260 HEBELOMA. HYPHOLOMA 



fibrils, becoming pale. Gills ferruginous, emarginate, broad, scarcely 

 crowded. Flesh whitish, thin at the margin. Spores fuscous, ellip- 

 tical, 9 x 5jit. "Smell of musk" Secretan. Mixed woods, and under 

 firs, and pines. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



780. H. diffractum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 114, fig. 1. 



Diffractum, broken in pieces. 



P. 3-5 cm., tan colour, fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, obtuse, 

 smooth, somewhat dry, at length squamosely broken up. St. 2-5- 

 4 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, subfusiform, attenuated downwards, hollow, 

 squamulose with white flocci above. Gills pallid, then ferruginous, 

 emarginate, ventricose, broad, crowded, dry. Spores ferruginous, 

 "10-12 x 4 5/x" Massee. Smell weak, unpleasant, somewhat of 

 radish. Pine needles in woods. Sept. Rare. 



III. P. scarcely 2-5 cm. broad. Stature that of the Naucoriae. 



781. H. magnimamma Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 114, fig. 2. 



Magnus, large; mamma, breast. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., brick colour, at length becoming pale yellowish, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, with a prominent, breast-shaped umbo, smooth, 

 but becoming somewhat streaky towards the margin. St. 2-5-7 cm. 

 x 23 mm., pale yellowish, becoming pale, equal, or flexuose, often 

 substriate, fibrous, smooth. Gills pallid, then ferruginous, sinuato- 

 adnate, 2-3 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh yellowish, tawny under the 

 cuticle of the p., very thin at the margin. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 broadly elliptical, 9-12 x 5-6 fj,, with a hyaline basal, or subbasal, 

 apiculus, multi-guttulate. Pastures, under oaks, and apple trees. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 H. petiginosum Fr. = Astrosporina petiginosa (Fr.) Rea. 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 



Hypholoma Fr. 

 (i></>?7, a web; \a)/j,a, a fringe.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, firm, or fragile. Stem central, fibrous, or 

 fleshy. Gills sinuate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores purple, 

 fuscous, or cinereous purple; elliptical, subglobbse, pip-shaped, or 

 reniform, smooth, rarely verrucose, with an apical germ-pore. 

 Cystidia present, or absent. Growing on wood, more rarely on the 

 ground, often densely caespitose, or fasciculate. 



*Colour of the tough, smooth, dry (except Hypholoma 

 silaceum) p. bright, not hygrophanous. 



782. H. silaceum (Pers.) Fr. (= Flammuloides sublateritia Schaeff. 

 sec. Quel.) Silaceum, ochraceous. 



