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ferruginous, olivaceous, or fuscous; angular, nodose, verrucose, 

 echinulate, or irregular in shape. Cystidia present, or absent, fusi- 

 form, ventricose, cylindrical, or clavate. Growing on the ground, 

 rarely caespitose. 



I. Cystidia present. 

 *Stem whitish, or pallid. 



587. A. fibrosa (Sow.) Rea. (= Inocybe fibrosa (Sow.) Fr.) Bres. 

 Fung. Trid. t. 56, as Inocybe fibrosa Sow. Fibrosa, fibrous. 



P. 6-10 cm., white, or straw colour, sometimes spotted yellow, fleshy, 

 obtusely campanulate, then expanded and gibbous, or broadly um- 

 bonate, silky, at length cracking; margin deeply split, often lobed. 

 St. 6-10 x 1-5-2-5 cm., white, base at length straw colour, subequal, 

 striate, or somewhat sulcate, apex pruinose. Gills white, becoming 

 cinereous-cinnamon with age, attenuated behind, nearly free, crowded. 

 Flesh white. Spores ochraceous, angular, oblong, 10-13 x 5-7 /i. 

 Cystidia fusoid, 70-90 x 10-16/u, thick walled. Smell foetid. Coni- 

 ferous woods. May Sept. 



588. A. duriuscula Rea. (= Inocybe duriuscula Rea.) Trans. Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. in, t. 3, as Inocybe duriuscula Rea. 



Duriuscula, somewhat hard. 



P. 6-7 cm., fulvous ochraceous, disc becoming pale, fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then expanded and gibbous, floccose, soon longitudinally fibril- 

 lose; margin at length revolute. St. 8x1-5 cm., white, enlarged at 

 the apex and base, firm, striate, apex ribbed with the decurrent teeth of 

 the gills. Gills white, becoming fuscous, sinuato-adnate with a decurrent 

 tooth, 6-8 mm. wide, somewhat crowded. Flesh white, very firm. 

 Spores umber, strongly nodulose, 9-10 x 7-8 p, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 ventricose, 52-60 x 13-15/u, abundant. Woods. Sept. Oct. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



589. A. proximella (Karst.) Rea. (= Inocybe proximella Karst.) 

 Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 2, as Inocybe proximella Karst. 



Proximella, somewhat near. 



P. 2-5 cm., pallid yellow, disc, and especially the umbo, becoming 

 rusty brown, or bay, fleshy, conico-convex, then expanded and umbo- 

 nate, becoming longitudinally fibrillosely cracked. St. 6-8 x -5-1 cm., 

 pallid, slightly narrowed upwards, often attenuated at the base, 

 sometimes wavy, subfibrillose. Gills pallid, then tan, finally brown, 

 adnate, 6-7 mm. wide, crowded, ventricose. Flesh white. Spores fer- 

 ruginous, nodulose, irregularly oblong, 7-10 x 5-7 ft, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia ventricose, 55-70 x 15-24/u,, abundant. On the ground. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



