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paler, thickened at the base, apex white, pruinose, fibrillosely striate. 

 Cortina concolorous, and fugacious. Gills cream colour, then umber, 

 edge white, indented, emarginate, broadest in front, 5 mm. wide. Flesh 

 white. Spores bistre, elliptical, 7-12 x 4-6/n. Cystidia ventricose, or 

 fusoid, 50-55 x 12-15/1, fairly abundant. Woods, also amongst grass 

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



566. I. haemacta Berk. & Cke. (= Inocybe pyriodora (Pers.) Fr. sec. 

 Rene Maire.) Cke. Illus. no. 410, t. 390. at f /iaro9, bloody. 



P. 2-5-5 cm , umber, margin pallid, often becoming stained with red, 

 or verdigris, disc darker, subsquamose, fleshy, compact, obtuse, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded, floccosely fibrillose. St. 4-5 cm. x 6-8 mm., 

 whitish above, tinged verdigris-green at the base, and often higher up, 

 scarcely fibrillose, nearly equal. Gills pallid, then dingy tan, adnate, 

 slightly rounded behind. Flesh turning blood red when touched or 

 wounded, verdigris at the base of the stem, and also often elsewhere. Spores 

 reddish brown, elliptical, 8-9 x 5/i, 1-guttulate. Cystidia ventricose, 

 6678 x 14-16/z, fairly numerous. Lawns, and gardens. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. rubra Rea. Rubra, red. 



Differs from the type in the blood red colour of the p. and St., which 

 is only tinged verdigris at the extreme base, although the flesh is tinged 

 verdigris for some considerable distance upwards. Bare earth. Sept. 

 Rare, (v.v.) 



567. I. conformata Karst. Conformata, shaped. 

 P. 1-3 cm., pale fuscous, or tinged rusty, convex, then expanded, 



umbonate, fibrillosely rimose, sometimes minutely, adpressedly, floc- 

 cosely squamulose. St. 3-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., concolorous, apex at first 

 tinged violet, equal, often flexuose, solid, minutely fibrillose. Gills 

 pallid, then brownish, 4-5 mm. wide, adnexed, ventricose, somewhat 

 crowded; margin white, fimbriate. Flesh white, brownish under the 

 cuticle of the p., bluish at first in the stem, thick at the disc, very thin 

 at the margin of the p., firm. Smell and taste none. Spores brownish 

 in the mass, oblong elliptical, depressed on one side, 8-11 x 4-5/n. 

 Cystidia hyaline, fusiform ventricose, apex muriculate, 65-75 x 15- 

 19/i. Under oaks in woods. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



568. I. flocculosa Berk. (=Inocybe scabella (Fr.) Bres. sec. Bataille.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 416, t. 393. Flocculosa, woolly. 



P. 2'5 cm., brownish fawn colour, somewhat fleshy, convex, sub- 

 campanulate, umbonate, silky squamulose, margin smoother, veil 

 white, fibrillose, fugacious. St. 4cm. x 4mm., pale fawn, fibrillose, 

 brown beneath the fibrillae, apex minutely squamuloso-pulverulent. 

 Gills pale fawn, at length dull-ferruginous, rounded behind, adnate 



