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membranaceous, white, distant, entire, reflexed. Gills pallid, then 

 watery ferruginous, adfixed, then separating almost free, ventricose, 

 crowded. Flesh becoming white, thin, soft. Spores ochraceous, ellip- 

 tical, or pip-shaped, 8-10 x 4-6 yn,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "on edge 

 of gill lanceolate-capitate, 50-60 x 12-15//," Rick. Heaths, and 

 pastures. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. brunneola Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 103, fig. 2. Brunneola, brownish. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, its obtuse, brown pileus, and 

 its narrower gills. 



267. P. molliscorium Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1161, t. 1171. 



Mollis, soft; ftopiov, skin. 



P. 57-5 cm., tawny yellow, disc darker, margin paler, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, at length depressed, soft like kid leather, shining; 

 margin acute, thin. St. 7-5 cm. x 6-10 mm., pale yellow, equal, erect, 

 silky, apex punctately squamulose. Ring yellow, distant, broad, de- 

 ciduous. Gills ferruginous, narrowly adnate, crowded, thin, ventri- 

 cose, 4 mm. broad. Flesh yellow, thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 

 12 x 5-6/i. Gregarious. On the ground. June. Rare. 



268. P. togularis (Bull.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 101. 



Togula, a little cloak. 



P. 2-4 cm., pallid ochraceous, disc darker, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, orbicular, sometimes striate. St. 3-6 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 whitish, becoming fuscous at the thickened base, equal, fibrillosely striate, 

 apex mealy. Ring white, membranaceous, medial, entire, spreading, 

 reflexed. Gills yellow, at length pallid ferruginous, adnato-separating, 

 attenuated at both ends, crowded. Flesh whitish, becoming yellow. 

 Spores ferruginous, oblong, 78 x 3-4 /A, 1-guttulate, "with flattened 

 germ-pore. Cystidia on edge of gill fusiform, 25-36 x 6-8 p," Rick. 

 Woods, and pastures. May Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. fllaris Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 104, fig. 4. Filum, a thread. 



Differs from the type in being two to three times smaller with a 

 yellowish stem. Lawns, and pastures. July. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



269. P. blattaria Fr. Blattarius, like a cockroach. 



P. 1-5-2-5 cm., ferruginous, becoming pale, hygrophanous, thin, 

 convex, or umbonate, soon flattened; margin paler, striate. St. 2-5- 

 5 cm. x 2 mm., white, equal, silky, straight. Ring white, membrana- 

 ceous, distant, silky, entire. Gills watery-cinnamon, rounded behind, 

 free, ventricose. Flesh concolorous, very thin. Spores ferruginous, 

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