HEBELOMA. 175 



In pine woods. 

 Gregarious; variable. 



Var. minor, Cke., Illustr., pi. 412; Cke., Hdbk., p. 163. 

 Smaller than the typical form. 



Hebeloma sub coll aria turn. B. & Br. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, convex, then more or less ex- 

 panded, rather fleshy, slightly glutinous, the floccose veil 

 soon disappearing, pale ochraceous-tan, centre darker; gills 

 very slightly rounded behind, broadly adnate, soon sepa- 

 rating from the stem and connected behind by a collar-like 

 structure, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, pale tan-colour, 

 margin whitish; stem about 2 in. long, 2 lines thick, often 

 flexuose, pale, brownish towards the base, pulverulent, 

 stuffed then hollow; spores elliptical, 12-13 x <-> /x. 



Agaricus {Hebeloma) suhcollariatus, B. & Br., Ann. Kat. 

 Hist., n. 1942 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 163 ; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 506. 



On naked soil. 



** DENUDATI. 



Hebeloma sinapizans. Fr. 



Pileus 3-6 in. across, fleshy, compact, convex, then plane, 

 very obtuse, for the most part wavy, and. often excentric, 

 even, glabrous, slightly viscid when moist, either every- 

 where tan-colour, or the disc yellowish ; flesh white ; gills 

 deeply emarginate, 3-5 lines broad, crowded, fragile, cinna- 

 mon-tan, always dry and not spotted, never exuding drops of 

 water; stem stout, rigid, imperfectly solid, 3-5 in. long, 

 1 in. thick, equal or fusiformly rooting, white, fibrillosely 

 striate, apex with white squamules ; y spores elliptical, 

 12 X 7 /x. 



Agaricus (Hehelomay sinapizans, Fries, Epicr., p. 180 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 163 ; Cke., Hlustr., pi. 413. 



In woods. 



The largest species in the present genus, remarkably re- 

 sembling H. sinuosum, but sharply separated by the strong, 

 radishy smell, and the almost entire absence of a veiL 

 (Fries.) 



