DERMINI. 289 



*^-5f piieus destitute of scales, silky or sprinkled with ato77is. Naucoria. 



648. A. carpophilus Fr. — Piieus 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, 

 somewhat tan when moist, pallid, even whitish when dry, hygro- 

 phanous, somewhat membranaceous, convex, obtuse, furfurate 

 with shifting- atoms, sometimes Sit the same time floccoso-squam- 

 ulose. Stem short, scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, Jiliybr7n and 

 sometimes capillary, stuffed or obsoletely fistulose, pallid, at Jirst 

 fiirfuraceous, then naked. Gills rounded-adnexed, somewhat 

 free, ventricose, broad, somev/hat distant, crenulated, at first 

 pallid, at length ochraceous. 



Allied to A. furfur aceus. 

 . On beech mast and leaves. Rare. Sept.-Oct. 



In letterpress to ' Icones ' Fries says the piieus is 2 mm. (i lin.) rarely more 

 broad. Name — /capTros, fruit ; <^iA.09, loving. From its usual habitat on fruit 

 of beech, &c. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 386, Hym. Eur. p. 265. Icon. t. 12.6./. 4. 

 B. 6^ Br. n. 910, C. Hbk. n. 372. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 344. 



649. A. graminicola Nees. — Piieus 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, fus- 

 cous then fawn-ochraceous, somewhat membranaceous, convex, 

 papillate, shaggy-tomejitose. Stem slender, tough, hirsute, be- 

 coming fuscous. Gills slightly adnexed, somewhat distant, pallid- 

 ochraceous. 



Remarkable. Under a lens the piieus is covered vi'iih strigose hairs. 



On stalks of grass. Glamis, 1874. Oct. 



The specimens vi^hich I submitted to Berkeley have confirmed the opinion 

 that it is a true Naucoria, a point w^hich was doubtful when ' Hym. Eur.' was 

 published. Name — gramen, grass ; colo, to inhabit. Growing on grasses. 

 Nees. Syst. f. i86. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 265. B. &f Br. n. 1532. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 345. Krombh. t. 3./. 13 (handsomer, stem branched). 



Subgenus XXIV. PLUTEOLUS (from Pluteus, a subgenus of Plutedus. 

 Hyporhodii). Piieus slightly fleshy, viscid, conical or campanu- 

 late then expanded, the margin at the first straight, adpressed to 

 the stem. Stem somewhat cartilaginous, separate from the hy- 

 menopho7'e. Gills rounded-free, wholly like those of Plutei. Fr. 

 Hyin. Eur. p. 266. 



Analogous with Plutei. 



650. A. reticulatus Pers. — Piieus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, vio- 

 laceous, varying fuscous and livid grey, slightly ficshy, campanu- 

 late then expanded, umbonate when full grown, somewhat repand, 

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