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inocybe. 550. A. rimosus Bull. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad, 



yellowish, but varying rufescent and date - brown (especially 

 when old), fleshy, at first co7iico-cainpa7iulate, obtuse, then more 

 flattened, and at length reflexed, umbonate, somewhat Jibrillose, 

 loi2gitudmally cracked, disc sometimes even, sometimes cracked 

 in a tesselated manner ; flesh firm, ivhite. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 

 in.) long, 6-8 mm. (3-4 lin.) thick, solid, firm, longitudinally 

 fibrous within, round, in the best form thicke?ted even marginato- 

 bulbous and fibrillose at the base, mealy upwards^ becoming 

 yellow or fuscous but always pallid. The thin cortina fugacious. 

 Gills very i7tuch attenuated behi7id, free or slightly adnexed, some- 

 what ventricose, quaternate, whitish the7i beco77ti7ig fuscous, and at 

 length becoming ferruginous, edge serrulated, pallid. 



Odour earthy. The marginato-bulbous form of stem is probably Schcsff. t. 

 258./. 1-3. 



In woods and open ground. Common. June-Oct. 



Subgregarious. Pileus shining, satiny with adpressed fibrillae, the inner 

 substance appearing through the cracks of a yellow hue ; sometimes the epi- 

 dermis cracks concentrically, and the lower edge of the cracked portions is re- 

 flected so as to present a squarrose appearance. There are several varieties, 

 in some of which the stem is white, in others coloured like the pileus, M.J.B. 

 Spores elliptic, ferruginous, M.J.D. ; ellipsoid or sphaeroid-ellipsoid, even, lo- 

 14X 5-8 mk. A'. ; iixymk. W.G.S. Name — rzV;?^, a crack. Full of cracks. 

 Bull. t. 388. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 342. Hym. Eur. p. 232. Berk. Eng. Fl. 

 V. p. 97. Out. p. 155, t. 8,/. 5. C. Hbk. ?i. 330. Illust. PL 384. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. 71. 297. Sow. t. 323. Grev. t. 128. Batsch f. 107. Krombh. t. 44./^ 

 10-12. B. pileus adpressedly scaly. A. morosus y?^;?^/z. /. 6.f. 6. 



551. A. asterosporus Quel. — Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (i-i^ in.) broad, 

 bistre, with brown strise, convex, umbonate, cracked. Stem 

 stuffed, firm, bulbous, furnished with a separable cuticle, reddish, 

 pubescent, with brown striae. Gills emarginate, ventricose, thin, 

 whitish bistre then cinnamon. 



Odour mouldy. 



On the ground in wood. Dinedor, &c. Aug.-Oct. 



Very similar to A. rimostis, for a form of which it might be mistaken with- 

 out examination of the spores. Spores globose, ,012 mm., stellate-spinulose, 

 Q. Name — aster, a star. From the star-shaped spores. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 

 vol. xxvi. p. 50. Bull. Soc. Rouen, PI. \\. f. 6. Grevillea, vol. viii. p. jS. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1885, p. 24. C. Illust. PI. 385. 



552. A. eutheles B. & Br. — Pileus fawn-coloured, expanded, 

 strongly umbonate, somewhat undulated, silky-shining, somewhat 

 squamulose. Stem solid, fibrous, somewhat equal, slightly striate, 

 pallid. Gills adnate, slightly toothed, pallid, white-margined. 



Smell farinaceous, rather disagreeable. It differs from A. fastigiatus in the 



