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590. A. praetervisa (Quel.) Schroet. (= Inocybe praetervisa Quel.) 

 Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 5, as Inocybe praetervisa Quel. 



Praetervisa, overlooked. 



P. 2-6 cm., fawn, generally darker at the margin, conico-campanu- 

 late, then expanded, umbonate, or gibbous, often splitting at the 

 margin with age, slightly viscid, fibrillose, disc glabrous, soon longi- 

 tudinally virgate. St. 4-7 cm. x 4-8 mm., white, then pale straw colour, 

 equal, base bulbous, apex pruinose. Gills white, then dirty cinnamon, 

 attenuated behind, adnexed, almost free, narrow, 3 mm. wide, 

 crowded; edge white, fimbriate. Flesh white. Spores dark brownish in 

 the mass, ochraceous under the microscope, angular, 9-11 x 5-6 /x, 

 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia fusiform, ventricose, 55-75 x 18-30/u,, some- 

 what fuscous at the apex, "sometimes with olive granular contents" 

 Rick. On the ground under conifers. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



591. A. lanuginella Schroet. Lanuginella, somewhat floccose. 

 P. 1-5-3 cm., tawny, or greyish brown, campanulato-convex, then 



plane, obtusely umbonate, fibrillose, cracked ("fibrils septate, apical 

 cell 35-40 x 8-llju, with rounded ends" Schroeter). St. 1-5- 

 5 cm. x 1-5-5 mm., pallid, apex at first delicately tinged with lilac, 

 base brownish, equal, fibrillose. Gills pallid, then cinnamon, 2-3 mm. 

 wide, slightly adnexed, somewhat crowded, edge fimbriate. Flesh 

 white, tinged reddish under the cuticle of the pileus and stem, thick at the 

 disc, thin at the margin of the pileus, firm. Spores cinnamon in the 

 mass, oblong, obtusely angular, 8-11 x 5-7 /*. Cystidia hyaline, 

 either fusiform, ventricose, obtuse at the apex, muriculate or not, 

 40-70 x 15-23 /LI, or acicular and acute. On the ground in oak woods. 

 Aug. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



592. A. infida (Peck) Rea. (= Agaricus (Hebeloma) infidus Peck, 

 Inocybe umbratica Quel.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 58, fig. 2, as 

 Inocybe commixta Bres. Infida, unsafe. 



Entirely white. P. 2-3 cm., fleshy, conico-campanulate, then ex- 

 panded and umbonate, silky-fibrillose ; margin often split. St. 3- 

 4 cm. x 3-6 mm., minutely pruinose, equal, apex mealy, base bulbous. 

 Gills white, then greyish-cinnamon, free, very crowded, edge minutely 

 fimbriate. Flesh white, somewhat straw colour at the base of the 

 stem. Spores ochraceous, angular, globose-oblong, 9-10 x 6-7 p. 

 Cystidia fusiform or subventricose, somewhat fuscous at the apex, 

 40-45 x 12-14/t. Smell earthy, strong. Taste mild. Coniferous woods. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



593. A. trechispora (Berk.) Rea. (= Hebeloma trechisporum Berk.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 443, t. 403, upper figs., as Inocybe trechispora 

 Berk. Tpa^vs, rough; <nropd, seed. 



P. 1-52-5 cm., whitish, or cinereous, umbo tawny, submembrana- 

 ceous, convex, strongly umbonate, viscid at first, then dry and silky; 



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