PLUTEOLUS. PILOSACE 63 



114. P. reticulatus (Pers.) Fr. (= Pluteolus aleuriatus Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 516, t. 495. Reticulatus, netted. 



P. 4-5 cm., delicate bistre, becoming violaceous, fuscous, or livid 

 grey, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate when mature, 

 subrepand, viscid at first, and covered with a network of anastomosing 

 veins, becoming more even, or slightly pitted; margin slightly striate. 

 St. 4-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., white, equal, fragile, fibrillose, the cuticle be- 

 coming polished, even, subcartilaginous, apex mealy. Grills dingy 

 cinnamon, distinctly free, ventricose, crowded, arid. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores ochraceous ferruginous, broadly elliptical, often slightly de- 

 pressed on one side, 9-10 x 5-6^,, 2-4-guttulate. Cystidia obpyri- 

 form, or ventricose and apiculate, 15 x 8/u,. Dead wood. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



115. P. aleuriatus Fr. (= Pluteolus reticulatus (Pers.) Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Fr. Icon. t. 126, fig. 5. a\evpov, wheaten flour. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., bluish grey, livid, or rose colour, submembranaceous, 

 conical, then convexo-plane, viscid, striate to the disc. St. 2-5- 

 4 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, slightly attenuated upwards, straight, or 

 incurved, pulverulent. Gills saffron ochraceous, then cinnamon, free, 

 ventricose, 2 mm. broad, thin. Flesh white, very thin. Spores ferru- 

 ginous, oblong elliptical, 6-10 x 4/n, 1-guttulate. Rotten sticks, and 

 stumps. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



116. P. Mulgravensis Massee & Crossl. 



Mulgravensis, belonging to the Mulgrave woods, near Whitby. 

 P. 5-6 cm., grey, somewhat fleshy, convex, then expanded, um- 

 bonate, flocculose, becoming broken up into squamules, striate. St. 

 4 cm. x 3-4 mm., whitish, subequal, base subclavate, smooth. Gills 

 white, then cinnamon, free, crowded, broad. Spores ochraceous brown, 

 elliptical, 9-10 x 4-5/A. On wood. Sept. Rare. 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 

 Pilosace Fr. 



(7rtX,09, a cap; era/eo?, a shield.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central, stout. Gills free from the 

 stem. Spores bay purple, globose, smooth, with a germ-pore. Grow- 

 ing on the ground. 



117. P. Algeriensis Fr. in Quel. (\ = Stropharia epimyces (Peck) Atk. 

 sec. Harper.) Algeriensis, Algerian. 



P. 10cm., snow white, then reddish, or bistre, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, smooth, shining like a kid glove. St. 4-5 x 4-5 cm., 

 white, incrassated at the base, silky. Gills rosy flesh colour, then bistre 



