196 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Tnocybe destricta. Fr. 



Pileiis l2-2^r in. across, flesli thin, white; campannlato- 

 convex then expanded, iimbonate, at length depressed 

 round the brownish umbo, cracked, fibrillose, then torn into 

 K[uamules, pallid then rufescent; gills uncinately adnate, 

 crowded, thin, 2 lines broad, white then greyish-cinnamon; 

 stem solid, soft, about 2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, almost 

 equal, glabrous, fibrillosely striate, white with a red tinge, 

 apex slightly mealy ; spores elliptical, smooth, 8 x 4 /x. 



Agaricus {Inocyhe) destridus, Fries, Epicr., p. 172; Cooke,. 

 Ildbk., p. 157 ; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 387. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Smell unpleasant. Distinguished from I. rimosa by the 

 adnexed gills and the stem becoming reddish with age. 

 I. aster ospora is known from the present species by the nodu- 

 lose, irregular spores. 



Inocybe perbrevis. Weinm. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, rather fleshy, convex, obtusely 

 imibonate, then expanded and often depressed round the 

 umbo, fibrosely squamulose or silkj^ rufous-brown then 

 ])aler and yellowish, margin somewhat striate and at length 

 splitting; gills adnexed with a slight decurrent tooth, rather 

 distant, 1^ line broad, brownish-white then tan-colour; stem 

 not more than 1 in. long, 2 lines thick at the apex, slightly 

 attenuated towards the base, pallid, whitish fibrillose, 

 stuffed ; spores elliptical, smooth, 10-12 x o fx. 



Agaricus perhrevis, Weinm, p. 185; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 519; 

 Cooke. Hdbk., p. 157. 



In woods. 



Small, but rather firm, reddish-brown then becoming 

 yellowish ; stem paler, apex mealy, attenuated downwards. 

 Hesembling in habit and colour some of the small species of 

 Ladarius. 



Inocybe descissa. Fr. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh thin except at the disc, 

 conical then campanulatus, fibrillose, becoming radiately 

 tracked and splitting when expanded, whitish or pallid 

 yellow-brown, margin often striate ; gills almost free, 

 <;rowded, thin, pallid then brownish; stem 1-1^ in. long. 



