164 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



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corjAoidei. Growing in ivoods and damp uncultivated- 

 places. 



Naucoria tenax. Fr. 



Pileus i-1 in. across, flesh rather thick, campanulate then 

 expanded, viscid, hygrophanons, glabrous, even, colour 

 between pale cinnamon and olive, or brownish-yellow, be- 

 coming pale when dry, hygrophanous ; gills adnate, rather 

 distant, brownish-white, becoming pale ferruginous, stem 

 1-2 in. long, about 1 line thick, stuffed then hollow, equal, 

 adprtssedly fibrillose, yellowish, becoming tinged fuscous or 

 olive, spores elliptical, 8 X 5 /x. 



Agariciis {Naucoria^ tenax, Fries, Epicr., p. 198 ; Cke^, 

 Hdbk., p. 179; Cke., Illustr., pi. 617b. 



Amongst grass, and on sticks. 



Stem, depending on locality, sometimes ferruginous, at 

 others olivaceous. Pileus sometimes rugulose, usually cinna- 

 mon when moist, margin w^ateiy-yellow or with a greenish 

 tinge, ochraceous when dr}'. Gills pallid brownish-olive, 

 becoming ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Naucoria myosotis. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then expanded, subumbonate, 

 covered with a viscid pellicle, olive or brownish-green, 

 becoming pale and yellowish, disc darker; gills adnato- 

 decurrent, rather distant, at length rusty-brown, margin 

 serrulate, white ; stem 3-6 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal 

 sometimes flexuous, rather firm, hollow, squamulose, or with 

 dark fibrils, pallid, becoming brownish, apex powdered with 

 white meal; spores elliptical, 11-12 x 6 //. 



Agaricus (Naucoria) myosotis, Fries, Epicr., p. 198; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 180; Cke., Illustr., pi. 494. 



In damp localities, swamps, amongst sphagnum, &c. 



Pileus hygrophanous, viscid w^hen moist, minutely rugulose, 

 dark honey-yellow, disc darker, silky, veil remaining in tufts 

 at the margin ; gills rather distant, ventricose, with a de- 

 current tooth, margin minutely serrulate, paler, at first pale 

 yellow with a pink tinge, then ferruginous. Stem long, 

 hollow, striate, mealy at the apex, whitish then rufous, with 

 silky, fibrillose scales and evanescent fibrillose ring. 



