HYMENOMYCETBS. 



64 A. CLYPEATUS. Fries Ep. I'ar.MAMMOsus. Bolt. 3 — 4. 1 — 3. ^. 



Pileus fleshy, strongly unibonate, mouse grey, sometimes with 

 a shade of rose ; odour mealy. Spores many angled, nucleus 

 round. 0005. Pastures. Eainhill, Knowsley, &c. 



65 A. cosTATUs. Fr. Ep. 



Pileus thin, somewhat oval or expanded, hygrophanous, 

 dark livid brown ; stem hollow, pale, squamulose at the apex '; 

 gills slightly adnexed, pale, then rose-coloured ; odour none ; 

 whole plant very fragile. Common in pastures. Rainhill, &c. 



Sub-genus LEPTONIA. 



66 A. CHALYBEus. Pers. 1 — 1^. i — |. 1 line. 



Pileus dark blue, scaly ; stem firm, steel-blue, base downy. A 

 small group occurred "in a pasture, Eainhill, October, 1857. 



Sub-genus NOLANEA. 



67 A. PAScuus. Pers. 1 — 3. | — IJ. 1 — 2 lines. 



Pileus campanulate, then expanded, brown and striate when 

 moist, pale when dry ; gills dirty flesh-colour ; stem slender, 

 fistulose. Spores irregularly globose. 00045. A variable 

 plant, of which, according to Fries, ten distinct varieties may 

 be recognized. Odour always like that of fresh meal. Pastures ; 

 very common. 



Series III. Dermini. 



Sub-genus PHOLIOTA. 

 Humigenei — growing on the ground. 



68 A. AUREUS. Mathusk. 4—6, 4—6. |— 1. 



Pileus fleshy, convex, golden tawny with redder adpressed 

 scales or streaks ; gills nearly of the same colour ; veil forming 

 a ring near the apex of the stem. A conspicuously gay looking 

 species, growing not unfrequently in large tufts on stumps in 

 woods. 



69 A. PRyECox. Pors. 1—2. 1—2. \. 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then nearly plane, pale buff ; gills pale 

 purplish brown, subdecurrent with a tooth. Pastures and 

 sides of lanes. Spittal. Rainhill. 



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