HEBELOMA 255 



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colour and ferruginous, sinuate, thin, arid, crowded. Flesh whitish, 

 then tawny. Spores "pale dirty colour under the microscope, sub- 

 fusiform, 9-11 x 4-5 /x, minutely punctate. Cystidia only on the 

 edge of the gill, filamentous-clavate, 36-40 x 3-5/x" Rick. Smell 

 faint. Coniferous woods. Feb. Oct. Rare. 



762. H. claviceps Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 451, t. 410. 



Clavus, a nail; caput, head. 



P. 2-4 cm., yellowish white, umbo darker, fleshy, convex, then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, or gibbous, viscid, naked ("more or less scaly, and 

 fibrillose" Gillet). St. 5-7 cm. x 4-6 mm., white, brownish at the base, 

 equal, white mealy. Gills pallid, then ochraceous brownish, emarginate, 

 arid, crowded. Flesh pale, yellowish under the cuticle of the p., thick 

 at the disc. Spores "reddish under the microscope, almond-shaped, 

 10-12 x 6-7 ft, roughish. Cystidia on edge of gill remarkably long, 

 filamentous-clavate, 75-90 x 6-12ju" Rick. Woods, especially beech. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



763. H. punctatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 113, fig. 1. Punctatum, dotted. 

 P. 2-5 cm., tan colour, disc umber, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, 



convex, soon plane, disc obtuse, or gibbous, viscoso-papiUose, at length 

 depressed at the centre; margin white, superficially silky with the fibril- 

 lose veil. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-8 mm., pallid, equal, flexuose, dry, silky- 

 fibrillose with the adpressed veil, apex white pruinose. Cortina white, 

 fugacious. Gills pallid, then pale ferruginous, or brownish, arcuato- 

 adnate, narrowed behind, slightly ventricose, narrow, 4-6 mm. broad, 

 plane, crowded. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores " almond-shaped, 

 10-12 x 5-6 fjL, rough, with a thick membrane. Cystidia on edge of 

 gill short, filamentous, 30-36 x 3-4^,, filled with yellow juice" Rick. 

 Smell faint, not unpleasant. Gregarious. Pine woods. Sept. Un- 

 common. 



764. H. versipelle Fr. Versipelle, changeable in appearance. 

 P. 2-5-8 cm., reddish tan, becoming pale at the disc, then dingy tan 



and opaque when old, fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, at first covered 

 with a tenacious, glutinous pellicle, then becoming dry; margin at first 

 covered with glued white-silky, villose down, then smooth. St. 5-8 cm. 

 x 4-6 mm., white, becoming fuscous at the base, tough, equal, at first 

 remarkably white-silky with the evident cortina, then longitudinally 

 fibrillosely striate, and easily splitting up into fibres, white mealy 

 above the ring formed by the cortina. Gills whitish, then clay cinnamon, 

 rounded, arid, 6-10 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, becoming 

 fuscous in the st. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 8-12 x 6-7 /u,, 

 1-2-guttulate, rough. Smell faint, not unpleasant. Subcaespitose. 

 Grassy places, and among fir needles. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



