202 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Inocybe vatricosa. Fr. 



Pileus about ^ in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, 

 obtusely umbonate, even, glabrous, viscid when moist, 

 shining when dry, slightly silky near the margin, white; 

 gills broadly emarginate, adnexed, almost free, broad, white 

 then brownish ; stem about 1 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, equal, 

 ciirved and contorted, white, not fibrillose, but with white 

 down at the base, everywhere powdered with white meal, 

 hollow. 



Agaricus (Inocyhe) vatricosus, Fries, Epicr., p. 177; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 160; Cke., Illustr., pi. 403b. 



Damp naked places in pine woods, also on wood. 



A minute species, remarkable for the glabrous viscid disc 

 of the pileus, and the truly silky margin. With exactly the 

 habit of I. geojyhylla, but smaller. (Fries.) 



Inocybe Whitei. B. & Br. 



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

 disc, at first hemispherical, then convex, tawny, margin 

 whitish, at length expanded and wholly tawny, fibrillose, 

 slightly viscid ; veil white, fibrillose ; stem about Ih in. 

 long, Ih line thick, slightly thickened at the base, nearly 

 smooth, white, becoming brownish, solid; gills adnexed, 

 white at first then pallid ; spores obliquely elliptical, 

 smooth, pale yellow-brown, 9x4^; cystidia more or less 

 broadly clavate, tapering to a very thin pedicel, plentiful. 



Agaricus (^Inocyhe) Whitei, Berk. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1527; Cke., Illustr., ]A. 404a. 



On the ground in pine woods, &c. 



Stature that of I. geophylla, a very curious and beautiful 

 little species allied to I. vatricosa. (Berk. & Br.) Keadily 

 known by the viscid, tawny pileus. 



Inocybe tricholoma. A. & S. 



Pileus §-lJ in. across, plane, becoming more or less de- 

 pressed, sometimes irregular, rather viscid, whitish, margin 

 irregularly fringed with adpressed white fibrils ; gills de- 

 current, thin, pale brownish-tan ; stem l|-2 in. long, lJ-2 

 lines thick, white, squamulose upwards. 



Agaricus (Inocyhe) tricholoma, Alb. & Schw., Consp., p. 188; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 404b. 



