HYPHOLOMA. 393 



when dry truly rugulose, rather atomate, ochraceous 1)600111- 

 iog pale. Gills subadnate, crowded, dry, white then flesh- 

 colour, at length hrown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma catarius. Fr. 



Pileus h-^ in. across, flesh thin, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, even, glabrous, hygrophanous, ochraceous, becom- 

 ing paler when dry ; gills adnate, narrow, rather crowded, 

 whitish then brown; stem 1-1| iu. long, 1-1| line thick, 

 equal, white, rather shining, base incrassated and covered 

 with white floccose down, apex striate, hollow ; ring superio)-, 

 fugacious, often attached in fragments to the margin of the 

 pileus ; spores elliptic-oblong, 6 x 3 /x. 



Agaricus (Hi/pholoma) catarius, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 296 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1176 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 337. 



Agaricus felmus, Passerini (not of Persoon). 



On the ground amongst grass. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose, ochraceous, pileus scarcely 1 in. 

 diameter. Stem about li in. long. Spores 6 x 3 /x. 

 (Cooke.) 



Hypholoma leucotephrum. B. & Br. 



Tufted ; pileus 2-3 in. across, at first pallid, subcampanu- 

 late, rugose, then con vexo -expanded and whitish ; gills 

 narrow, li line broad, slightly adnate, greyish- white, grey, 

 then blackish ; stem 3-4 in. high, i in. thick, silky-fibrou& 

 below, apex striate or sulcato-striate, fistulose, ring ample, 

 here and there appendiculate from margin of pileus ; spores 

 purple-brown, 10 X 6 /a. 



Agaricus (^Hypholoma) leucotephrus, B. & Br., Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 n. 1256; Cke., Illustr., t. 548. 



In large masses at the base of ash-trees. This is clearly 

 different from A. Candolleanus and A. appendiculatus. The 

 pileus is not of a rich brown when young, nor are the gills 

 when old at all brown. (B. & Br.) 



Hypholoma egenulus. B. & Br. 

 Solitarj\ Pileus Ih in. across, hemispherical then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, watery white, when dry snow-wliite, 

 not decidedly rugose or atomate, quite smooth as if gunimeil,. 

 margin finely striate, appendiculate; gills slightly ventri- 

 cose, adnate with a decurrent tooth, rather distant, purplish- 



