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Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, solid, equal, inocybe. 

 Jibrillose, at first furnished with a cortina, a little paler than the 

 pileus, not pidverident at the apex. Gills rounded-adnexed, some- 

 what separating, ventricose, fuscous grey t]ien becoming ferruginous. 



The whole plant is almost of one colour, but is distinguished from the rest 

 by its hygrophanous pileus. Odour not remarkable. 



On sandy ground in woods. Glamis, 1874, &c. Sept. -Oct. 



It is not confined to maritime districts, but is found in the native pine woods 

 in Scotland. Name — maritivius, pertaining to the sea. Found originally by 

 the sea-shore. Fr. Motiogr. i. p. 339. Hym. Eur. p. 229. B. (5r Br. n. 1525. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 288. C. Illust. PL 392. Fl. Dan. 1846. /. i ? 



536. A. lacerus Fr. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, mouse- 

 colour, becoming pale, becoming yellow when old, but not 

 hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, convex thejt expanded, obtuse or 

 obtusely umbonate, at first adpressedly fibrillose, then riniosely 

 scaly and squarrose. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 2-4 mm. 

 (1-2 lin.) thick, stuffed, thin, tough, equal or attenuated at the 

 base, paler than the pileus, everywhere fiiscoiis-fibrillose. Gills 

 attenuato-adnexed, ventricose, broad, crowded, but almost distant 

 when the pileus is expanded, quite entire, white-flesh then mouse- 

 colour. 



The pileus is not split longitudinally into cracks as in A. rimostis. Com- 

 monly gregarious. Odour and taste almost none. It varies very much, but 

 is easily distinguished from species which are somewhat like by the flesh being 

 reddish, and by the stein never being zuhite-pulverulent at the apex. There is 

 a more slender variety with hollow stem and narrower gills. "*• 



In woods, chiefly on naked soil. Common. July-Oct. 



Name — lacerus, torn. Torn into scales. Fr. Mo7iogr. i. p. 339. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 229. Berk. Out. p. 154. C. Hbk. 7i. 321. 6'. Mycol. Scot. n. 289. 

 Hoffm. Ic. t. 12. f. I. 



537. A. flocculosus Berk. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, brown- 

 ish fawn-colour, somewhat fleshy, convex, somewhat campanulate, 

 umbonate, silky-squamulose, the margin smoother; veil Vv^hite, 

 fibrillose, fugacious. Stem 4 cent. {i}4. in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, fibrillose, pale-fawn ; beneath the fibrillae brown, the apex 

 minutely squamuloso-pulverulent. Gills arched behind and then 

 adnate but not broadly so, ventricose, at first pale-fawn, at length 

 dull-ferruginous, margin white. 



Odour like that of new meal, but nauseous. On naked soil the characters 

 are as described above ; among grass the pileus is smoother, more tawny, 

 rimosely silky, and the gills not arcuate behind but broadly adnate. Very 

 nearly allied to A. latiuginosus and to A. lacerus. 



On the naked soil and among grass. Rare. Sept. -Oct. 



