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besprinkled with fioccose scales; margin fibrillose. St. 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 fuscous, apex tinged violet at first, then becoming pale, base subbulbose, 

 fibrillosely-squamulose. Gills fuscous -violaceous, then cinnamon, ad- 

 nexed, or attenuated behind, separating, ventricose, crowded. Flesh 

 whitish, bluish at the apex of the stem. Spores brown, elliptical, 7- 

 8 x 4-5jLt, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia subcylindrical, or ventricose, 60- 

 70 x 9-15/M, "sometimes filled with a dark juice" Rick., fairly abun- 

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



II. No cystidia. 



*St. whitish, or pallid. 



fGills brownish, ochraceous, or cinnamon. 



573. I. perlata Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1162, t. 961. 



Perlata, very broad. 



P. 6-10 cm., ochraceous, longitudinally streaked with darker, fuscous 

 fibrils, disc dark bistre nearly black, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 broadly umbonate; margin incurved. St. 6-11 x 1-5 cm., pallid, 

 darker below, straight, or curved, sometimes twisted, striate, equal, 

 apex mealy. Gills pallid, then pale umber, adnexed, somewhat rounded 

 behind, broad, margin whitish, irregular. Flesh dingy white. Spores 

 reddish brown, elliptical, 10 x 6-7 /z, with a large central gutta. 

 Woods, and under hornbeam. Aug. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



574. I. perbrevis (Weinm.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 434, t. 519. 



Per-brevis, very short. 



P. 1-5 3 cm., fuscous, or rufous, becoming yellowish, somewhat fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtusely umbonate, often depressed round the 

 umbo, fibrillose, or squamulose ; margin fibrillose, often splitting. St. 

 2-2-5 cm. x 3-5 mm., pallid, somewhat attenuated downwards, white- 

 fibrillose, apex pruinose, cortinate. Gills whitish, becoming fuscous, or 

 clay colour, adnexed with a tooth, ventricose, rather distant. Flesh 

 white. Spores brown, elliptic-oblong, 8-9 x 4-5-5/t, apiculate. 

 "Cystidia only on edge of gill, basidia-like, 48-60 x 12-15/z " Rick. 

 Woods, and shady places. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



575. I. squarrosa Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. v, t. 4. 



Squarrosa, rough with scales. 



P. 5-13 mm,, mouse grey with an ochraceous tinge, slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate, or convex, covered with erect, revolute, floccose, darker 

 grey scales especially at the disc, floccosely fibrillose elsewhere ; margin 

 at first involute, white. St. 1-5-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., white with a pinkish 

 tinge, apex pruinose, base white, subbulbose. Gills white, then brown- 

 ish, adnato-sinuate, 2 mm. wide, edge white. Flesh white. Spores 

 greenish-fuscous, elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/z, 1-guttulate. Under willows 

 and alders in a brick pit. July Aug. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



