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smooth, dark azure-bhie or black-hlue. Gills annexed, very broad Leptonia. 

 behind, plane, crowded, whitish, edge of the same colour. 



Variable. Commonly solitary. The form in which the pileus is variegated 

 with darker, here and there concentric scales is larger. 



Around beech-trunks. Downton, 1880. Autumn. 



I<i2ime—placidus, placid. Pleasing. Fr. Mo?iogr. i. p. 284. Hym. Eur. p. 

 201. Icon. t. 97. /.I. C. Illust. PL 330. 



454. A. lappula Fr.— Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-iK in.) broad, grey, 

 somewhat fleshy, hemispherical, convexo-plane, ujnbilicaie, with- 

 out striae, at the first flocculoso-soft, when full grown roughish 

 with short erect fibrils, which become black, and which are crowded 

 towards the centre (rendering it darker), hence the grey pileus 

 appears black-dotted. Stem 4-5 cent. (i>^-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. 

 (1-2 lin.) thick, very fistidose, equal, moderately tough, under a 

 lens striate and black-dotted upwa7'ds, fuscous-lilac or dark purple, 

 white-villous at the base. Gills at first adnate with a small tooth, 

 when full grown separating, plane, very broad (ovate in form), 

 crowded, distinct, quaternate, white-grey. 



Inodorous. 



Among beech-leaves. Forres. Autumn. 



Name — lappa, a bur. From the prickly pileus. Fr. Mo?iogr. i. p. 285. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 202. Icon. t. 97. f. 2. B. &f Br. ?i. 1225. ^. Mycol. Scot. n. 



254- 



455. A. lampropus Fr. — Pileus mouse- colour or steel-blue 

 then fuliginous-grey (changing colour but not hygrophanous), 

 somewhat fleshy, convex then expanded (not campanulate), obtuse 

 and at length depressed, when young rather even (never striate) 

 then more or less squamulose. Stem 2.5-4 cent. {i-i/4 in.) long, 

 rather thick, 4 mm. (2 lin.), fistulose, wholly cartilaginous, smooth, 

 even, 710 1 dotted, becoming azure-blue, commonly steel-blue-viola- 

 ceous. Gills adnate, readily separating, then free, ventricose, 

 whitish then slightly rose-colour. 



The pileus when fresh is opaque, continuous, neither umbilicate nor papil- 

 late. Very different from A. asprellus which may be easily taken for it ; in 

 A. asprellus the stem is slender, the membranaceous pileus hygrophanous, 

 striate when moist, the heterogeneous umbilicus darker, the gills grey. A. 

 glaucus Bull. t. 521 differs in habit, in the slender stem, the striate pileus, &c., 

 but it cannot be referred to any other. The colour is not glaucous. 



In pastures. Common. July-Nov. 



Spores irregular, 5-7 angled, 10-14x6-8 mk. B. Name — Ao/x7rpo5, shining ; 

 TTovs, foot. From the shining stem. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 285. hy7n. Eur. p. 

 202. Berk. Out. p. 146. C. Hbk. 71. 275. Illust. PL 331. 5. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 255. 



