206 INOCYBE 



580. I. hirsute (Lasch) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 86, fig. 2. 



Hirsuta, bristly. 



P. 1-4 cm., fuscous, or ochraceous fuscous, disc sometimes tinged with 

 green, slightly fleshy, conico-campanulate, then expanded, and 

 acutely or obtusely umbonate, squarrose with fasciculato-pilose scales, 

 margin fibrillose, fimbriate. St. 4-9 cm. x 2-6 mm., concolorous, base 

 verdigris, somewhat equal, or somewhat thickened at the base, tough, 

 fibrillose, apex white floccoso-scaly. Gills pallid, then fuscous cinnamon, 

 adnate, crowded, narrow, edge whitish, fimbriate. Flesh pallid, be- 

 coming faintly tinged with red on exposure to the air, greenish in the 

 stem. Spores ochraceous, oblong pip-shaped, 9-11 x 4-5/x. Woods. 

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



581. I. calamistrata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 106, fig. 2. 



Calamistrata, curled with the curling-iron. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., fuscous, slightly fleshy, campanulate, obtuse, margin 

 at first bent inwards, often repand, at length flattened, everywhere 

 squarrose-scaly, St. 4-9 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, base dark azure 

 blue, rigid, tough, equal, somewhat rooting, squarrose throughout with 

 rigid, recurved scales. Gills white, then ferruginous, adnexed, separating, 

 crowded, broad, edge whitish, somewhat serrated. Flesh reddish, 

 azure blue at the base of the stem. Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 10- 

 11 x 6/i. Smell strong. Pine, and fir woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



I. echinata (Roth) Cke. = Lepiota haematosperma (Bull.) Boud. 

 tfGills tinged olive. 



582. I. destricta Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 121. Destricta, stripped off. 

 P. 4-8 cm., livid violet tinged brownish, fleshy, campanulate, covered 



longitudinally with darker fibrils, then torn into scales, rimosely cracked. 

 St. 5-10 x 1-1-5 cm., concolorous, covered with darker fibrils, apex 

 mealy. Gills olivaceous, uncinately adnate, narrow, 4 mm. wide. 

 Flesh whitish violaceous, deeper coloured under the cuticle, reddish at 

 the base of the stem. Spores olivaceous, often slightly curved, oblong, 

 11-13 x 5-5-7 p,, multi-guttulate. Cystidia none 1 . Woods, and under 

 poplars. July Nov. Uncommon. 



583. I. fastigiata (Schaefi.) Fr. (= Inocybe Curreyi Berk. sec. Massee.) 

 Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 57. Fastigiata, having a gable. 



P. 3-7 cm., straw colour, yellow fuscous, sometimes fuscous brown, 

 disc ochraceous, or livid-fulvous, fleshy, conico-campanulate, obtusely, 

 or acutely umbonate, longitudinally fibrillose and cracked, rarely ad- 

 pressedly scaly; margin sometimes lobed. St. 4-9 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 pallid, becoming fuscous, equal, slightly enlarged downwards, minutely 

 fibrillose, often twisted with age. Gills yellow, then olivaceous, sinuato- 

 1 Massee and Ricken have a different plant in view as they describe cystidia. 



