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expanded, umbonate, fibrillosely rimose, sometimes minutely, 

 appressedly, floccosely squamulose. Stem 3-5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. 

 thick, coficolorous , apex at first tinged violet, equal, often flexuose, 

 solid, minutely fibrillose. Gills pallid, then brownish, 4-5 mm. 

 wide, adnexed, ventricose, somewhat crowded; margin white, 

 fimbriate. Flesh white, brownish under the cuticle of the pileus, 

 bluish at first in the stem, thick at the disc, very thin at the 

 margin of the pileus, firm. Smell and taste none. Spores brown- 

 ish in the mass, oblong-elliptical, depressed on one side, 8-1 1 

 X 4-5/u.. Cystidia hyaline, fusiform, ventricose, apex muricu- 

 late, 65-75 X 15-19/i. 



On the ground under oaks. Bishop's Wood, Selby, Yorkshire, 

 9th September, 1918. 



AsTROSPORiNA Schroet. 



This genus has the same characters as Inocybe but differs in 

 having irregular, angular, echinulate, or verrucose, ochraceous 

 or ferruginous spores and Inocybe becomes restricted to species 

 having smooth, elliptical, ochraceous or ferruginous spores. 



Astrosporina lanuginella Schroet. Schroet., Pilzfl. von Schle- 

 sien, I, 577. 



Pileus 1-5-3 cm. wide, tawny, or greyish brown, campanulato- 

 convex, then plane, obtusely umbonate,. fibrillose, cracked 

 ("fibrils septate, apical cell 35-40 x 8-ii/>t, with rounded ends," 

 sec. Schroeter). St. 1-5-5 cm. long, 1-5-5 mm. thick, pallid, 

 apex at first delicately tinged with lilac, base brownish, equal, 

 fibrillose. Gills pallid, then cinnamon, 2-3 mm. wide, slightly 

 adnexed, somewhat crowded, edge fimbriate. Flesh white, tinged 

 reddish under the cuticle of the pileus and stem, thick at the disc, 

 thin at the margin of the pileus, firm. Smell and taste none. 

 Spores cinnamon in the mass, oblong, obtusely angular, 8-1 1 

 X 5-7 /x. Cystidia hyaline, either fusiform, ventricose, obtuse at 

 the apex, muriculate or not, 40-70 x 15-23/u., or acicular and 

 acute. 



On the ground in a cart track through oak woods, St George's 

 Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, 4th August, 1919, Mr A. A. Pearson. 



Astrosporina fulva Rea, v. PI. VII. 



Pileus 3-4 cm. \diiv[s,fulvus, centro obscuriore, carnosus, e con- 

 vexo expansus, longitudinaliter adpresse fibrillosus, margine 

 tenuis. Stipes 5-6 cm. longus, 5-6 mm. crassus, pilei concolor, 

 apice e lilacino expallens, aequalis, basi leviter attenuatus, farc- 

 tus, fibrilloso-striatus . Lamellae ex albo ochraceae, acie pallidi- 

 ores, postice sinuato-adnatae, 6-7 mm. latae, subconfertae. 

 Caro pilei alba, stipitis leviter rubescens, tenuis, inodora et in- 

 sapora. Sporae ochraceo-flavae, oblongae, angulato-tubercu- 



