ASTROSPORINA 213 



6 mm., concolorous, apex lilac colour becoming pale, equal, slightly 

 attenuated at the base, fibrillosely striate. Gills white, then ochraceous, 

 margin whitish, sinuato-adnate, 6-7 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh white, becoming reddish in the stem, thin. Spores deep ochraceous, 

 oblong, angular, 10 x 5-G-5//,. Cystidia hyaline, bladder-like, obtuse, 

 42 x 20/A, thin walled, often slightly granular at the apex. Bare 

 ground in frondose woods. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



605. A.fulvella (Bres.) Rea. (= Inocybe fulvella Bres.) Trans. Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. n, t. 8, as Inocybe fulvella Bres. Fulvus, tawny. 



P. 6-12 mm., olivaceous honey colour with the umbo somewhat darker, 

 then becoming yellowish, or fuscous olive with the umbo tawny, conico- 

 campanulate, then expanded, and umbonate, flocculosely silky, 

 glabrous at the centre, somewhat hygrophanous. St. 2-3 cm. x 1- 

 2 mm., lilac, soon changing to rufescent, attenuated downwards, apex 

 white-pruinose. Gills lilac, then cinnamon, rounded behind, and 

 almost free, ventricose, 1-5 mm. wide, subdistant, edge fimbriate. 

 Flesh yellowish, lilac at the apex of the stem and then rufescent. Spores 

 ferruginous, angular, warted, 7-9 x 5-6/A. Cystidia fusiform, ventri- 

 cose, 45-60 x 10-18/A, somewhat fuscous at the apex. Amongst moss. 

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



606. A. Bucknallii (Massee) Rea. (= Inocybe Bucknallii Massee.) 

 Annals of Bot. xvm (1904), t. 32, figs. 5, 6, as Inocybe Bucknalli 

 Massee. Cedric Bucknall, the Bristol mycologist. 



P. 12 cm., brownish, campanulato-convex, fibrillose, disc with a 

 few squamules. St. 2-4 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, equal, or slightly 

 thickened at the base, fibrillose. Gills rusty-brown, adnexed, thick, 

 rather distant, edge minutely fimbriate. Spores irregularly oblong, 

 15-17 x 89/1,, angular, apiculate at one end. Basidia clavate, ex- 

 ceptionally large, 70-80 x 16-18ju,, 4-spored. Cystidia on edge of 

 gill only, clavate, 75-85 x 15-20/x, thin walled. Under bushes. 

 Autumn. Rare. 



607. A. petiginosa (Fr.) Rea. (= Hebeloma petiginosum Fr., Inocybe 

 petiginosa (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 114, fig. 4, as Hebeloma peti- 

 ginosum Fr. Petiginosa, scurfy. 



P. 1-2 cm., fuscous at the gibbous, naked disc, hoary-silky with 

 superficial, closely adpressed fibrils at the circumference, when old 

 rufescent, or becoming yellow, slightly fleshy, conical, then convex, 

 somewhat umbonate. St. 2-55 cm. x 2 mm., brick rufescent, be- 

 coming fuscous, tough, equal, or slightly attenuated at the base, 

 white pulverulent. Gills light yellow, then olivaceous-date-brown, beauti- 

 fully ciliated under a lens, at first slightly adnexed, soon free, ventri- 

 crowded. Flesh cream colour, rufescent in the stem. Spores 





