ENTOLOMA 249 



squamulose, base bulbous, solid. Gills red flesh colour, slightly adnexed, 

 3-4 mm. broad. Flesh white, thin. Spores pink, angular, 15//,. Grassy 

 places. Feb. Oct. Uncommon. 



741. E. pulvereum Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 14. 



Pulvereum, dusty. 



P. 5-30 mm., fuliginous, thin, campanulate, then expanded and 

 flattened, densely covered with very minute scales which are erect at 

 the centre, striate at first; margin very slightly incurved. St. 2-5- 

 5 cm. x 23 mm., fuliginous, equal, densely velvety, covered when 

 young with a reddish, rust coloured meal which becomes darker with 

 age. Gills grey, at length dusted with the pinkish ferruginous spores, 

 adnate with a minute sinus, veined, subdistant, exceeding the margin 

 of the p. ; edge irregular, thick, pale or pinkish at first then deep rose 

 colour. Spores pink, irregular, angular, 12-13 x 6/u,, 1-guttulate. 

 Woods, and pastures. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



742. E. dichroum (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 92, fig. 3. 



Siypovv, two coloured. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., violet, then livid mouse colour, somewhat fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, then expanded and plane, obtusely umbonate, squamuloso- 

 fibrillose. St. 3-5 cm. x 2-8 mm., blue, becoming paler at the base, 

 wholly fibrous, fibrillosely-mealy, and sublacunose. Gills white, or 

 pallid, then flesh colour, sinuato-adnexed, crowded, 2-3 mm. wide. 

 Flesh white, tinged with blue. Spores pink, becoming fuscous, 

 "longish, 9-11 x 6-7 p, with a few distinct angles" Rick. Woods, 

 and hilly pastures. June Sept. Uncommon. 



E. sericellum Fr. = Leptonia sericeUa (Fr.) Quel. 



743. E. Thomson!! B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 336, t. 374. Dr Thomson 

 P. 2-5-3 cm., grey, convex, then expanded, more or less umbonate, 



tomentose, adorned with raised, radiating ribs, which form reticulations 

 in the centre. St. 3-5 cm. x 4 mm., paler than the pileus, fibrillose, 

 tomentose. Gills flesh colour, rounded behind, very slightly adnexed, 

 4 mm. broad, rather distant. Flesh mottled, thick at the umbo, thin 

 elsewhere. Spores pink, elliptical, 6 x 3-5/x,. Amongst grass in 

 plantations. Rare. 



III. P. thin, hygrophanous, rather silky when dry, 

 often irregular and repand. 



744. E. clypeatum (Linn.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 337, t. 319, as Entoloma 



clypeum Fr. Clipeatum, furnished with a shield. 



P. 5-8 cm., lurid when moist, grey when dry, variegated, or 



streaked with darker spots, or lines, fleshy, campanulate, then flattened, 



umbonate, fragile. St. 4-8 x -5-1-5 cm., whitish, becoming cinereous, 



