214 ASTROSPORINA. TRICHOLOMA 



olivaceous, angular, warted, oblong, 8-9 x 5-6 /z. Cystidia fusiform, 

 48-65 x 9-10/i. Beech woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



II. No cystidia. 



608. A. margaritispora (Berk.) Eea. (= Inocybe margaritispora Berk.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 432, t. 505, as Inocybe margaritispora. 



Hapyapirris, a pearl; (nropd, seed. 



P. 3-5 cm., fawn colour, or pale yellowish-brown, campanulate, then 

 expanded and broadly umbonate, undulating, silky, clad with ad- 

 pressed fibrillose scales. St. 6-10 cm. x 5-8 mm., pallid, equal, fibril- 

 lose. Gills pallid, reaching the stem, scarcely adnate. Flesh yellowish. 

 Spores ochraceous, coarsely warted, subglobose, 8/z. On the ground. 

 Oct. Rare. 



III. No record given in the diagnosis whether cystidia 

 are present or not. 



609. A. plumosa (Bolt.) Rea. (= Inocybe plumosa (Bolt.) Fr.) Boud. 

 Icon. t. 118, as Inocybe plumosa (Bolt.) Fr. 



Plumosa, feathered. 



P. 3-5 cm., dark fuliginous, campanulate, then expanded, umbo- 

 nate, fibrillose, squamulose with recurved scales especially at the darker 

 disc. St. 4-6 cm. x 48 mm., concolorous, squamulosely fibrillose, apex 

 naked. Gills concolorous, adnate, fairly wide. Flesh pallid, concolorous 

 under the pellicle of the pikus and stem. Spores olivaceous, or fuliginous, 

 angular, 8-12 x 5-7 /A. Pine woods. Aug. Nov. Uncommon. 



A. leucocephala (Boud.) Rea. (= Inocybe leucocephala Boud.) Massee 

 makes this a synonym for Astrosporina infida (Peck) Rea, but 

 this requires confirmation. 



A. hiulca (Fr.) Rea. (= Inocybe hiulca (Fr.) Bres.) This Astrosporina 

 has erroneously been recorded as British, but the specimens 

 should have been referred to Inocybe Godeyi Gill. 



***Gills sinuate. 



Spores white. 



Tricholoma Fr. 



(6pi%, hair; Xw/ia, fringe.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, margin incurved. Stem central, fleshy. Gills 

 sinuate, sinuato-adnate, or decurrent by a tooth. Spores white, 

 rarely pinkish, or yellowish in the mass ; elliptical, oval, pip-shaped, 

 globose, subglobose, or oblong; smooth, punctate, verrucose, or 

 echinulate, continuous. Cystidia present, or absent. Growing on the 

 ground, very rarely on wood, sometimes forming large rings. 



