266 HYPHOLOMA 



white, tender, fugacious. Gills pallid, then umber, adnexed, almost 

 free, ventricose, crowded. Flesh white, very thin. Spores fuscous 

 purple, reniform, 78 x 3-^/z, 1 2-guttulate. Cystidia "on surface 

 of gill sparse, flask-shaped, on edge of gill vesiculose, 45-55 x 12- 

 15/i " Rick. Solitary. Base of birch, and elm trees. Parks. Sept. 

 Rare, (v.v.) 



****P. covered with floccose, superficial, fugacious scales. 



798. H. cascum Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 584, t. 544. Cascum, old. 

 P. 4-8 cm., livid grey, tan whitish when dry, fleshy, oval, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, covered when young with superficial, white, fugacious 

 scales, then smooth, slightly wrinkled when dry, disc persistently 

 even; margin appendiculate with the white, squamulose veil. St. 

 7-5-10 cm. x 4-6 mm,, white, equal, fragile, fibrillose, apex white- 

 mealy. Gills grey, then black fuscous, rounded-adnexed, ventricose, 

 4-8 mm. broad, arid, fragile. Flesh white, thin. Spores purple, ellip- 

 tical, 7-8 x 4-5/x. Cystidia "fusiform-pointed, 40-50 x 9-13/x, 

 somewhat thick walled " Rick. Taste bitter. Coniferous woods, and 

 pastures. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



H. punctulatum (Kalchbr.) Cke. = Stropharia punctulata (Kalchbr.) 

 Fr. 



*****P. smooth, hygrophanous, margin appendiculate with the veil. 



799. H. lanaripes Cke. (= Hypholoma appendiculatum Bull. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 585, t. 545. Lana, wool; pes, foot. 



P. 3-6 cm., pallid, fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, hygro- 

 phanous, squamose with superficial scales arising from the breaking up 

 of the cuticle', margin appendiculate with the fugacious veil. St. 

 5-7-5 cm. x 4 mm., white, equal, fragile, subfibrillose, base tomentose. 

 Gills whitish, then purplish brown, reaching the st., crowded. Flesh 

 pallid, thin. Soil in conservatories. Subcaespitose. June July. 

 Uncommon. 



800. H. Candolleanum Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 586, t. 546. 



Alphonse de Candolle. 



P. 5-10 cm., date brown, then white, disc ochraceous, fleshy acorn- 

 shaped, then campanulate, soon convex, at length flattened, obtuse, 

 unequal, smooth; margin appendiculate with the white, at length 

 fuscous veil. St. 47-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., white, somewhat thickened at 

 the base, fragile, fibrillose, apex striate. Gills violaceous, then fuscous 

 cinnamon, edge at first whitish, rounded-adnexed, then separating, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thin. Spores brownish violet, "elliptical, 

 8 x 4/Lt " Karst. Cystidia "only on edge of gill, subcylindrical or sub- 

 ventricose, 30-45 x 9-10/z" Rick. Taste mild. Edible. In troops, 

 or subcaespitose. Woods and stumps. April Nov. Common. 



