GALERA. 145 



even, pale, and rather atomate when dry ; gills adnate, 

 crowded, ascending, rather broad, cinnamon ; stem 3-4 in. 

 long, 1-lJ line thick, fragile, equal or slightly thinner up- 

 wards, straight, rather shining, striate above, colours like 

 the pileus ; spores 1 2-1 3 X 7 ^u. 



Agaricus tener, Schaeff., t. 70, f. 6-8 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 183 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 461. 



Amongst grass. Size very variable, all one colour when 

 moist ; the pileus is slightly striate when moist ; even and 

 pale, as is also the stem when dry. Differs from G, later itia 

 in the coloured stem and broad gills. 



Var. pillosella, Pers. Pileus and stem covered with 

 short, scattered pubescence when moist. 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 461. 



Galera siliginea. Fr. 



Pileus about I in. across, globosely campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, unequal, even, greyish, not becoming pale; gills 

 adnate, narrow, rather crowded, ochraceous ; stem rather 

 wavy, equal, pallid, somewhat pruinose. 



Agaricus (Galera) siligineus, Fries, Obs., ii. p. 168 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 876 (excl. fig. quoted). 



Under ferns, &c., in damp shady places. Stem fistulose, 

 2-3 in. long, 1 line thick, cylindrical, rather firm, yellow, 

 not striate nor villose, but slightly powdered everywhere 

 with white meal, stem sometimes fragile. Pileus membrana- 

 ceous, campanulate then expanded and somewhat convex, 

 striate, glabrous, dry, rather fragile; 3-4 lines high and 

 broad, yellowish-ochre. Flesh very thin, coloured like the 

 pileus. Gills rounded, adnexed, distinct, not distant, 

 watery yellow. (Fries.) 



The above is Fries' description in Obs., ii. p. 168, which 

 •does not quite agree with his later one in Hym. Eur., p. 267, 

 where he says : Separated from all others by the pallid stem, 

 not straight, and often attenuate at the base, pileus some- 

 what greyish, unusually convex, margin often flexuous. 



Galera campanulata. Mass. 



Pileus J-f in. broad and high, persistently campanulate, 

 subacute, even, hygrophanous, deep cinnamon when moist, 

 islightly rugulose, almost white, and atomate when dry; 



VOL. II. L 



