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var. firma Fr. Firma, firm. 



Differs from the type in the fuscous-tan p. spotted with fuscous scales, 

 and in the velvety stem. 



540. I. pyriodora (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 411, t. 472. 



Pyrus, pear; odor a, scented. 



P. 4-8 cm., pale ochraceous, often reddish when young, campanulate, 

 obtuse, fleshy at the darker disc, everywhere torn into fibrils', margin 

 often bent in and lacerate, and sometimes repand. St. 5-15 x 1- 

 1'5 cm., pallid often tinged with red, fragile, equal, or attenuated 

 at the base, often curved, fibrillose, apex white-mealy. Gills whitish, 

 then somewhat fuliginous, adnate, sinuate, thin, crowded, edge whitish. 

 Flesh becoming reddish. Spores tawny, pip-shaped, 8-11 x 5-6 /A, 

 2-many-guttulate. Cystidia ventricose, or clavate, 55-60 x 15-21 p, 

 thick walled. Smell pleasant, like ripe pears. Woods. May Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



541. I. rimosa (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 429, t. 384. 



Rimosa, full of cracks. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., yellowish, varying rufescent, and date brown (especially 

 when old), fleshy, conico-campanulate, obtuse, then more flattened, 

 and at length reflexed, umbonate, somewhat fibrillose, longitudinally 

 cracked; disc sometimes even, sometimes cracked in a tesselated 

 manner. St. 47 cm. x 48 mm., whitish, becoming yellow, or fuscous, 

 firm, apex mealy. Gills whitish, then becoming fuscous, and ferruginous, 

 very much attenuated behind, free, or slightly adnexed, somewhat 

 ventricose, edge serrulated, pallid. Flesh white. Spores ferruginous 

 in the mass, ochraceous under the microscope, elliptical, 91 1 x 5 7 /A. 

 Cystidia fusoid, or ventricose, 60-68 x 9-14/n. Smell earthy. Woods, 

 and open ground. June Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



542. I. tomentosa (Jungh.) Quel. (= Inocybe eutheles B. & Br.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 431, t. 386, as Inocybe eutheles B. & Br. 



Tomentosa, downy. 



P. 2-5 cm., pale fawn-colour, campanulate, then expanded, strongly 

 umbonate, thin, villose, fibrillose; margin white, often appendiculate 

 with the veil. St. 4-8 cm. x 5-8 mm., pallid, or whitish, equal, 

 slightly swollen at the base, fibrillose, slightly striate. Gills pallid, 

 adnate, slightly toothed, margin white. Flesh white. Spores ochra- 

 ceous, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5/z,. Cystidia ventricose, 60-63 x 12-13/i, 

 abundant. Smell of new meal. Woods, and among fir-leaves. Aug. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



543. I. pallidipes Ellis & Everh. Pallidus, pale; pes, foot. 

 P. 2-3 cm., light brown, conico-campanulate, then expanded and 



umbonate, fibrose-squamose, disc innately scaly, margin subrimose. 



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