IXOCYBE. 185 



** LACERI. 



Inocybe pyriodora. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 across, disc fleshy, the remainder thin, ovate 

 then campanulate, obtuse, disc very scaly, the rest everywhere 

 torn into fibrils, smoky or ochraceo-pallid, reddish when 

 young ; margin often incurved and wavy ; flesh becoming 

 reddish ; gills at first adnate, then somewhat emarginate, 

 crowded, thin, linear, often crisped, at first whitish tlien 

 brownish, margin whitish; stem 3-6 in. long, ^-1 in. thick, 

 almost equal, or attenuated at the base, often curved, ex- 

 ternally very fibrillose, pallid, apex powdered with white 

 meal, solid, internally fibrous and soft, reddish ; fragile ; 

 spores pip-shaped, smooth, 10 X 6 /x. 



Agaricus (Inocyhe) pyriodorns, Pers., Syn., p. 300 ; Cke.^ 

 Hdbk., p. 152 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 472. 



In woods. 



Smell pleasant, resembling pears or violets. Pi 1 eus fuscous, 

 then pallid ochraceous, fiesh with a red tinge. (Fries.) 



Pileus 1^-3 in. broad, broadly and strongly umbonate, the 

 margin at length a little turned up, fibriiloso-squamulose ; 

 fleshy, pallid umber. Gills aduexed, ventricose, pale. Stem 

 2-3 in. high, 4 lines thick (solid in my specimens and in 

 Bulliard's figure), fibrillose, white, when bruised somewhat 

 of the same hue as the pileus. Yeil very fugacious. Odour 

 penetrating, like that of rotten pears or Hyacinthus racemosus*. 

 (Berk.) 



Inocybe incarnata. Bres. 

 Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, convex, campanu- 

 lated, then expanded and gibbous or broadly umbonate, 

 fibrillose then squamulose, margin fimbriate, yellowish theD 

 rufescent or tinged with fiesh-colour ; stem solid, about 2 in. 

 long, 4—5 lines thick, attenuated and somewhat rooting at 

 the base, rather fibrillose, rosy fiesh-colour, white and mealy 

 at the apex ; flesh of the pileus white, becoming deep red 

 when broken ; gills sinuate, adnexed, crowded, broad, rather 

 fringed at the margin ; whitish then gre3'ish-cinnamon, at 

 length spotted with red, or wholly rufescent ; spores elliptic- 

 ovate, 10 X /x. 



