HYPORHODII. 189 



The stature is wholly that o( A. cervinus, but it differs in the villous-scaly p, 

 stem, in the pileus being lacunose, at the first villous and the margin fringed 

 ■with hairs, and in the edge of the gills being fringed-fuliginous or marginate. 

 But these differences gradually disappear, and there are many intermediate 

 forms. 



On dead wood. Rare. Sept. 



Spores 6-8x5 "^k. B. Name — umbrosiis, shady. Pers. Ic. descr. t. 2. f. 5. 

 Syti. p. 358. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 186. Monogr. i. p. 263. C. Hbk. n. 241. 

 Illust. PL 304. a. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 234. A. umbrinus Berk. Out. p. 141. 



411. A. salicinus Pers. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in), and more 

 broad, blaish-grey then cinereous, slightly fleshy, convex then 

 plane, somewhat umbonate, sinooth, but Jiocculoso-rugulose and 

 darker at the disc. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2 mm. (i 

 lin.) or a little more thick, sticffed, tqn2i\,/ibrillose, fragile, ivhite- 

 azure-blue, or sometimes becoming green. Gills free, rose- 

 colour. 



It approaches Leptonice in the darker and slightly wrinkled disc. 



In the interior of hollow willow. South Wooton. Sept. 



Name — salix, willow. Fr. Mo?togr. i. p. 264, Hym. Eur. p. 186. Grevil- 

 lea, vol. xiii. /. 48. 



412. A. hispidulus Fr. — Pileus 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) broad, 

 grey, slightly fleshy, C07ivex theft plane, obtuse, everywhere silky 

 or slightly pilose, even, dry, at length slightly striate at the mar- 

 gin. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 



fistulose, equal, curved-ascending, round, fragile, even, smooth, 

 silvery. Gills free, flesh-colour. 



The smallest of the Plutei, most clearly distinct from all the rest. 



On beech-stumps. Stapleton Park. 



Fries has found it growing also on mould in pots in hothouses. Name — 

 hispidus, hairy. Slightly hairy. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 264. Hym. Eur. p. 187. 

 Ico7i. t. 90. f. 2. C. Illust. PL 304. b. 



■^■^ Pileus pruinate with atoms, somewhat pulveruleiit. 



413. A. nanus Pers. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, nj?iber or 

 darker at the disc, from which veined radiating luuber W7'inkles 

 extend throughout the pileus which is fuliginous and sprinkled 

 with fuscous pulverulent sootiness, slightly fleshy, but toughish, 

 by no mea?is campanitlate, but convex then flattened, obtuse, well 

 formed, dry. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) thick, 

 solid, rigid, equal or slightly attenuated from the base and dilated 



