1 96 INOCYBE 



St. 2-5-5 cm., white, slightly narrowed and mealy above, loosely 

 fibrillose below, base subbulbous, white tomentose. Gills pale cinna- 

 mon, edge paler and fimbriate, broadly attached, with a strong decur- 

 rent tooth, ascending at first, then ventricose, scarcely crowded, 

 rather broad. Spores cinnamon, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 5/z Cystidia, nu- 

 merous, fusoid, or subventricose, 40-50 x 14-18/*. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



544. I. sambucina Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 109, fig. 2. 



Sambucina, belonging to elder. 



Entirely white. P. 4-8 cm., often becoming pallid-yellow, fleshy, firm, 

 convex, then expanded, often repand, obtuse, fibrilloso-silky. St. 2-5- 



4 x 1-2-5 cm., often curved, equal, or subbulbous at the base, striate, 

 obsoletely pruinose at the apex. Gills becoming dingy ochre, emar- 

 ginate, slightly adnexed, ventricose, 4-6 mm. broad. Flesh white. 

 Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 9-12 x 6/u,. Cystidia ventricose, 50- 

 60 x 12-16/x, scattered. Smell strong. Coniferous woods. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon. 



545. I. Clarkii B. & Br. Cke. lUus. no. 439, t. 429, lower figs. 



J. Aubrey Clark. 

 P. 2-3 cm., whitish, campanulate, obtuse, silky-fibrillose. St. 3- 



5 cm. x 4 mm., white, equal, slightly thickened at the \>a,se,fiocculose. 

 Gills pallid, margin white, adnexed, rather distant, broadish. Flesh 

 pallid. Spores pale, elliptical, 8-10 x 5-6 p. Cystidia ventricose, 

 55-65 x 12-16/it, some narrower, scattered. Shady places. Oct. Rare. 



546. I. corydalina Quel. (= Inocybe pyriodora Fr. sec. Rene Maire.) 

 Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 4. Corydalis, the genus Corydalis. 



P. 3-6 cm., whitish, covered with bistre fibrils, green at the umbo, 

 fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate. St. 3- 5 x -5-1 cm., 

 whitish, curved, subbulbous, striate, pruinose. Gills whitish, then 

 brown; edge fimbriate, white, adnate, emarginate, 5-7 mm. wide. Flesh 

 white, becoming yellowish with age. Spores brown, elliptical, 7-9 x 4-5 /A . 

 Cystidia fusiform, ventricose, 42-51 x 15-18/u,. Smell pleasant, like 

 Corydalis cava. Deciduous woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



547. I. geophylla (Sow.) Fr. (= Inocybe geophila (Bull.) Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 440, t. 401. 777, earth; <j>v\\ov, leaf. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., white, sometimes tinged yellow when old, somewhat 

 fleshy, conical, then expanded, umbonate, silky, then fibrillose, often 

 cracking. St. 4-8 cm. x 2-6 mm., white, equal, base slightly thickened, 

 often flexuose, satiny, apex white-mealy. Gills whitish, then clay- 

 fuscous, and earth colour, almost free, rather broad, ventricose, crowded. 

 Flesh white. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 7-10 x 4-5 /u,. Cystidia ven- 

 tricose, 45-60 x 13-15//,, abundant. Smell earthy, taste slightly acrid. 

 Woods, under trees, and hedgerows. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



