258 HEBELOMA 



straight, twisted with spiral fibres, base with, an ovately, villose bulb 

 when growing amongst fir leaves, adpressedly fibrillose, apex white 

 mealy. Gills pale cinnamon, rounded, with a small decurrent tooth, 

 6 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, thick at the disc. Spores 

 brownish ferruginous, elliptical, 8-10 x 5/x. Smell very strong of 

 radish. Woods, especially coniferous woods, and heaths. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



772. H. longicaudum (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 458, t. 415. 



Longus, long; cauda, a tail. 



P. 4-12 cm., clay colour, becoming whitish, disc sometimes becoming 

 fuscous, fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, at length repand, 

 smooth, viscid; margin whitish, pruinose. St. 8-11 x 1-2 cm., white, 

 at length becoming tawny at the base, fragile, equal, or thickened at the 

 base, obsoletely fibrillose, apex mealy. Gills white clay, then cinnamon, 

 arcuato-adnate, 6 mm. broad, crowded, edge serrulate, somewhat 

 dotted. Flesh white, soft, watery, thin at the margin. Spores tawny 

 ochraceous, oblong elliptical, 11-12 x 6/i, minutely verrucose. 

 Cystidia "on edge of gill long, filamentous-clavate, 60-90 x 6-8^" 

 Eick. Smell faint, not unpleasant. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, 

 especially coniferous woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



773. H. radicatum (Cke.) Maire. (= Hebeloma elatum Quel. non 

 Batsch sec. Maire.) Cke. Illus. no. 459, t. 416, as Hebeloma 

 longicaudum Fr. var. radicatum Cke. Radicatum, rooting. 



P. 3-10 cm., ochraceous fiesh colour, whitish at the margin, convex, 

 gibbous, glutinous. St. 7-11 x -5-1 cm., white, becoming brownish, 

 fusiform, rooting, soft, twisted, fibrillose, villose, mealy at the apex. 

 Gills pale fiesh colour, then brownish, adnate by a tooth, undulate. 

 Flesh white, thick, soft. Spores fuscous ferruginous, elliptical, 10 x 5/x. 

 Smell of radish, or of honey, like that of Pholiota radicosa. Taste bitter. 

 Caespitose. Coniferous woods. Sept. Rare, (v.v.) 



774. H. lugens (Jungh.) Fr. Lugens, mourning. 

 P. 4-7-5 cm., brown, becoming somewhat yellow, fleshy, convex, then 



plane, gibbous, often repand and irregular, smooth, subviscid. St. 

 4-7-5 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, shining, subbulbous, fibrillosely striate, 

 apex white mealy. Gills pallid, then ferruginous, somewhat free, 

 fragile, 4 mm. broad, edge crenulate, darker. Flesh white. Spores 

 "10 x 6/x," Massee. Smell strong. In troops. Woods, especially 

 beech. Sept. Oct. Rare. 

 H. truncatum (Schaeff.) Fr. = Tricholoma truncatum (Schaeff.) Quel. 



775. H. nudipes Fr. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 14, fig. 3. 



Nudus, naked; pes, foot. 



P. 4-7 cm., pale tan, or clay colour, fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 obtuse, unequal, smooth, slightly viscid, scarcely perceptibly streaked ; 



