288 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



broad, pale salmon-coloiir; stem 1-lf in. long, 2 lines thick, 

 rigid, slightly striate, white, solid; spores subglobose, echinn- 

 late, 5-6 fx diameter. 



Agarkus nanus, Persoon, Syn., p. 357 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 116; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 305a. 



On stumps, fallen sticks, &-c. 



Stem solid, 1 in. long, 1-2 lines tliick, equal or slightly 

 attenuated from the base, and a little dilated at the very 

 apex, slightly striate, whitish. Flesh of pileus thin but 

 rather tough, not at all campanulate, but convex then ex- 

 panded and flattened, obtuse, constant in shape, 1 in. broad, 

 dry, umber, or the disc darker, usually with prominent 

 radiating umber-coloured ridges or veins, pileus powdered 

 with brown meal. Stem and gills sometimes yellowish. 

 (Fries.) 



Var. lutescenSj Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 187; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 305b ; size of typical form, but stem and gills, or former 

 only, yellowish. 



Yar. major, Cke., Illustr., pi. 305c ; larger than the 

 typical form, pileus even, greyish. 



All the forms are distinguished from P. cervinus and it» 

 varieties by the subglobose warted spores. 



Pluteus spilopus. B. & Br. 



Pileus 1-1^ in. across, convex then expanded, subumbonato, 

 often with a depression round the umbo, radiately rugnlose, 

 brown or dark fawn-colour ; flesh thick at the disc, remainder 

 thin, white ; gills free, 2 lines broad, pale salmon-colour -. 

 stem 1^-2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, whitish or faintly 

 tinged with fawn-colour and furnished with scattered black 

 points, solid, incurved; spores subglobose, smooth, 7-8 //, 

 diameter. 



Agaricus (pluteus) spUojms, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 

 1856; Cke., Illustr., pL 325; Cke., Hdbk., p. 117. 



On stumps. 



Closely allied to both Pluteus nanus and P. cervinus ; dis- 

 tinguished by the globose smooth spores, and the black spf>ts 

 on the stem. 



Pluteus semibulosus. Lasch. 

 Pileus about ^ in. across, flesh thin, hemispherical, obtuse, 



