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ated downwards, or subfusif orm, squarrose with revolute, crowded, floe- 

 cose scales up to the sharply defined annular zone, apex pallid. Gills 

 whitish, becoming fuscous, adnate, crowded, linear, margin white. 

 Flesh white. Spores brown, pip-shaped, or wedge-shaped, 9-10 x 4- 

 5/z, 1-guttulate. Cystidia ventricose, 75-80 x 12-14/A, fairly abun- 

 dant. Smell of new meal. Woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



562. I. incarnate Bres. (= Inocybe pyriodora (Pers.) Fr. sec. Rene 

 Maire.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 53. 



Incarnata, made flesh colour. 



P. 5-8 cm., yellowish rufescent, or flesh colour, fleshy, convexo- 

 campanulate, then expanded and gibbous, or broadly umbonate, 

 fibrillose, then squamulose, margin villosely fimbriate. St. 6-8 cm. 

 x 6-15 mm., rosy flesh colour, apex white, furfuraceous, attenuated 

 downwards, somewhat rooting, somewhat fibrillose. Gills whitish, 

 then cinereous-cinnamon, at length spotted with red, or from the first 

 becoming red, sinuato-adnate, crowded, edge fimbriate. Flesh of 

 pileus white, becoming deep red when broken, that of the stem red from 

 the first. Spores yellowish-brown, broadly elliptical, 12-15 x 6-8/x. 

 Cystidia fusoid, 50-65 x 15-18/z, apex brownish. Smell pleasant, 

 like pears. Woods. June Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



563. I. nigrodisca Peck. Niger, black; discus, a quoit. 

 P. 1-2 cm., blackish-brown, margin greyish, convex, then plane, or 



depressed, umbonate, very minutely fibrillose. St. 2-5-3-5 cm. long, red- 

 dish brown, slender, firm, flexuose, minutely pruinosely downy. Gills 

 greyish, then rusty-brown, sometimes tinged yellow, free, or subadnexed, 

 rounded behind, crowded. Spores ferruginous, subelongate, 5-5- 

 6-5 x 4-5-5/z. Cystidia fairly abundant, ventricose, 45-55 x 12-16/z. 

 Among moss and grass. Rare. 



564. I. mutica Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 418, t. 382. Mutica, curtailed. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., whitish, or tinged yellowish with darker adpressed 



squamules, fleshy, convex, then plane, always very obtuse, at length 

 subdepressed in the centre. St. 3-6 cm. x 5-8 mm., white straw colour, 

 becoming somewhat fuscous, often attenuated downwards, sometimes 

 enlarged at the base, fibrillose. Gills white, then slightly fuscous, 

 adnate, or attenuated behind and becoming free, thin, crowded. 

 Flesh white. Spores elliptical, 8-10 x 5/u., 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 fusoid, 51-80 x 12-15/u, abundant. Woods, and roadsides. Sept. 

 Nov. Not common, (v.v.) 



565. I. brunnea Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 9. 



Brunnea, brown. 



P. 3-5 cm., chestnut colour, fleshy, campanulate, umbonate, fibril- 

 losely silky, then cracked. St. 3-6 cm. x 5-6 mm., concolorous, or 



