200 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Amongst grass in woods, &c. 



Gregarious, smell weak ; more slender tlian I. sindonia ; 

 known from I. scahellus by the white or lilac, not brownish 

 and squamulose pileus. 



Pileus J-1 in. broad, umbonate, at length subinverted, 

 white, lilac, brownish, yellowish, &c., satiny, often rimose. 

 Gills adnate or adnexed, ventricose, earthy, not cinnamon, 

 the margin white, subdentate. Stem 1-3 in. high, 1-2 lines 

 thick, flexuous, equal or subbulbous, firm, very minutely 

 farinaceous above, solid, but the inner substance less compact. 

 Odour strong and disagreeable. (Berk.) 



Inocybe scabella. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, conical then expanded, umbonate, 

 silky-fibrillose, at length becoming torn into squamules 

 except the umbo, brownish, rufous-brown, sometimes dingy 

 ochraceous, flesh dingy ; gills adnexed, somewhat ventricose, 

 but at times narrow, more or less crowded, dingy at first 

 then brownish ; stem stuffed, thin, 1^ in. long, J-lJ line 

 thick, equal, straight or flexuous, glabrous, rufous or pallid, 

 apex obsoletely pruinose; veil not evident; spores irregular, 

 nodulose, 10 x 7 /x. 



Agaricus (^Inocyhe^ scahellus, Fries, Epicr., p. 127 (not of 

 Alb. & Schw.) ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 159. 



Grassy places in woods, &c. 



A very variable, but quite distinct species. Stature of 

 I. geo])hijlla but more slender, inodorous, and brown or 

 rufescent, colour of pileus and stem different. 



Inocybe subrimosa. Mass. 

 Pileus about 1 in. across, conico-campanulate then ex- 

 panded, with a prominent conical umbo, margin often 

 undulate, even, glabrous, the cuticle becoming broken up 

 into longitudinal fibrils, then cracked, bay or pale rusty- 

 ochraceous ; gills very much attenuated btshind, free or 

 slightly adnexed, rather ventricose, white then pale dingy- 

 tan (colour of old wash-leather), at length brownish ; basidia 

 clavate, 30-42 x 1-1 /x; cystidia fusoid, apex at first minutely 

 spiny, 65-95 x 20 /x ; spores subglobose, unequally stellately 

 spiny, tinged yellow, 13-14 x 10-11 /x ; or 10-12 /x diam. ; 

 stem about 2 in. long, l-J line thick, solid, equal, round, 



