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margin often undulate. St. 1-2-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., reddish yellow, or 

 pale, equal, or attenuated downwards, slightly fibrillose. Gills con- 

 colorous, becoming white mealy, adnate, with a very slight tooth, broad, 

 often connected by veins. Flesh, pinkish, very thin. Spores white, 

 globose, 8-10/z, echinulate. Charcoal heaps, roadsides, and bare soil 

 in woods. Aug. Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



888. L. bella (Pers.) B. & Br. (= Clitocybe bella (Pers.) Fr. ; Collybia 

 bella (Pers.) Quel.) Bella, lovely. 



P. 3-5 cm., dark yellow, or golden, sometimes rufescent, sprinkled 

 with darker, or orange coloured squamules, becoming pale, somewhat 

 fleshy, pliant, convex, then expanded, depressed at the disc, then 

 undulato-repand. St. 5 cm. x 4-6 mm., bright yellow, or becoming 

 yellow, tough, equal, fibrous, rivulose with the fibrils. Gills yellow, then 

 rufescent and white mealy, adnate, then decurrent with a tooth, very 

 broad, distant, connected by veins, sometimes branched. Spores white, 

 subglobose, 7 x 5-7^,, minutely warted. Smell foetid. On decaying 

 coniferous stumps. Sept. Rare. 



889. L. nana Massee. Massee, Kew Bull. (1913), t. to face p. 195, 



figs. 17-20. vdvvos, dwarf. 



P. 1 cm., livid cinnamon, becoming paler, somewhat fleshy, hemi- 

 spherical, then plane and concave, smooth; margin at first covered 

 with white meal. St. 1 cm., white, fibrillose. Gills pale, at length 

 white mealy, adnate, attenuated at the base, rather distant. Spores 

 white, globose, 15-16//,, echinulate. Naked soil under trees. 



Spores white; hymenium waxy. 

 Hygrophorus Fr. 



(7/905, moist; </>epo>, I bear.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, viscid, or dry. Stem central, fleshy. Gills 

 decurrent, or adnato-decurrent. Spores white, very rarely slightly 

 coloured, elliptical, oval, globose, clavate, pip-shaped, or oblong- 

 elliptical, smooth, continuous. Cystidia present, or absent. Growing 

 on the ground, very rarely on wood. 



I. Universal veil viscid, with occasionally a floccose partial one, 

 which is annular, or marginal. St. clothed with scales, or more 

 frequently rough with dots above. Gills adnato-decurrent. 

 *White, or yellowish white. 



890. H. chrysodon Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 872, t. 885. 



Xpucro9, gold; oSou?, a tooth. 



P. 5-7 cm., white, or yellowish, covered with evanescent, yellow, 

 floccose squamules, which are more permanent at the involute margin, 



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