ENTOLOMA 245 



724. E. placenta (Batsch) Fr. (= Entoloma phaeocephalum (Bull.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 321, t. 314. Placenta, a flat cake. 



P. 4 cm., brown, fleshy, convex then flattened, umbonate, orbicular, 

 moist when damp. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-6 mm., brown, wholly fibrous, 

 equal, fibrilloso-striate. Gills whitish, then pallid flesh colour, emargi- 

 nato-adnexed, crowded, rather thick. Flesh becoming pale, thin. 

 Spores pink, globose, S/A. Taste becoming acrid. Hedgerows, and 

 damp places. April Oct. Rare. 



725. E. helodes Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 322, t. 339. eXo?, a marsh. 

 P. 3-6 cm., varying cinereous, fuliginous, and at the same time 



becoming purple, slightly fleshy, convex, then rather plane, tough, 

 umbonate, often depressed round the umbo, often as if variegated 

 with tiger-spots; margin spreading, sometimes striate. St. 5-7-5 cm. 

 x 6 mm., cinereous-fibrillose, becoming pallid cinereous, fragile, equal, 

 or slightly thickened at the base, sometimes twisted. Gills white, then 

 flesh colour, obtusely adnate, 6 mm. broad, subdistant. Flesh pallid, 

 thin. Spores pink, subglobose, 10/z, coarsely warted. Smell of new 

 meal, taste watery. Heathy pastures, and bogs. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common. 



726. E. Batschianum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 325, t. 326. 



A. J. G. C. Batsch, author of Elenchus Fungorum. 

 P. 1-4 cm., dark fuscous, ox fuliginous black, slightly fleshy, viscid, 

 shining when dry, slightly convex, scarcely umbonate, then depressed ; 

 margin at first manifestly involute. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4-10 mm., grey, 

 moderately tough, wholly fibrous, equal, or attenuated at both ends, 

 slightly striate with adpressed fibrils. Gills whitish, then cinereous, 

 or -fuliginous, narrowed behind, wholly adnexed at the apex, crowded, 

 becoming subdistant. Flesh yellowish. Spores pink, angular, sub- 

 globose, 6-9 x 6-7 /x. On the ground, and among fir needles in damp 

 places. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



727. E. Bloxamii Berk. (= Entoloma madidum (Fr.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 326, t. 327. Rev. A. Bloxam, a British mycologist. 



P. 2-10 cm., blackish-blue, compact, campanulate, very obtuse, 

 somewhat lobed, moist, slightly silky. St. 3-8 cm. x 12-15 mm., 

 concolorous, base white, obtuse, slightly attenuated upwards, fibrillose. 

 Gills yellowish, then pale pink, attenuated behind, or slightly adnexed, 

 moderately broad. Flesh white, bluish under the cuticle, very thick in 

 the centre. Spores pink, subglobose, minutely warted, 8 9 jit. Heaths, 

 and pastures. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. triste Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 92. Triste, gloomy. 



Differs from the type in its blackish grey slate colour. 



