INOCYBE 199 



obtusely umbonate, silky-fibrillose, rimose. St. 4-6 cm. x 5-10 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, often bulbous at the base, apex white-pruinose. 

 Gills whitish, then dusky cinnamon, usually with an olive tinge, edge 

 white, minutely flocculose, narrowed behind, adnexed, almost free, 

 somewhat crowded. Flesh white, tinged with pink. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, slightly curved or subreniform, 7-8 x 4-5 p. Cystidia 

 ventricose, 36-48 x 18-25/z, fairly numerous. Woods, and heaths. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



555. I. lucifuga Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 123. Lux, light ;fuga, avoiding. 

 P. 2-7-5 cm., somewhat olivaceous, sometimes becoming pale, rarely 

 fawn colour, fleshy, convexo-campanulate, then plane, more or less 

 umbonate, longitudinally fibrillose, or covered with minute adpressed 

 scales. St. 3-7 x 4-12 mm., pallid, equal, rigid, often flexuose, apex 

 white-farinose. Gills whitish, then yellowish, and finally pure olivaceous, 

 sinuate, ventricose, crowded, broad, crisped in large specimens. Flesh 

 white, slightly coloured under the cuticle. Spores olivaceous, elliptical, 

 8-9 x 4-5/x,. Cystidia ventricose, 60-70 x 12-14/x, scattered. Smell 

 strong, like radishes. Woods, roadsides, and under trees. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon. 



tinged violet. 



556. I. violaceifolia Peck. Violaceus, of a violet colour ; folia, leaves. 

 P. 1-1-5 cm., grey, convex, or almost plane, fibrillose, squamulose. 



St. 2-5 cm. x 3-4 mm., whitish, firm, slender, fibrillose. Gills pale 

 violet, then brownish cinnamon, adnexed, crowded. Spores elliptical, 

 10 x 6ju. Cystidia ventricose, 50-60 x 12-16/*,, fairly abundant. 

 Amongst moss. Sept. Kare. 



**Stem coloured. 

 fGills brown, ochraceous, or cinnamon. 



557. I. caesariata Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 437, t. 388. 



Caesariata, covered with hairs. 



P. 4 cm., tawny-dirty, or like a smooth sugared cake, fleshy, convex, 

 then expanded, gibbous, repand, becoming silky-even, finally almost 

 smooth at the disc, silky at the margin. St. 4 cm. x 6 mm., pallid, 

 unequal, sometimes twisted, somewhat thickened at the base, pruinose. 

 Gills whitish fuliginous, somewhat adnate, thin, crowded, ventricose. 

 Spores reniform, 8-10 x 4-5/a. Cystidia narrowly ventricose, 70- 

 80 x 12-15 /LI, "often septate" Rick., fairly abundant. Smell dis- 

 agreeable. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. fibrillosa Fr. (= Inocybe delecta Karst.) Fr. Icon. t. 109, fig. 3. 



Fibrillosa, full of fibrils. 



Differs from the type in the obsoletely umbonate, fibrillose, sometimes 

 squamulose, ochraceous pileus becoming tawny, in the very ochraceous- 



