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801. H. appendiculatum (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 587, t. 547. 



Appendiculatum, having a small appendage. 



P. 58 cm., date brown, then tawny, ochrey pale when dry, fleshy - 

 membranaceous, ovate, then expanded, at length flattened, obtuse, 

 pruinose, sprinkled with a few, fugacious flecks, then smooth, slightly 

 wrinkled when dry; margin appendiculate with the white, fugacious 

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

 pruinose. Gills white, then flesh colour, at length fuscous, subadnate, 

 crowded. Flesh white, very thin. Spores fuscous purple, elliptical, 

 7-8 x 4-4-5ju,. Cystidia cylindrical, often slightly constricted below 

 the apex, base subventricose, 35-45 x 10-13 p. Taste mild. Edible. 

 In troops, or caespitose. Woods, hedgerows, and wood heaps. 

 June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. lanatum B. & Br. Lanatum, woolly. 



Differs from the type in being densely woolly when young, traces of 

 the woolly coat remaining at the apex when the p. is expanded. 



var. flocculosum Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 137. Flocculosum, flocculose. 



Differs from the type in the white squamulose, longitudinally striate, 

 or sulcate, somewhat lobed p., and the striate st. of ten flocculose. Woods. 

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



802. H. catarium Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1180, t. 1176. 



Catarium, belonging to a cat. 



P. 1-5-2-5 cm., ochraceous, then paler, fleshy membranaceous, hemi- 

 spherical, then expanded, smooth, hygrophanous ; margin appendicu- 

 late with the white veil. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, rather 

 shining, base incrassated and white floccose, apex striate. Gills white, 

 then fuscous, adnate, narrow, rather crowded. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores fuscous purple, elliptic-oblong, 6 x 3//,. Gregarious, or sub- 

 caespitose. Amongst grass in parks, and roadsides. Sept. Eare. 



803. H. leucotephrum B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 588, t. 548. 



Xevtf09, white; re^pov, ash-coloured. 



P. 3-7 cm., dark grey, whitish when dry, fleshy, somewhat cam- 

 panulate, then convexo-expanded, wrinkled; margin appendiculate 

 with the white veil. St. 7-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., white, equal, attenu- 

 ated at the base, silky-fibrillose downwards, apex striate, or sulcato- 

 striate. Gills cinereous whitish, then grey, turning black, slightly adnate, 

 3-6 mm. broad. Flesh pallid, becoming white, thick at the disc. Spores 

 cinereous purple, elliptical, 89 x 5/z. Cystidia "on edge of gill sub- 

 cylindrical, constricted-capitate, 30-40 x 6-8 //," Rick. Caespitose. 

 Base of ash trees, and amongst beech leaves, and pine needles. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



