INOCYBE 205 



576. I. vatricosa FT. Fr. Icon. t. 110, fig. 3. 



Vatricosa, with crooked feet. 



P. 1-7 cm., yellowish, becoming whitish with age, slightly fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, or umbonate, viscid when moist, shining 

 when dry; margin obsoletely silky. St. 3-7 cm. x 3-10 mm., white, 

 or greyish, equal, slightly thickened at the white villose base, often 

 curved and contorted, white pulverulent. Gills white, then fuscous, 

 adnexed, broadly emarginate, almost free, broad. Spores brownish, 

 elliptical, 5-6 x 3-3-5^,. Woods, dead stumps, chips, and sawdust. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



**St. coloured. 

 fGills brownish, ochraceous, or cinnamon. 



577. I. Cookei Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 121. 



Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, the eminent English mycologist. 



P. 3-5 cm., yellowish straw colour, becoming lurid yellowish, fleshy, 

 conico-campanulate, then expanded and umbonate, margin at length 

 revolute and split, silky-fibriUose, then rimose. St. 4-7 cm. x 5-7 mm., 

 concolorous, equal, silky fibrillose, base marginately bulbose. Gills 

 whitish cinereous, then yellowish cinnamon, attenuated behind, ad- 

 nexed, crowded, somewhat ventricose, margin white, fimbriate. Flesh 

 whitish straw colour. Spores ochraceous, subreniform, 8-10 x 5-5-5/z. 

 Smell somewhat pleasant when young, becoming somewhat earthy. 

 Fir woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



578. I. mimica Massee. (= Inocybe adequata Britz. sec. Cke.) 



fjLifju/cd, a mimic. 



P. 6-8 cm., yellow-brown, everywhere covered with large, adpressed, 

 slightly darker, fibrous scales, fleshy, campanulate, obtusely umbonate, 

 fibrillose. St. 6-8 x 1 cm., paler than the p., equal, fibrillose. Gills 

 yellow-brown, deeply sinuate, attached to the stem by a very narrow 

 portion, broad. Flesh brownish. Spores brown, subcylindrical, 14- 

 16 x 6-8/x, with an oblique apiculus. Woods. Sept. Rare. 



579. I. rhodiola Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 200, as Inocybe frumen- 

 tacea (Bull.) Bres. poSov, a rose. 



P. 4-8 cm., rufous-chestnut, or fuscous flesh colour, fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then expanded and umbonate, fibrillosely cracked, centre even. 

 St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., vinous, fibrilloso-squamulose, becoming glabrous, 

 apex pallid, subfloccose. Gills white, then yellowish umber, often spotted 

 with brownish umber, sinuato-uncinate, almost free, crowded, edge 

 fimbriate. Flesh white, vinous at the base of the stem. Spores yellowish, 

 subreniform, 12-13 x 6-8/4, or 9-10 x 5-7 p, 1-2-guttulate. Cells on 

 edge of gills, clavate, or subfusoid, 45-60 x 12-15ju,. Smell fruity. 

 Woods, fields, and parks. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



