LEPTONIA 345 



1084. L. solstitialis Fr. Solstitialis, belonging to midsummer. 

 P. 1-3 cm., becoming fuscous, slightly fleshy, at length depressed, 



papillate in the centre, slightly wrinkled, obsoletely innato-fibrillose. St. 

 2-3 cm. x 2-4 mm., smoke colour. Gills whitish, then flesh colour, 

 emarginate, broad. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 10 x 7/u,, 1-guttu- 

 late. Pastures, and amongst stones. Aug. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 **Gills at the first azure-blue, or slightly dark-blue. 



1085. L. serrulata (Pers.) Fr. Serrula, a small saw. 

 P. 1-3 cm., blackish-blue (shining when dry), fuliginous when old 



or in wet weather, and then slightly striate, slightly fleshy, convex, 

 umbilicato-depressed, squamulose, or fibrillose. St. 2-3 cm. x 2-4 mm., 

 paler than the p., cartilaginous, equal, apex black dotted, base white- 

 woolly. Gills bluish-grey-whitish, then grey flesh colour, adnate, in 

 the form of a segment, broad in the middle; edge black, serrulate. 

 Flesh whitish. Spores pink, angular, 8-11 x 7/u,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "pale grey, fasciculate, clavate, 11-12/x broad" Lange. Woods, 

 and pastures. June Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Berkeley! Maire. Cke. Illus. no. 355, t. 333, as Leptonia serrulata 

 Fr. Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, the father of British mycology. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., whitish with a lilac tinge, umbilicate, slightly sprinkled 

 with fibrils; margin vaulted. St. 7-10 cm. x 3mm., whitish with a 

 lilac tinge, flexuose, smooth. Gills salmon colour, broad, adnate, little 

 or not serrulate. Flesh whitish. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 11-12 x 

 6-7 IJL, 1-2-guttulate. Pastures. July Sept. Not uncommon (v.v.) 

 var. laevipes Maire. Laevis, smooth ; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the smooth (not black dotted) apex of the stem. 

 Woods, and pastures. July Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1086. L. euchroa (Pers.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 98. 



e#%pco<?, well coloured. 



P. 1-4-5 cm., violaceous, then purple-fuliginous, slightly fleshy, con- 

 vex, obtuse, squamuloso-fibrillose. St. 2-6 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, 

 equal, fibrillosely mealy especially at the apex, tough; base white, 

 hairy. Gills dark violaceous, becoming pale, the edge retaining the darker 

 colour, adnate, ventricose. Flesh bluish. Spores pink, angular, 

 10-15 x 7-9/i. On stumps, and branches of alder, hazel, and birch. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1087. L. chalybaea (Pers.) Fr. %aXwf , steel. 

 P. 2-3 cm., dark violaceous, or blackish blue, slightly fleshy, convex, 



subumbonate, flocculose, then squamulose. St. 4-5 cm. x 2 mm., dark 

 blue, cartilaginous, slightly firm. Gills bluish-grey-whitish, edge paler, 

 adnate, crowded, broad, ventricose. Spores pink, "longish, 5-6- 

 angled, 9-10 x 7-8 ju, with prominent angles" Rick. Pastures. 

 July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



