256 HEBELOMA 



765. H. strophosum Fr. o-rpo^o?, a belt. 

 P. 2-4 cm., bay, white and silky from the veil at the margin, fleshy, 



fragile, convex, then plane, subumbonate, viscid when wet, then dry. 

 St. 2-5-5 cm. x 6 mm., whitish, at length becoming fuscous downwards, 

 equal, fragile, often curved at the base, clothed with the white silky veil 

 which forms an apical ring. Ring white, floccose, reflexed. Gills flesh 

 colour, then clay colour, slightly adnexed, leaving a wide, bare space 

 at the apex of the st., ventricose, 4-8 mm. broad, plane. Flesh watery 

 white, thin at the margin. Spores pale cinnamon, elliptical, 8-9 x 5/x, 

 1-guttulate. Cystidia "only on the edge of the gill, clavate-filament- 

 ous, 40-50 x 5-7 /x,, thin walled" Rick. Bare soil, and grassy places. 

 Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



766. H. mesophaeum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 452, t. 411. 



/ieo-o?, middle; fyaibv, dusky. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., pale yellowish, or becoming pale, disc date brown, fleshy, 

 conical, then convex, then plane, or depressed and darker at the disc, 

 viscid, smooth. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4 mm., whitish, then ferruginous, 

 tough, equal, fibrillose, base becoming fuscous, apex pruinose. Cortina 

 manifest, thin, fugacious. Gills clay ferruginous, rounded, or emargi- 

 nate, thin, plane, arid, crowded. Flesh greyish, becoming white, thin 

 at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/z, with 

 a large central gutta, roughish. Cystidia on edge of gill, " clavate- 

 filamentous, rarely fusiform-filamentous, 50-70 x 5-9 /x, thin walled" 

 Rick. Smell faint, sometimes of radish. Taste acrid. Woods, especially 

 coniferous woods, and charcoal heaps. Sept. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 

 var. holophaeum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 113, fig. 3. 



6X05, entirely; <f>aiov, dusky. 



Differs from the type in the umbonate p. being entirely dark fuscous, 

 in the st. becoming fuscous and subannulate with the cortinate veil, and 

 in the gills being slightly sinuate. 



var. minus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 453, t. 412. Minus, smaller. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size. Common along with the 

 type, (v.v.) 



767. H. subcollariatum B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 454, t. 506, as a var. 



Sub, somewhat; collariatum, having a collar. 

 P. 2-5 cm., pallid, disc subfuscous, fleshy, convex, then more or less 

 expanded, slightly glutinous, the floccose veil soon vanishing. St. 

 5 cm. x 4 mm., pale, brown at the base, often flexuose, pulverulent. 

 Gills clay colour, edge shining white, very slightly rounded behind, 

 broadly adnate, soon separating from the st. and forming a short inter- 

 rupted collar, ventricose, 4-6 mm. broad. Spores pale, ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 12-13 x 6/i, 1-guttulate. On naked soil. May Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



