CLAVIS AGAIUCINORUM. 317 



Series III. Deemint, Fr. Epicr. p. 160. — Spores various sliades of redd is h- 

 brown, Irown, red, or yellowish-hrown. 



Subgenus 19. Pholiota, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 240 (Plate CII. 

 fig. 19). — Spores sepia-brown, bright yellowish-brown, or light red; 

 stem confluent and homogeneous with the hymenophoruin, furnished 

 with a ring, persistent, friable, or fugacious. — Hab. All the British 

 species grow on stumps except five, which grow on the ground prin- 

 cipally in damp, mossy places. 



A few species are said to be edible, but they cannot be recom- 

 mended. PJioliota is analogous to Armillaria, Plate C. fig. 3, and 

 StropJiaria, Plate CII I. fig. 28. There is some danger of confusing 

 JBholiolce with Cort'marii, but attention must be paid to the spidery 

 veil and the riist-of-iro>i tint of the spores in the latter, and the 

 habitat of the former. The species figured is Agaricus (Pholiota) 

 squarrosiis, Miill. Spores -00023" X -0001 7". 



Subgenus 20. Hebeloma, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 349 ; with which 

 I include hiocyhe, Fr. Monogr. Hymen. Suec. vol. i. p. 334 (Plate CII. 

 fig. 20). — Spores for the most part clay-coloured, or in Inocybe ferru- 

 gineo-fuscous ; veil of a different texture from the pellicle of the pileus, 

 or in Inocybe homogeneous with the fibres of the pileus ; pileus fleshy, 

 pelliculose, damp, subviscous, or (in Inocybe) fibrous ; stem confluent 

 and homogeneous with the hymenophoi'um, fleshy-fibrous, ringless ; 

 gills sinuato-adnate. — Hab. All terrestrial. 



All the species are gregarious, and many so similar in appearance as 

 to be with difficulty distinguished from each other. Some are scent- 

 less, several smell like rotten pears, and many have a disgusting odour 

 and are poisonous ; none arc esculent. Fries, in his ' Monographia Hy- 

 menomycetum Sueciae,' has introduced a new subgenus after Ilebeloma, 

 which he names Inocybe, distinguished by the pileus being silky -Jib rom, 

 and having a few other unimportant characters ; but I do not see how 

 such a subgenus can stand, unless, indeed, a similar corresponding 

 subgenus be founded after Tricholoma, Entoloma, and Hypholoma, for 

 all these subgenera have niunerous species exactly corresponding with 

 the silky pileus, etc. of Inocybe. I therefore prefer to keep to his old 

 views as expressed in the ' Epicrisis,' ami keep Inocybe as a sec- 

 tion of Ilebeloma. Ilebeloma corresponds with Tricholoma, Plate C. 

 fig. 4, Entoloma, Plate CI. fig. 13, Hypholoma, Plate CIII. fig. 29, 

 and Panceolus, Plate CIV. fig. 33. The species figured is Ayaricus 



