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nmbonate, often wavj^, liygrophanous, smoky-p;rey, velvety 

 then squamulose ; gills alinosit free, 2 lines broad, trans- 

 versely ribbed, pale salmon-colonr, margin crenulate ; stem 

 1^-2 in. long, 2 lines thick, smoky-blue, often compressed, 

 base cottony, white ; spores elliptic-oblong, apiculate, coarsely 

 warted, 10-11 X 7-8 /i ; no cystidia. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) Wi/nnei, Beik. & Broome, Ann. Nat. 

 Hist., no. 13-J:2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 124; Cke., lUustr., pi. 329. 



In fir-woods. 



Described as having the odour of bugs. This character, 

 Mlong with the hollow stem, distinguishes the present species 

 from E. Thomsoni. 



Entoloma costatum. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh lather thin, greyish, convex, 

 bull ate, then almost plane, somewhat umbilicate, wavy, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, livid-biownish, shining when dry ; 

 gills almost free, 2-3 lines broad, with raised veins extending 

 from the base to the entire margin, somewhat undulating, 

 pallid ; stem about 2 in. long and 3-4 lines thick, deformed, 

 somewhat striate, grey, apex with white squamules, hollow. 



Agaricus (^Entoloma) costatus, Fries, Syst. Myc, p. 206 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 320a. 



In damp meadows, &c. 



Often densely caespitose, but not so every year. Fragile, 

 smell none. Somewhat resembling E. sericeum, but distin- 

 guished by its larger size, entire absence of suiell, and the 

 veined gills. 



Usually forming large tufts, crowded, very fragile, stem 

 generally deformed, hollow, 2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, often 

 compressed, slightly striate, grey, apex powdered with white 

 meal. Pileus fleshy, membranaceous, convexo-bullate, undu- 

 lato-deformed, at length almost plane, more or less umbili- 

 cate, 2-3 in. across, glabrous, livid-fuscous, paler when dry, 

 often blackish when old; margin at first incurved; flesh 

 thin, splitting, coloured like the pileus. Gills almost free, 

 very broad, with transverse elevated ribs or veins, undulated, 

 not serrated, pallid then flesh-colour. Allied to Entoloma 

 sericea, but inodorous. (Fries.) 



Entoloma sericeum. Fr. 

 Smell strong of mea'. Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh 



