HYPORHODII. 197 



Inodorous, The disc is darker as in Leptonice. The gills are reddish with Entoloma. 

 the spores (never becoming purple). 



In old pasture. Glamis, 1874. Oct. 



Name — resiitus, ripped open, unstitched. From its longitudinally fibril- 

 lose appearance. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 273. Hym. Eur. p. 193. Icon. t. 92. 

 f. 2. B. 6^ Br. ti. 1414. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 243. C. Illust. PL 318. a. 



432. A. griseo-cyaneus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, 

 grey or iiiclijiing to lilac, not hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, cain- 

 pannlate the?! convex, obtuse, never depressed, wholly fioccoso- 

 scaly. Stem 4 cent, {lyi in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, in 

 no wise cartilaginous, but wholly fibrous, hollow, externally flo c- 

 coso-Jibrillose, pallid theji becoming azure-blue, sometimes wholly 

 white. Gills adfiexed, separating-free, ventricose, whitish then 

 flesh-colour. 



White when young. In habit and colours it approaches the Lepto?iicB and 

 often grows along with these, but it is wholly soft, and sufficiently distinct 

 from its fibrous stem. 



In pastures and open woods. Rare. Oct. 



Spores irregular, full of angles, 8-10 mk. K. Name — griseus, grey ; cyaneus, 

 dark blue. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 274. Hym. Eur. p. 193. Icoji. t. 94. f. i. 

 B. 6^ Br. n. 11 13. C. Hbk. n. 257. Illust. PI. 318. b. S. Mycol. Scot. ?i. 

 244. 



433. A. sericellus Fn— Pileus 12 mm. (X in.) or little more 

 broad, white or becoming yellow-white, somewhat fleshy, convex 

 the?i pla?ie, obtuse, and at length depressed, often unequal, dry, 

 even, silky, at length becoming smooth, but often squamulose, 

 the margin, which is at the first inflexed, floccose ; flesh thin, 

 white, continuous. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 thick, soDiewhat Jistitlose, waxy r3.th.er than fibrous, equal, fibril- 

 lose, white then becoming pale, at length somewhat polished, 

 smooth. Gills at first ad7iate, even decurrent with a tooth, then 

 separating and somewhat emarginate, very broad, slightly dis- 

 tant, white then flesh-colour. 



Gregarious, small, thin, inodorous, changeable in its characters, but not in 

 its habit. Most distinct and not allied to any other. A. sericeus Pers. 

 (not Bull.) differs in its larger stature, its somewhat bulbous stem, its campan- 

 ulate pileus, and crowded gills. 



In woods, and grassy banks. Frequent. July-Oct. 



According to Berkeley the stem is never fistulose, but I have found it some- 

 what fistulose as described by Fries. Spores irregular, full of angles, hyaline, 

 8-10 or lo-ii X 8 nik. A'. Name— j^r/av^^, silky. Slightly silky. Fr. Monogr. 

 i, p. 274. Hym. Eur. p. 194. Berk. Out. p. 144. C. Hbk. n. 258. Illust. 

 PL 307. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 245, Quel. t. 5./. 5. A. inodorus Bull. t. 524. 

 /. 2. 



