194 CORTINABIUS. INOCYBE 



5-8 cm. x 4 mm., pallid fuscous, equal, curved, silky, spotted with 

 the white cortina. Veil obsolete except at the margin of the p. Gills 

 olivaceous, becoming ferruginous, adnate, scarcely ventricose, very 

 thin, subdistant, connected by veins. Flesh concolorous, thick at the 

 disc. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6 /x, verrucose" Rick. 

 Smell strong. Woods. Oct. Uncommon. 



538. C. (Hydro.) fasciatus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 855, t. 814. 



Fasciatus, arranged in bundles. 



P. 2-4 cm., brick colour, acute umbo blackish, becoming pale and 

 silky when dry, submembranaceous, conical, then expanded, acutely 

 umbonate, smooth. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-3 mm., pallid fuscous, then cinna- 

 mon fuscous, equal, straight, flexuose, undulate, fibrillosely fissile, 

 smooth. Gills cinnamon, adnate, subventricose, 3 mm. broad, thin, 

 distant. Flesh concolorous, slightly fleshy at the disc. Spores 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6/z,, with a large central gutta, 

 punctate. Pine woods, and under pines. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



2. Veil concrete with the epidermis of the pileus. 

 Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous, elliptical, smooth. 



Inocybe Fr. 

 (19, fibre; fcvftij, head.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Veil marginal, fugacious. Stem fleshy, cen- 

 tral. Gills adnate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores ochraceous, 

 ferruginous, olivaceous, or fuscous, elliptical, elliptic-oblong, pip- 

 shaped, or subreniform, smooth. Cystidia present, or absent, ven- 

 tricose, clavate, fusiform, or cylindrical. Growing on the ground. 



I. Cystidia present. 



*Stem whitish, or pallid. 



fGills brownish, ochraceous, or cinnamon. 



539. I. scabra (Mull.) Fr. (= Inocybe capucina Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. 



Illus. no. 413, t. 391. Scabra, rough. 



P. 1-5-4 cm., becoming pale fuliginous, or pale tan, variegated with 

 adpressed, darker (fuscous), spot-like, fibrous scales, fleshy, somewhat 

 compact, conical, then convex, obsoletely gibbous. St. 2-4 cm. x 6- 

 10 mm., whitish, firm, equal, cuticle cartilaginous, silky-fibrillose. 

 Gills whitish, then somewhat fuliginous, slightly adnexed, thin, some- 

 what crowded. Flesh white. Spores yellowish brown, pip-shaped, 

 9-11 x 5-6/x. Cystidia slightly ventricose, 65-75 x 12-16/i, abun- 

 dant. Coniferous, and mixed woods. June Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



