108 AGARICACE/E Entoloma 



496. E. Wynnei Sacc. (after Mrs. Lloyd Wynne) a b. 



P. plane, smooth, sometimes umbilicate, pale umber or smoky ; 



marg. crisped, striate, at first smooth, then breaking up into 



minute sc. St. hollow, dusky grey. G. sinuate, veined, 



pallid salmon. 

 Taste insipid ; odour of bugs or like 1278. Woods, fir. Sept.-Nov. 



i\ X 3 X T 3 g- in. Allied to 497, but with G. less veined, less undulate and 



less distant. 



497. E. eostatum Gill, (from the transverse ribs or veins on the gills ; 



cost a, a rib) a b c. 



P. plane, fuscous-livid or greyish. St. hollow, colour as P. G. 



very broad, almost free, salmon. 



Solitary or ceespitose. Odour none. Damp meadows, pastures, swampy 

 ground, grass-covered stumps : common. Aug.-Nov. 2§ x 2 x ^ in. 



498. E. serieeum Quel, (from the silky pileus ; sericeus, silky) a b c. 

 P. plane, umber; mid. darker. St. hollow, pale greyish-umber. 



G. emarginate, greyish then rufescent. 



Gregarious. Odour strong of new meal. Meadows, open woods; frequent. 

 May-Oct. 2 X 2^ X T 3 g- in. This and 499 may be one species. 



499. E. Persoonii Sacc. (after C. H. Persoon) a b c. 



P. campanulate, subumbonate, silky-fibrous, splitting, membranous, 

 white ; mid. faintly ochreous ; marg. striate to disc. St. hollow 

 above, abruptly bulbous, cartilaginous, white. G. adnexo- 

 adnate, pale rose or flesh-colour, then darker. 



Grassy places. Autumn. 2X2jx T \ m - 



500. E. nidorosum Quel, (from its strong odour ; nidor, reeking) a b c. 

 P. plane, ashy fawn-colour, whitish or purple-brown. St. stuffed, 



whitish. G. emarginate, salmon. 



Odour nitrous, alkaline, sometimes obsolete. Lawns, open woods ; common. 

 Aug.-Xov. 3 x 3f X T 5 ff in. 



501. E. speculum Quel, (from the shining pileus ; speculum, a mirror) 



a c. 



P. plane or depressed, umbonate, whitish-straw or whitish ; marg. 



striate. St. stuffed or hollow, paler than P. G. adnexo-free, 



ventricose, salmon. 



Solitary or subcaespitose. Odour none. Amongst grass and twigs. Oct. 

 2| X 2j X \ in. 



502. E. tortipes Mass. (from the twisted stem ; tortus, twisted, pes, a 



foot) a b. 

 P. hygrophanous, thin, splitting, plane, depressed, umbonate, livid 



brown. St. solid, with a bark, striate above, pale brown within 



and without. G. sinuate, salmon-white. 

 On dung. Autumn. 3§ X 2| X ^ in. 



