HYMENOMYCETES. 



Series II. Hyporhodii. 



Sub-genus VOLVAKIA. 



59 A. BOMBYCiNus. Sclioeff. 3 — 6. 4 — 6. |. 



Pileus fleshy, when young very obtusely campanulate, then 

 expanded and plane, beautifully silky, not viscid, crumb of 

 bread colour ; g^Us ventricose, free, white, then pink, at length 

 brownish ; stem fiiin, attenuated upwards : volva forming a 

 flaccid cup at the bottom of the stem. Growing gregariously 

 on a heap of compost by the road side near Eccleston, June, 

 1856. The dimensions correspond with those given by Fries in 

 S.M., but A. hombycimts is said to grow upon trees. Schoeifer's 

 plate of A. bombycinus does not indicate the peculiarly beautiful 

 cylindrico-campanulate form of the Eccleston plant when young. 



00 A. sPECiosus. Fries. 5. 4. ^ above, f below. 



Pileus obtusely conic, becoming expanded and broadly umbo- 

 nate, very viscid, greyish white, centre yellowish from the 

 thickened slime ; gills broad, ventricose, free, pale, then rose 

 colour, brownish inclining to cinnamon when dry ; stem 

 smooth, straight, firm, slightly attenuated upwards ; sub- 

 bulbous ; volva not distinctly lobed. Spores elUptic, clouded 

 with pinkish olive. '00063. Basidia almost immersed, apices 

 hemispherical. Solitary, amongst grass watered by a drain. 

 New Brighton. 



Sub-genus PLUTEUS. 



61 A. cERviNUs. Fries. Ep. 3 — 5. 2 — 4. | — J, 



Pileus fleshy, at first oval, then broadly convex, often silky, 

 when young nearly black, then umber or smoky brown ; gills 

 ventricose, free, remote when dry, pale, changing to rose. 

 Spores broadly elliptic. 0004. Basidia conspicuous. A. 

 Plutens. E.F. About saw-pits, and rotten stumps ; common 

 throughout the year. 



Sub-genus ENTOLOMA. 



62 A. SERiCELLUs. Fries. 2. f . 1 line. 



Pileus thin, pale, silky but not very smooth ; gills delicate 

 rose-colour; stem white. In woodlands, amongst grass. 

 Knowsley. Stourton. 



63 A. RHODOPoucs. Fries. 2 — 4. 1 — 3. i — {. 



Pileus rather fleshy, nearly plane, satiny, very dark brown, 

 paler when dry ; gills broad, grey, changing to rose ; stem 

 firm, often dusted at the apex with rose-coloured spores ; 

 odour nitric. Spores many angled, nucletis round. '0004. 

 Pastuies. Flajbrick, Bainhill, &c. 



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