212 ASTROSPORINA 



601. A. maritima (Fr.) Rea. (= Inocybe maritima Fr.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 414, t. 392, as Inocybe maritima Fr. 



Maritima, pertaining to the sea. 



P. 2-3 cm., fuscous, or mouse colour, becoming hoary when dry, 

 hygrophanous, fleshy, somewhat soft, convex, then flattened, obtuse, or 

 umbonate, flocculosely fibrillose, more or less adpressedly scaly. St. 

 2-4 cm. x 4-6 mm., a little paler than the pileus, equal, fibrillose, at 

 first furnished with a cortina. Grills fuscous-grey, then becoming fer- 

 ruginous, rounded, adnexed, somewhat separating, ventricose. Flesh 

 becoming fuscous-grey. Spores ferruginous, angular, oblong, 9-10 x 6/x, 

 1-guttulate. Cystidia ventricose, 4555 x 12-18ju,. Often caespitose. 

 Sea shores, and sandy ground in woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



602. A. Rennyi (B. & Br.) Rea. (= Inocybe Rennyi B. & Br.) Cke. 

 lUus. no. 442, t. 520, fig. A, as Inocybe Rennyi B. & Br. 



J. Renny, a British mycologist. 



P. 1 '5-2 cm., pale fawn colour, disc brown, hemispherical, slightly 

 fibrillose. St. 3-5 cm. x 3-4 mm., paler than the p., attenuated down- 

 wards, fibrillose. Gills dingy ochraceous, rounded behind, almost free. 

 Spores ochraceous, angular, slightly nodulose, oblong, 11-13 x 7- 

 8/i, pointed at one end. Cystidia fusoid, 40-50 x 12-16/z, scanty. 

 On the ground. 



var. major (Massee) Rea. (= Inocybe Rennyi B. & Br. var. major 



Massee.) Cke. Illus. no. 442, t. 520, fig. B, as Inocybe Rennyi 



B. & Br. var. Major, larger. 



Differs from the type in its larger size, and slightly nodulose spores, 



13-17 x 10/Lt. Fir woods. Nov. 



603. A. sabuletorum (B. & Curt.) Rea. (= Inocybe sabuletorum B. & 

 Curt., and Inocybe lanuginosa Fr. sec. Bataille.) 



Sabuletorum, of sandy places. 



P. 1-3 cm., umber, at length becoming yellowish, slightly fleshy, con- 

 vex, then expanded, obtuse, or somewhat umbonate, velvety, the pile 

 becoming matted together into little squamules, which stand erect at the 

 disc. St. 2-4 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, tough, equal, fibrillosely 

 squamulose, or downy, apex white mealy. Gills clay colour, then fer- 

 ruginous, sinuate, or separating free, thin, ventricose; edge white, 

 minutely fimbriate. Flesh concolorous. Spores ferruginous, angular, 

 9-10 x 6-7 p. Cystidia fusoid, or ventricose, 45-50 x 12-15/z, some- 

 what scanty. Woods. July Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



604. A. fulva Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. Fulvus, tawny. 

 P. 3-4 cm., tawny, darker at the disc, fleshy, convex, then expanded, 



longitudinally adpressedly fibrillose; margin thin. St. 5-6 cm. x 5- 



