208 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



1 line thick, clavato-bulbous at the base, white, hollow ; 

 spores elliptical, salmon-colour, 15-16 X 8-10 /x. 



Bolhitius tenevy Berk., Oiitl., p. 183; t. 12, f. 2; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 235 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. GOl. 



Amongst grass. 



Very slender. Distinguished by the smooth, even, 

 whitish conical pileus and the bulbous base of the stem. 



PLUTEOLUS. Fr. (fig. 7, p. 3.) 



Pileus conical or campanulate then expanded, flesh thin ; 

 viscid, margin at fir.>t straight and adpressed to the stem ; 

 gills rounded behind and free from the stem; stem central, 

 its substance differentiated from the flesh of the pileus ; 

 spores ferruginous or saffron-colour. 



Pluteolus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 266 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 182. 



Growing on wood. The present genus corresponds mor- 

 phologically to Pluteus in the Mhodosporae. 



Pluteolus reticulatus. Fr. (fig. 7, p. 3.) 



Pileus 1-lJ in. across, flesh thin, campanulate, becoming 

 plane, viscid, with raised, anastomosing veins forming a 

 vague network, margin striate, greyish or pale lilac ; gills 

 free, ventricose, crowded, Ih line broad, rusty-saffron colour ; 

 stem li^-2 in. long, 1^^ line thick, slightly incrassated at the 

 base, fragile, fibrillose, white, hollow; spores ferruginous in 

 the mass, elliptical, smooth, 7 x 4 /x. 



A(jaricus (Pluteolus) reticulatus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p, 266 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 183; Cke., Illustr., pi. 495. 



On dead wood. 



Closely resembling Pluteus in habit and structure, but 

 with ferruginous spores. 



Pluteolus aleuriatus. Fr. 



Pileus about § in. across, thin, conico-convex then flat- 

 tened, viscid, striate, not wrinkled, greyish or pink ; gills 

 free, ventricose, ochraceous-saffron ; stem li-2 in. long, about 

 1 line thick, white, pulverulent, often incurved, hollow. 



Agaricus (^Pluteolus) aleuriatus^ Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 266 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 183. 



