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late. Cystidia on edge of gill clavate, or cylindrical, flexuose, 

 obtuse, 23-29 x 4 5 fj,. Caespitose. Stumps and trunks, especially 

 Tilia cordata. April Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



299. P. marginata (Batsch) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 403, t. 372. 



Marginata, furnished with a border. 



P. 2-5 cm., honey coloured when moist, tan when dry, hygrophanous, 

 slightly fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, margin striate. St. 

 3-9 cm. x 2-8 mm., concolorous, equal, fibrillose, striate, but becoming 

 fuscous, and commonly white velvety at the base. Ring pale yellow, 

 membranaceous, distant, often cortinate and fugacious. Gills pallid, 

 then darker cinnamon, adnate, crowded, thin, narrow. Flesh con- 

 colorous, becoming paler. Spores deep ochraceous, fusiform-elliptical, 

 8-10 x 5jn, 1-2-guttulate, "almost punctate" Rick. Cystidia "ven- 

 tricose-fusiform, 50-60 x 10-12jU " Rick. On twigs, and on the 

 ground, especially in coniferous woods. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



300. P. sororia Karst. Sororia, sisterly. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., tawny cinnamon, convex, then expanded, slightly 

 striate, squamulose. St. 5 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, then paler, 

 variegated with white squamules, equal, wavy, apex scurfy. Gills pallid, 

 then cinnamon, sinuato-adnate, crowded. Spores 6-7 X 3-4 p. On 

 chips, and twigs. Rare. 



301. P. mustelina Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 404, t. 356. 



Mustelina, belonging to a weasel. 



P. 1-1-5 cm., yellow, ochraceous, slightly fleshy, campanulate, con- 

 vex. St. 2-2-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., pallid, equal, base thickened and white 

 villose, white mealy above the ring. Ring brown, membranaceous, re- 

 flexed. Gills tawny cinnamon, adnate, subdistant, edge white, crenulate. 

 Stumps, especially pine. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



302. P. unicolor (Fl. Dan.) Fr. Unicolor, of one colour. 



P. 6-20 mm., bay brown, then ochraceous, hygrophanous, fleshy, 

 campanulate, then convex, umbonate, at length striate. St. 3-4 cm. 

 x 2 mm., concolorous, or bistre brown at the base, equal, apex mealy. 

 Ring yellowish, membranaceous, thin, entire, distant, persistent. Gills 

 pallid-ochrey, slightly adnexed, ventricose, broad, edge white. Flesh con- 

 colorous, thin. Spores deep ochraceous, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5 /^, 1-guttu- 

 late, "almost punctate. Cystidia on edge of gill filamentous, ventri- 

 cose at base, 50-60 x 8-10/x, apex 5/u, in diam." Rick. Trunks and 

 branches of larch, and on the ground. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



