246 ENTOLOMA 



728. E. Parrahii Massee & Crossland. Naturalist, 1904, t. 1, figs. 1-4. 



John Farrah, F.L.S. 



P. 5-6 cm., blackish-blue, cylindrico- ovate, then campanulate and 

 somewhat repand, umbonate, fibrilloso-silky; margin pallid. St. 6- 

 7 x 11-5 cm., concolorous, ventricose, base white. Grills salmon 

 colour, sinuato-adnexed, broad, ventricose, somewhat distant. Spores 

 pink, elliptical, smooth, 10 x 4 5/z. Cystidia cuspidate, ventricose, 

 50-60 x 12-15/A. Taste mild. Pastures. Sept. Uncommon. 



729. E. ardosiacum (Bull.) Fr. (= Entoloma nitidum Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 327, t. 328. apSeiv, to water. 



P. 25 cm., steel-blue-fuscous, becoming blackish when young, and 

 cinereous when older, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, 

 often slightly depressed at the disc. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-6 mm., steel- 

 blue, slightly attenuated upwards, easily splitting into fibres. Gills 

 white, or grey, then flesh colour, free, broad, ventricose, attenuated 

 behind, crowded, edge uneven. Flesh white, bluish under the cuticle of 

 the p. Spores pink, angular, subglobose, 8-10 x 6-8/u, 1-guttulate. 

 Moist meadows, and bogs. July Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



730. E. madidum Fr. (= Entoloma Bloxamii Berk. sec. Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 91, fig. 3. Madidum, soaked. 



P. 2-6 cm., blackish violet when young, fuliginous when old, fleshy, 

 campanulate, then convex, viscid in wet weather, shining when dry; 

 margin inflexed, thin, slightly striate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4-10 mm. at 

 the white base, x 4-6 mm. at the apex, violet, thickened in a clavate 

 manner below, fleshy fibrous, surface fibrillose, apex naked. Gills 

 greyish white, slightly adnexed, almost free, ventricose, watery, soft. 

 Flesh white, darkish under the cuticle of the pileus. Spores pink, globose, 

 angular, 6-8/A. Smell strong, somewhat like that of Russula foetens. 

 In pastures, and amongst leaves. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



731. E. liquescens Cke. (= Psilocybe spadiceo-grisea (Schaeff.) Fr. sec. 

 Boud.) Cke. Illus. no. 328, t. 581. Liquescens, dissolving. 



P. 5-6 cm., yellowish ochre, disc reddish brown, convex, then plane, 

 broadly umbonate, margin thin, flexuose. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 white, equal, flexible. Gills white, then pale dirty lilac, free, crowded, 

 deliquescent. Flesh white, thin. Spores pink, subglobose, irregular, 

 7-8 fj,. On the ground under trees. April. 



732. E. ameides B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 329, t. 341. 



d/4et8?79, gloomy. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., pale reddish grey, irregular, broadly campanulate, 

 thin, gibbous, centre polished; margin white- flocculent, at length 

 smooth, silky-shining, undulated. St. 3-4 cm. x 5-10 mm., whitish, 



