ENTOLOMA 251 



748. E. majale Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 94, fig. 2. Majus, the month of May. 

 P. 4-6 cm., somewhat cinnamon, ockraceous pale yellow when dry, 



fleshy-membranaceous, scissile, campanulate, then convex, sub- 

 umbonate, somewhat fragile; margin repand, easily rimoso-incised. 

 St. 7-10 cm. x 4-6 mm., whitish, somewhat compressed, twisted, striate, 

 somewhat fibrillose, often connate at the thickened, white tomentose 

 base. Gills pallid, then flesh-coloured with the rosy spores, free, 

 ventricose, crowded, crenate. Flesh very thin. Spores pink, "sub- 

 spheric, 5-6-angular, 7-10 x 7-8 ft" Lange. Pastures, open woods, 

 and mossy places in fir woods. April Sept. Eare. 



749. E. costatum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 340, t. 320, upper figs. 



Gostatum, ribbed. 



P. 3-8 cm., fuscous-livid, becoming grey when dry, or shining black 

 when scorched by the sun, fleshy-membranaceous, convexo-bullate, undu- 

 lated, irregularly shaped, then rather plane, more or less umbilicate. 

 St. 46 cm. x 48 mm., grey, often compressed, somewhat striate, 

 apex white mealy. Gills pallid, or greyish, then flesh colour, emarginate, 

 5-7 mm. broad, transversely veined with raised ribs, undulate. Flesh 

 grey, becoming white. Spores pink, angular, globose, 6-7 \i, or oblong, 

 9-10 x 7-8/i. Pastures, and heaths, occasionally in woods. May 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



750. E. sericeum (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 340, t. 320, lower figs. 



Sericeum, silky. 



P. 2-4 cm., umber, becoming pale with a silky appearance when dry, 

 fleshy-membranaceous, convex, then plane, obtuse, often umbonate, 

 somewhat repand ; margin involute, striate at first. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 3- 

 6 mm., grey, fibroso-fissile, equal, or thickened upwards, fibrillose, 

 shining. Gills grey, then rufescent, emarginate, slightly adnexed, 

 equally attenuated from the stem to the margin. Flesh umber, becoming 

 whitish. Spores pink, angular, elliptical, 8-^ x 6/x,, 1-guttulate. Smell 

 pleasant, of new meal, or bitter almonds. Pastures, and woods. 

 May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



751. E. venosum Gillet. Venosum, full of veins. 

 P. 3-4 cm., brown, or blackish, disc darker when moist, thin, convex, 



slightly umbonate, silky and shining when dry. St. 46 cm. x 3- 

 4 mm., grey, very fragile, easily splitting, fibrillosely striate, apex 

 slightly squamulose. Gills dirty reddish grey, free, broad, covered with 

 prominent, transverse veins. Spores pink. Smell strong, of new meal. 

 Woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



752. E. nidorosum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 341, t. 321. Nidorosum, reeking. 

 P. 3-7 cm., fawn cinereous, livid, silky shining when dry, sub- 



membranaceous, convex, then expanded, at length often concave, 



