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280. Agazicus (Leptonia) asprellus. Fr. •■ Rough Leptonia." 



Pileus somewhat membranaceous, convex, then expanded, 

 striate, hygrophanous, with a darker umbilicus, squamuloso- 

 fibrillose ; stem fistulose, slender, smooth; gills adnate, seceding, 

 rather distant, equally attenuated, whitish grey. — Fr. Epicr. p, 

 154. Berk. Outl.p. 147. 



In open pastures. Bristol. Wansford. 



Pileus at first dingy or mouse colour, soon plane and livid grey, usually 

 smooth, except in the centre, 1-1^ in. broad ; stem 1-2 in. long, scarcely 1 

 lin. thick, even, smooth, livid, greenish, or light blue. 



Sub-Gen. 17. Xolaxea. Fr. S. M. i. p. 204. 



Spores salmon colour ; pileus submembranaceous (as in Lep- 

 tonia and Eccilia), sub-campanulate, and papillose, not umbili- 

 cate, at first straight and pressed to the stem, not incurved as in 

 Leptonia ; stem cartilaginous, fistulose, sometimes stuft'ed, con- 

 fluent with but heterogeneous from the hymenojDhore ; gills 

 not de current. 



Hab. Generally terrestrial, growing on grassy hills, and in 

 wet places in woods. — Fl. III., Jig. 17. 



The species are thin, slender, inodorous, and brittle (but some very tena- 

 cious), growing in summer and autumn. Xolanea corresponds with MyceiuXy 

 Galera, PsoJhi/ra, snidPsatkyrella. — W. G. S. 



281. Agaricus (Nolanea) pascuus. P. ■• Pasture Xolanea." 



Pileus membranaceous, conical, then expanded, sub-umbonate, 

 smooth, striate, hygrophanous, when dry shining like silk; stem 

 fistulose, fragile, silky fibrous, striate ; gills attenuated behind, 

 nearly free, ventricose, crowded, dirty greyish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 

 166.^ Scha'ff.t.'22d. Buxh.'w.t. '21, f. 1. Batt.t.2o, E. Bolt.t. 

 35. Eng. Fl. v. p>. ^\, partly. 



In pastures. Inodorous. [United States.] 



Stem soft, 2-3 in. long, 1-2 lin. thick, striate ; pileus 2-3 in. broad, some- 

 times scarcely exceeding 1 in., diney when moist, when dry hoary or pale 

 fawn-c^^lour. Spores irregular, rounded, pentagonal, hexagonal, &c., dia- 

 meter from -0003 to "00042 in. (PI. III., f. 17, reduced.) 



282. Agaricus (Nolanea) rufo-carneus. Berli. •• Eed-brown 



Xolanea.'" 



Pileus submembranaceous, hemispherical, umbilicate, indis- 

 tinctly fibrilloso-srjuamulose, red brown ; margin striate ; stem 

 elongated, pale rufous, rather incrassated at the base ; gills ad- 



