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Gregarions, fleshy, subgelatinous, 1 line liigli and broad, fixed at the base 

 by very delicate white fibres ; gills about 12, thick, ventricose. — Fries. Gilla 

 white to stone-colour, margin sub-crenate, white, and somewhat cottony in 

 young specimens. — Purton. 



Sub-Gen. 23. Naucoria. Fr. S. M., i. p. 260. 



Spores various shades of brown, dull or bright; veil absent, or 

 attached to the edge of the pileus, in young plants in the form 

 of minute flakes ; pileus convex and inflexed, smooth, fiocculent 

 or squamulose ; stem cartilaginous, confluent with but hetero- 

 geneous from the hymenophore. 



Hab. Terrestrial or epiphytal. (PL IV., f. 23.) 



No subgenus includes so many dissimilar species as this. In size, struc- 

 ture, the nature of the veil, and the colour of the spores, they differ exceed- 

 ingly. Naucoria corresponds with Collybia, L&j^tx>tiiay and Psilocyhe. — W.G. S. 



Sect. 1. Gymnoti — naked, spores rusty. 



358. Agaiiciis (Naucoria) cucumis. P. "Cucumber 



Naucoria." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, broadly campanulate, smooth, growing 

 pale ; stem thin, firm, smooth, dark-brown, thickened at the 

 apex, hollow, sub-pruinose; gills slightly adnexed, ventricose, 

 pallid, saffron-yellow. — Fr. JEpicr. }:>. 193. Sow. t. 34-4. Eng. Fl. 

 V.J9. 99. 



Amongst sawdust. 



Pileus 1-1|- in. broad, even, smooth, when moist bay -brown, with a pur- 

 plish tinge, pale about the margin, when dry fawn-coloured or tan; giUs 

 very ventricose, close, distinct, dirty white, with somewhat of a saffron tint. 

 Stem li-2 in. high, 1-1^ line thick, attenuated downwards, firm, smooth, 

 hollow, pale at the apex. Odour exactly that of fresh cucumber. — Fries. 



359. Agazicus (Naucoria) centunculus. Fr. "Lurid 



Naucoria." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, lurid-greenish, 

 then yellowish, turning pale ; stem fistulose, with whitish down 

 at the base, pulverulent above ; gills adnate, then seceding, thick, 

 broad, cinereous yellow, as well as the stem. — -Fr. Epicr.p. 193. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 72. 



On rotten wood. Oct. Rare. 



Gregarious. Pileus 3-10 lines broad, olivaceous brown, becoming pale, 

 even or slightly striate ; gills emarginate or free, sometimes crowded, some- 

 times somewhat distant, crisped when old, the edge denticulate with greenish- 

 yellow flocci. 



