PRATELLI. 337 



In woods, on the ground. Coed Coch, 1881. Oct. Psathyni. 



Spores 10-13 mk. B. Ib^ Br. Name — gossipiinn, cotton. F>om its being 

 downy or cottony. Bull. t. 425./. 2 (large). Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 309. Monogr. 

 i. p. 443. Berk. Out. p. 174. B. 6= Br. n. 1953. C. Hbk. ?i. 431. Ilhcst. 

 PI. 612. A. Bolt. t. 71./. I. 



757. A. noli-tangere Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) or less broad, 

 when moist, pallid umber in larger specimens, dark fuscous in 

 smaller, becoming pale when dry, very hygrophanous, mem- 

 branaceous, campanulate then expanded, obtuse, smooth with 

 exception of separating squanmles, striate throughout, becoming 

 even when dry. Stem about 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 thick, fistulose, equal, somewhat naked, even at the apex. Gills 

 adnate, broad, plane, sometimes pallid, somewhat dark fuscous. 



Gregarious, very fragile. Stem often curved, becoming fuscous, darker 

 towards the base. A universal veil covering the young plant has not been 

 observed in this species, only white, Jloccose squa mules routid the margin of the 

 pileus. The larger form on oak-chips, the smaller on damp shady ground. 



Among moss, &c. Sibbertoft, 1881. Sept. 



Spores 13 mk., more elongated than \n A . gossypinus , B. cf Br. Name — 

 touch-me-not. From its very fragile nature. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 443. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 309. Icon. t. 138. /. 3. B. cf Br. 7t. 1954. C. Illust. PL 612. B. 

 A. xylophilus Soiv. t. 167, but the white scales are awanting. 



758. A. microrhizus Lasch. — Pileus ochraceous or rufous- 

 brown, becoming pale, membranaceous, campanulate, even, dry, 

 shining with atoms, at the first yellow-pilose. Stem short, thin, 

 rooted, silky, whitish. Gills adnexed, crowded, narrow, pallid 

 then becoming black-brown. 



Gregarious, fragile. At the first it is everywhere flocculose and somevvhat 

 furnished with a cortina. The spores are fuscous or black according to the 

 ground on which they are deposited. 



On the naked soil. Sibbertoft, 188 1. Sept. 



Varying in size from a few lines to i^ in., when it approaches the finer 

 forms oi A. gossypinus, B. of Br. Name — ixLKpog, small; pt'^a, a root. With 

 short root. Lasch n. 468. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 309. B. of Br. n. 1955. C. 

 niust PI. 596. A. 



759. A. urticsecola B. & Br.— Pileus 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, 

 white, campanulate, flocculent; margin at length straight, striate. 

 Stem short, fistulose, slender, attenuated upwards, flocculent, 

 white. Gills ventricose in front, attenuated behind, adnexed, at 

 first white, then of a rich chocolate. 



Stem springing inmiediately from the matrix. AlHcd to .1. painatus. 



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