrils, and 

 with white down at the base, hollow, often flexuous ; spores 

 elliptical, dusky ferruginous, 8x4^. 



Agaricus inquilinus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 264; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 189 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 497. 



On twigs, chips, &c. 



Closely allied to Tubaria crohulus, smaller, pileus striate 

 when moist, glabrous from the first, and stem soon glabrous 

 are the jorincipal distinctive features. 



Var. ecbolus^ Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 275. 



Stem rooting, equal ; gills crowded, ferruginous. 



On roots of grasses. 



FLAMMULA. Fries, (fig. 15, p. 3.) 



Pileus fleshy, margin at first involute ; stem central, flesh 

 fibrous, not mealy at the apex ; gills decurrent, or adnate 



