264 HYPHOLOMA 



**P. naked, viscid. 



792. H. incomptum Massee. Incomptum, unadorned. 

 P. 7-5-10 cm., deep bay brown, orange-tawny when dry, campanulate, 



then expanded, broadly gibbous, viscid, silky when dry; margin 

 usually flexuose. St. 6-7-5 cm. x 16 mm., pale above, dark ferruginous 

 below, equal, covered with minute, spreading, ferruginous, fibrillose 

 squamules, mixed with primrose yellow tomentum. Gills pallid, then 

 deep olive, finally clouded with purple from the spores, adnate, slightly 

 rounded behind, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded, thin. Flesh tawny, 2 mm. 

 thick. Spores purplish, obliquely elliptical, 8 x 3-5/i. Stumps. 

 Sept. Oct. Rare. 



793. H. oedipus Cke. Cke. Elus. no. 579, t. 587, fig. A. 



oiSiTrovs, swollen footed. 



P. 12-5 cm., umber, or brownish olivaceous, paler, and subochraceous 

 at the striate margin, which exceeds the gills, fleshy, turbinate, or hemi- 

 spherical, then convex, glutinous, smooth, dull; margin at first ap- 

 pendiculate with the veil. St. 3-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., pallid, tawny at the 

 base, attenuated upwards from the bulbous base, apex pruinose, fibril- 

 lose below the ring. Ring whitish, median, torn, fugacious. Gills 

 whitish, then umber, broadly adnate, sometimes with a minute decur- 

 rent tooth, plane, edge somewhat granular, or crenulate, often whitish. 

 Flesh brownish, becoming white, thick at the disc. Spores dark brown, 

 elliptical oblong, 9-10 x 5-6/t. Sticks, and dead leaves. Solitary, or 

 caespitose. Feb. Rare. 



***P. silky with innate fibrils, or streaked. 



794. H. lacrymabundum Fr. non Quel. (= Stropharia cotonea QueL, 

 Hypholoma storea Fr. var. caespitosum Cke., Hypholoma hypo- 

 xanthum Phill. & Plowr., Hypholoma pseudostorea W. G. Sm.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 134, fig. 1. Lacrymabundum, weeping. 



P. 4-7-5 cm., whitish, becoming fuscous and pale round the margin, 

 fleshy, convex, obtuse, piloso-scaly, the innate scales darker; margin 

 appendiculate with the veil. St. 5-11 cm. x 6-12 mm., whitish, then 

 fuscous whitish, slightly attenuated upwards from the somewhat 

 thickened base, which is often yellowish, curved, fibrillosely scaly, apex 

 smooth. Cortina white, separate, fibrillose. Gills whitish, then fuscous 

 purple, adnate, 6 mm. broad, crowded, edge whitish, often distilling 

 drops in wet weather. Flesh white, greyish when moist, soft. Spores 

 fuscous purple, elliptical, 7-9 x 4-4-5/z. Cystidia cylindrical, or flask- 

 shaped, base ventricose, apex obtuse, 5-6/x in diam., 28-40 x 8-18/z. 

 Taste pleasant. Densely caespitose. On stumps, and on the ground. 

 Beech, birch, and coniferous woods. Sept. Dec. Notuncommon. (v.v.) 



795. H. pyiotrichum (Holmsk.) Fr. (= Stropharia pyrotricha(Holmsk.) 



Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 583, t. 564. irvp, fire; 0pi^ t hair. 



