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margin membranaceous, exceeding the gills. St. 5-8 cm. x 8-16 mm., 

 white, equal, fibrillose at the base, smooth above, straight, or curved 

 and ascending, pellicle separable. Gills tan colour, broadly emarginate, 

 crowded, dry. Flesh watery, white when dry, compact at the disc, very 

 thin at the margin. Spores fuscous, elliptical, 12 x Qfj,. Smell weak, 

 not unpleasant. Taste mild. Edible. Woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



776. H. sacchariolens Quel. Quel. Soc. sc. n. de Rouen,- 1879, t. 1, 



fig. 2. Saccharum, sugar; olens, smelling. 



P. 2-6 cm., whitish, disc buff colour, but the whole surface deepens in 

 colour with age, fleshy, campanulate, then convex, smooth, viscid. 

 St. 4-5 x 1 cm., white, streaked with fawn fibrils below, attenuated 

 above and at the base, striate, silky, apex pruinose. Gills whitish, then 

 buff colour, and finally ferruginous, sinuato-adnate, 6-10 mm. broad, 

 crenate, edge whitish. Flesh yellowish, or somewhat buff, thin at the 

 margin. Spores deep ferruginous, almond-shaped, 10-11 x 7-8 /x, 

 with a hyaline basal apiculus. Smell very peculiar and strong, like 

 that of Entoloma ameides or "of burnt sugar, or orange fiowers" 

 Quel. Woods, heaths, and pastures. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



777. H. nauseosum Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1166, t. 963. 



vav<Tia, sea-sickness. 



P. 2-5-3-5 cm., ochrey-white, fleshy, convex, gibbous, more or less 

 expanded, smooth, viscid. St. 3-5 cm. x 6-10 mm., concolorous, in 

 decay turning black at the base, equal, or attenuated at the base, 

 faintly striate downwards, mealy above. Gills pallid, then clay colour, 

 and at length ferruginous, sinuate, ventricose, 6-10 mm. broad, sub- 

 distant. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 elliptical-fusiform (20 x 10/z Cke.), 12 x 6/z, 1-2-guttulate. Smell 

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



778. H. ischnostylum Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 463, t. 420. 



iV%i>o<?, thin; crrOXo?, a pillar. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., white, or a little pallid at the disc, fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, broadly umbonate, slightly viscid. St. 5 cm. x 3-4 mm., 

 whitish, equal, or a little thickened at the base, smooth. Gills whitish, 

 then clay colour, rounded behind, adnexed, edge slightly serrate. Flesh 

 white, thin at the margin. Spores fuscous, elliptical, 12 x 7-5/u,. 

 Smell none, or with a faint odour of Spiraea. Amongst grass under 

 alders. Sept. Uncommon. 



T79. H. capniocephalum (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 462, t. 419. 



KCLTTVOS, smoke; ice<j>a\r), head. 



P. 4-7-5 cm., pale yellowish, or reddish, disc darker, margin at length 

 ling black, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth. St. 5- 

 cm. x 4-6 mm., whitish, attenuated downwards, striate with rufescent 



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