ENTOLOMA. 279 



0-4 lines thick, sometimes more, equal, round, fragile, longi- 

 tudinally fibrillose, grey, powdery at the apex; spores sui)- 

 globose, nodulose, 9-10 jx diam. 



Agaricus clypeatus, Linn., Succ. no. 1216; Cke., PIdbk., 

 p. 124; Cke., Illustr., pi. 319 (called by mistake Ent. 

 chjpeus). 



On the ground among grass, &c., appearing in the spring. 



Large, gregarious, lurid and unattractive when growing, 

 grey and rather shiny when dry, virgate and spotted. 

 (Fries.) 



Entoloma nigrocinnamomeum. Kalchbr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, tough, convex then flat- 

 tened and depressed round the somewhat prominent umbo, 

 margin rather incurved, sometimes splitting, even, smooth, 

 rather silky and shining, umber-brown, becoming blackish ; 

 gills adnexed, rounded behind, soon seceding from the stem, 

 3-4 lines broad, rather distant, reddish cinnamon ; stem about 

 2J in. long, 4 lines thick, tibrillose, usually twisted, grej'-ish 

 then tinged reddish, distinctly hollow; spores subglobose, 

 coarsely war ted, 8-9 /a diameter. 



Agaricus {Entoloma) nigrocinnamomeuSy Kalchbr., Icon. 

 Hung., t. xi. f. 1 ; Cke., Illustr,, pi. 1153. 



In pastures, &c. 



Allied to Entoloma clypeatiim, but distinguished by the 

 darker colour of the pileus, the distinctly hollow stem, and 

 the entire margin of the gills. Smell of new meal. 



Entoloma rhodopolium. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-5 in. across, flesh thin, when young campanulate 

 then expanded, somewhat umbonate or gibbous, at length 

 almost plane or sometimes depressed, fibrillose when young, 

 glabrous when adult, hygrophanous, when moist, brown, 

 (w^hen young), or livid (when old), becoming pale, dingy 

 pale livid-ochre when dry, silky-shining, margin at first 

 incurved and undulate in large specimens ; flesh white ; 

 gills adnate, seceding, somewhat sinuate, rather distant, 

 2-^4 lines broad, white then rosy ; stem hollow, 2-4 in. long, 

 3-5 lines thick, equal in small specimens, attenuated upwards 

 in large specimens, apex with white meal, rest glabrous, 

 minutely striate, white. 



