346 LEPTONIA 



1088. L. lazulina Fr. Lapis lazuli, ultramarine. 

 P. 1-5-2 cm., becoming black fuliginous, at first black blue, or date- 

 brown-mouse colour, with the disc darker, submembranaceous, campanu- 

 late, then expanded and obtuse, striate, obsoletely umbilicate, rimoso- 

 squamulose. St. 4-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., dark blue, cartilaginous, base 

 white-woolly. Gills pallid deep blue, adnate, separating, equally at- 

 tenuated from the stem to the margin of the pileus. Flesh dark blue. 

 Spores pink, angular, oblong, 11-12 x 7-8/x, 1-guttulate. Heaths, 

 and pastures. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



***Gills pallid. Becoming pale, yellow or green. 



1089. L. incana Fr. (= Leptonia chloropolia (Fr.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 359, t. 336 Incana, hoary. 



P. 2-3 cm., variegated fuscous and green, becoming cinereous when 

 dry, submembranaceous, fragile, convex, then expanded, umbilicate, 

 striate, slightly silky when dry. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., green, or 

 fuscous green, cartilaginous, base white-floccose. Gills whitish green, 

 then flesh colour, adnate, decurrent with a tooth, at length separa- 

 ting, 4-6 mm. broad at the middle, distant. Flesh green, thin. Spores 

 pink, angular, 8-12 x 7-8/z, 1-guttulate. Smell like that of mice. 

 Woods, heaths, and pastures. July Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1090. L. euchlora (Lasch) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 99. 



e, well; %Xo>pa, pale green. 



P. 1 -5-3-5 cm., olivaceous, becoming paler, submembranaceous, cam- 

 panulato-convex, then plane, fuscous fibrillose, subsquamulose, especi- 

 ally at the darker, finally depressed disc. St. 3-6 cm. x 3-5 mm., 

 greenish, apex yellowish, becoming deep blue or verdigris when bruised 

 or handled, equal, slightly thickened at the white, tomentose base, 

 hollow, fragile, smooth. Gills whitish, or very pale yellowish, then pink, 

 56 mm. wide, broadly adnate, subdistant. Flesh greenish, becoming 

 deep blue or verdigris when bruised or pressed, thin. Taste and smell 

 none. Spores pink, oblong, angular, 11-15 x 8-10/>t, multi-guttulate. 

 Amongst short grass in woods and open downs. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1091. L. sericella (Fr.) Quel. (= Entoloma sericellum Fr.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 335, t. 307, as Entoloma sericellum Fr. Sericus, silken. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., white, or becoming yellow white, somewhat fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, at length depressed, often unequal, silky, 

 often squamulose ; margin inflexed, floccose. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 white, then becoming pale, waxy, equal, fibrillose, at length somewhat 

 polished, pellucid. Gills white, then flesh colour, at first adnate, even, 

 decurrent with a tooth, then separating and somewhat emarginate, 

 very broad, subdistant. Flesh white, thin. Spores pink, angular, 



