ENTOLOMA. 275 



Agaricus (Entolomd) Saundersiiy Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 192; 

 Cke., Ildbk., p. 122 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 306. 



Agaricus majalis, Saund. and Smith, t. 40. 



Growing on the ground in patches. 



Ag. majalis differs from this, especially in the slender 

 stature, fistulose stem, membranaceous pileus, which is cam- 

 panulate on opening, and cinnamon, and in the gills being 

 free, crowded, and crenate. (Cooke.) 



Entoloma fertilis. Berk. 



Pileus 4-6 in. across, flesh white, thick at the disc be- 

 coming very thin towards the margin, convex then 2^1ane, 

 obtuse, dry, pulverulently scaly, pallid reddish or very pale 

 reddish-ochre, palest at the margin ; gills slightly adnexed, 

 rounded behind, rather close, 3-4 lines broad, pale flesh- 

 colour; stem 4-5 in. long, 1 in. and more thick, almost equal, 

 except the somewhat bulbous base, fibrillose and somewhat 

 squamulose, whitish, solid. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) fertilis. Berk., Outl., p. 142 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 316. 



On the ground in woods. 



Smell resembling new meal. The largest of our sjoecies 

 of Entoloma; distinguished from E. lividus by the ^^ile^s 

 being broken up into pulverulent squamules. 



Subgregarious. Pileus 4^ in. broad, expanded, obtuse, some- 

 what lobed, pulverulento-squamulose, fleshy, dry, pinkish- 

 buff, with sometimes a tinge of yellow ; gills rose-coloured, 

 adnexed, nearly free; sporules rose-coloured; stem 2 ^-3 J in. 

 high, ^-1 in. thick, stuffed, firm, fibrillose, subsquamulose, 

 Bubcompressed, somewhat bulbous at the base, paler than 

 the pileus. Odour like that of fresh meal. (Berk.) 



Entoloma jubatum. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-3 in. across, campanulate then expanded, um- 

 bonate, cuticle fibrillose or floccosely-squamulose, mouse- 

 colour, not hygrophanous ; flesh thin, similar in colour to 

 the pileus, easily splitting ; gills slightly adnexed, somewhat 

 emarginate, readily separating from the stem, crowded, 

 ventricose, at first dark smoke-colour (not greyish-brown) 

 then pretty smoky-purple ; stem fleshy, fibrous, rigid, fragile, 

 hollow, 2-3 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, equal, brownish, covered 



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