250 ENTOLOMA 



wholly fibrous, equal, fragile, longitudinally fibrillose, apex pulverulent. 

 Gills whitish, or dingy, becoming red-pulverulent with the spores, 

 rounded-adnexed, separating free, 4-8 mm. broad, ventricose, sub- 

 distant, edge serrulate. Flesh dark, becoming white, thin. Spores 

 pink, angular, globose, 7-9 or 89 x 6 ?//,, 1-guttulate. Taste some- 

 what acid. Edible. Woods, gardens, pastures, and waste places. 

 Caespitose, or solitary. April Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



745. E. nigrocinnarnomeum Kalchbr. (= Pluteus umbrosus (Pers.) 



Fr. sec. Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 11, fig. 1. 



Niger, black; cinnamomeum, cinnamon. 



P. 5-7 cm., umber brown, becoming blackish, thin, tough, convex, 

 then flattened and depressed round the somewhat prominent umbo, 

 rather silky and shining; margin incurved, often splitting. St. 3- 

 4 cm. x 58 mm., grey, becoming tawny, fibrillose, often twisted. 

 Gills reddish cinnamon, adnexed, rounded behind, soon seceding from 

 the stem, 6-8 mm. broad, rather distant. Flesh darkish, becoming 

 yellowish. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 11-13 x 7-8 /x, 1-guttulate. 

 Smell pleasant, of new meal. Pastures, and heaths. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



746. E. rhodopolium Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 338, t. 342. 



p68ov, rose; Tro\iov, grey. 



P. 3-12 cm., fuscous, or livid, becoming pale, isabelline-livid, silky- 

 shining when dry, slightly fleshy, campanulate, then expanded and 

 subumbonate, or gibbous, at length somewhat plane, and sometimes 

 depressed, fibrillose when young, then smooth ; margin bent inwards, 

 and when larger undulated. St. 5-10 x -5-1-5 cm., white, equal, or 

 attenuated upwards, slightly striate, apex white pruinose. Gills white, 

 then rose colour, adnate, then separating, somewhat sinuate, flexuose. 

 Flesh white, darkish under the cuticle of the p. Spores pink, angular, 

 elliptical, 8-9 x 7-8/*, 1-guttulate. Smell like new meal, or burnt 

 sugar, or none. Woods. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



747. E. pluteoides Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 91, fig. 2. 



Pluteus, the genus Pluteus; etSo<?, like. 



P. 2-5-8 cm., whitish grey, becoming dirty yellowish when dry, slightly 

 fleshy, scissile, convex, then expanded, obtuse, slightly fibrillose at 

 first, then smooth. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., white, becoming yellow 

 when touched, rigid, equal, straight, or curved and ascending, covered 

 with a white, fibrillose, subtomentose cuticle, base swollen, villose, 

 commonly obliquely and shortly rooting. Gills white, then flesh 

 colour, emarginato-adnexed, crowded, attenuated in front. Flesh 

 dark. Spores pink. Taste mild. On fir stumps and rotten wood. 

 Rare. 



