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thick, equal or incrassated above, equal, furfuraceous, fistu- 

 lose ; ring appeudiculate ; gills pallid, adnate, plane, margin 

 white. 



Agaricus dispersus, Persoon, Myc. Eur., vol. iii. n. 268. 



On lawns amongst short grass. 



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Pileus persistently sqiiamulose. 



Naucoria erinacea. Fr. 



Pileus h-'i in. across, flesh thin, convex, umbilicate, rusty- 

 umber, scaly with erect, squarrose, tufts of fibrils, margin at 

 first involute and cortinate; gills adnate, rather crowded, 

 broadish, rusty-brown, margin quite entire ; stem about \ in. 

 long, not a line thick, equal, incurved, rusty-brown, hairy ; 

 spores variable, elli2:)tical, 9-15 x 6-9 /a. 



Agaricus (Naucoria) erinaceus^ Fries, Epicr., p. 201 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 181 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 480a. 



On dead branches. 



Small, dry, persistent as in Marasmius. Entirely rusty- 

 brown. Allied to N. separia, but known by the stem being 

 squamulose nearly or quite to the apex, and the gills having 

 the margin quite entire. 



Naucoria siparia. Fr. 



Pileus ^-f in. across, convex then obtuse, not umbilicate, 

 reddish-ferruginous, densely clothed with fasciculate tufts of 

 down resembling minute scales ; gills adnate, broad, rather 

 distant, coloured like the pileus, margin tiocculose; stem 

 about 1 in. long, slender, stuffed, equal ; peronate, squamulose 

 up to the ring, apex naked, glabrous, coloured like the pileus. 



Agaricus (Naucoria) siparius. Fries, Epicr., p. 201 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 181 ; Cke., Illustr., ^\. 480b. 



On fern stems, soil, &c. 



Allied to N. erinacea^ separated amongst other characters, 

 by the pileus not being umbilicate, and the flesh also thicker, 

 softer, and not dry. The floccoso-squamulose covering is the 

 universal veil, as in Lepiota granulosa. (Fries.) 



Naucoria conspersa. Pers. 

 Pileus about h in. across, fragile ; convex then plane, 

 nearly even, soon becoming broken up into scurfy squamules, 



