344 LEPTONIA 



become Hack and crowded on the disc. St. 4-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., fuscous 

 lilac, or dark purple, equal, moderately tough, striate and black-dotted 

 upwards under a lens, base white- villose. Gills whitish-grey, then pur- 

 plish, adnate with a small tooth, then separating, plane, very broad, 

 ovate, crowded. Flesh white. Spores pink, "angular, elliptical, 12/u," 

 Quel. Amongst beech leaves. July Oct. Uncommon. 



1081. L. Reaae Maire. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 11. 



Mrs E. A. Rea, the artist who has made many original 



paintings of fungi. 



P. -5-1 cm., dark blackish blue, convex, then expanded, submem- 

 branaceous disc fleshy, not, or only slightly hygrophanous, rarely 

 umbonate or papillate at maturity; margin slightly incurved, then 

 expanded and sometimes substriate. St. 2-3 cm. x 1-5 mm., deep 

 blue, or blue black, then often vinous, equal, flexuose, wavy, shining, ob- 

 soletely whitish mealy at the apex. Gills whitish then greyish-pink, 

 broadly and deeply sinuate, narrowly adnate, then free, somewhat 

 crowded, short, broad. Flesh vinous. Spores pink, obsoletely polygonal, 

 subglobose, 8-10 x 7-8/4, including the apiculus, containing many oil 

 drops. Pastures. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1082. L. lampropus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 353, t. 331. 



Xa/ix7rpo9, bright; TTOI;?, foot. 



P. 13 cm., mouse colour, or steel-blue, then fuliginous-grey, some- 

 what fleshy, convex, then expanded and depressed, becoming more or 

 less squamulose. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 24 mm., becoming azure-blue, com- 

 monly steel-blue-violaceous, cartilaginous. Gills whitish, then slightly 

 rose colour, adnate, readily separating, then free, ventricose. Flesh 

 bluish. Spores pink, angular, broadly elliptical, 9 x 7/z, 1-guttulate, 

 with somewhat rounded angles. Heaths, and pastures. July Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. cyanulus (Lasch) Fr. icvavos, dark blue. 



Differs from the type in the more slender, membranaceous, blackish- 

 blue, subumbilicate, fioccosely-villose p., the capillary, pruinose st., and 

 the glaucous, then flesh colour, adnate, distant gills. On the ground 

 near alders. 



1083. L. aethiops Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 97, fig. 3. al6ioty, an Ethiop. 



P. 1-3 cm., black, then fuliginous, slightly fleshy, piano-depressed, 

 streaked with fibrils, shining when dry. St. 4-5 cm. x 2 mm., fuscous 

 blackish, black dotted upwards. Gills whitish, then purplish, adnexed, 

 or adnate, linear, or ventricose. Flesh whitish. Spores pink, angular, 

 9-10 x 6/Lt, 1-guttulate. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. Not un- 

 common. (v.v.) 



