210 ASTROSPORINA 



margin paler with a slight livid tinge, thin. St. 5 cm. x 4 mm., white, 

 equal, often flexuose, with a mass of white mycelium at the base, 

 slightly striate under a lens and mealy. Gills whitish, then pinkish 

 grey, emarginate, scarcely adnate, ventricose, margin denticulate. 

 Flesh white. Spores bistre-brown, warted, angular, 7-8 x 5-6 /n. 

 Cystidia fusoid, or subventricose, 40-50 x 12-18/>t, fairly abundant. 

 Woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



**Stem coloured. 



594. A. asterospora (Quel.) Rea. (= Inocybe asterospora Quel., Ino- 

 cybe subrimosa Sacc., Clypeus subrimosus Karst.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 430, t. 385, as Inocybe asterospora Quel. 



ao'Trip, star; <nropd, seed. 



P. 2-5 cm., bistre, with brown striae, convex then expanded and 

 umbonate, becoming rimose. St. 5-8 cm. x 6-8 mm., reddish, streaked 

 with brown fibrils, pubescent, equal, base marginately bulbous, cuticle 

 separable. Gills whitish bistre, then cinnamon, emarginate, ventricose, 

 thin. Flesh white. Spores ferruginous, stellately-nodulose, sub- 

 globose, 9-12/M. Cystidia ventricose, 33 x 18/M, abundant. Smell 

 mouldy. Woods, and under trees. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



595. A. fasciata (Cke. & Mass.) Rea. (= Inocybe fasciata Cke. & 

 Massee.) Cke. Illus. no. 1164, 1. 1173, as Inocybe fasciata Cke. & 

 Massee. Fasciata, bound together in bundles. 



Densely caespitose. P. 5-7-5 cm., tawny, disc rufous, campanulato- 

 convex, silky, clad with minute, darker, squarrose scales. St. 5-7-5 cm. 

 x 3-10 mm., pallid, base reddish, equal, or a little attenuated below, 

 fibrillose. Gills pallid, attenuated in front, rounded behind, or slightly 

 sinuate, crowded. Flesh white, reddish towards the base of the stem. 

 Spores fuscous, angular, elliptical, 10 x 6/x. Cystidia ventricose, 

 40-50 x 12-15/n, scanty. Amongst grass. Rare. 



596. A. lanuginosa (Bull.) Schroet. (= Inocybe lanuginosa (Bull.) 



Bres.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 117, as Inocybe lanuginosa Bull. 



Lanuginosa, woolly. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., umber, at length becoming yellow, slightly fleshy, hemi- 

 spherical, or campanulato-convex, then expanded and umbonate, 

 fiocculosely-scaly, disc squarrose with hairy scales. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 2- 

 3 mm., somewhat concolorous, equal, fibrillosely-squamulose', cortina 

 greyish white, soon disappearing. Gills pallid clay colour, then reddish 

 cinnamon, rounded behind, adnexed, then separating, somewhat 

 crowded; margin white, fioccosely crenulate. Flesh pallid. Spores 

 fuscous ochraceous, angular, 10-15 x 8-9/n. Cystidia cylindrical, or 

 clavate, 50-60 x 20-25 /M, somewhat fuscous at the apex. Mossy stumps, 

 especially conifers, "never on the ground" Bres. July Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



