58 PLUTEUS 



oblong. Spores hyaline, or becoming very pale yellowish, broadly 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 6/4. On burnt and rotten wood, and rotting branches. 

 b. Oct. Uncommon. 



97. P. umbrosus (Pers.) Fr. (= Entoloma nigrocinnamomeum Schulz. 



sec. Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 88. Umbrosus, shady. 



P. 6-10 cm., umber, campanulate, then expanded, subumbonate, 

 more or less rugulose, covered with adpressed fibrils, then squamulose; 

 margin more or less lobed, ciliato-fimbriate. St. 5-10 x -5-3 cm., pale, 

 covered with villose, brown squamules, base white, floccose. Gills white, 

 then rosy,fuliginous-fimbriate at the margin, free, broad. Flesh white. 

 Spores pink, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5 //.. "Cystidia on edge fusoid bladder- 

 shaped, 15-25 /A broad, content yellowish-brown" Lange. Smell of 

 radish, taste slightly bitter. On stumps and fallen logs. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



98. P. ephebeus Fr. (=Pluteus villosus (Bull.) Quel.) 



, arrived at man's estate. 



P. 5-7 cm., violaceous bistre, fleshy, convex, then plane, at first 

 villose, finally floccose. St. 3-4 cm. x 5-8 mm., white, base swollen, 

 violaceous bistre, rigid, striate. Gills white, then rosy, free, very ventri- 

 cose, margin unequal. Flesh white, brownish under the cuticle. Spores 

 pink, globose, Qlfji, with a large central gutta. On rotten wood, and 

 trunks. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



99. P. argenteo-griseus Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. v, t. 4. 



Argenteus, silvery; griseus, grey. 



P. 3-5-4-5 cm. wide, 2-5 cm. high, snow white, then becoming smoky 

 grey, campanulate, obtusely umbonate, fioccosely-silky, atomate ; mar- 

 gin splitting, exceeding the gills. St. 6-7 cm. x 5-6 mm., concolorous, 

 curved, striate, base bulbous. Gills white, then pink, 11-12 mm. broad, 

 free, ventricose, crowded. Flesh white. Spores pink, globose, or 

 elliptical, 6 x 6/n, or 7-8 x 6/z, 1-many-guttulate. Cystidia none. 

 Dead wood. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



100. P. violarius Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 311, t. 518, fig. B. 



Violariiis, a dyer of violet colour. 



P. 1-5-2-5 cm., dark purple, darkest at the disc, hemispherical, then 

 nearly plane, minutely velvety; margin undulate. St. 2-3 cm. x 2- 

 3mm., pale umber, sprinkled with delicate, black fibrils below, ivhitish 

 above, attenuated upwards, silky. Gills whitish, then bright flesh 

 colour, free, crowded, margin serrulate. Flesh grey, thickish. Spores 

 pink, subglobose and apiculate, 5-6/i. On stumps, and rotten wood. 

 Rare. 



