BOLBITIUS SPECIES B 



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the Panaeolus Sub-type, and appears to be associated only with 

 ephemeral fruit-bodies which open rapidly. 



Bolbitius species B.— Another species of Bolbitius was found 



Fig 31 .—Bolbitius species B. A, a fruit-body of small size, not 

 vet fully expanded. B, an older fully expanded fruit body. 

 C a vertical section through B. D and E, vertical sections 

 through the top of the pileus of A and B respectively: 

 q a transparent gelatinous membrane formed from the outer 

 walls of the palisade cells p ; /, other cells of the pileus-flesh. 

 F, a surface view of E showing the tops of palisade cells seen 

 through the transparent gelatinous membrane. G : a a, two 

 cheilocystidia from the free edge of a gill ; b, three cheilocy- 

 stidia much magnified ; c, a basidium and two paraphyses ; 

 d, a spore much enlarged. A, B, C, natural size. Magnifi- 

 cation : D, E, F, G a and c, 293 ; G 6 and d, 746. 



coming up on the dunged soil of a Cucumber-bed in a green-house 

 at Birmingham, England (Fig. 37, A, B, C). Its pileus was at first 

 conical, brownish-buff on the flanks, a little darker at the apex, 

 and about 2 cm. high. The gills were 20 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 and light chocolate-brown in colour. The stipe was 9-5 cm. high, 



