LEPTONIA 347 



oblong, 9-11 x 6-7/z,, 1-guttulate. Woods, and pastures. July 

 Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. decurrens (Boud.) Kea. Boud. Icon. t. 94. 



Decurrens, running down. 



Differs from the type in the distinctly decurrent gills. Woods, pas- 

 tures, and roadsides. July Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. lutescens Fr. Lutescens, becoming yellow. 



Differs from the type in the yellowish, more regular, convex, even p., 

 and almost adnate gills. 



var. sublutescens Henn. Sub, somewhat; lutescens, becoming yellow. 

 Differs from the type in the white, silky-floccose p. becoming smooth 

 and dingy yellow, and the white st. becoming yellowish. 



1092. L. formosa Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 98, fig. 1. Formosa, beautiful. 

 P. 2-3 cm., yellow wax colour, sprinkled over with minute fuscous 



squamules or fibrils, submembranaceous, slightly tough, convex, then 

 plane, slightly umbilicate, striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., yellow, car- 

 tilaginous, equal, shining. Gills light-yellow-pallid, then flesh colour, 

 adnate, decurrent with a tooth, subdistant. Spores pink, angular, 

 oblong, 10 x 8/i,, 1-guttulate. Coniferous woods, and heaths. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. suavis (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 360, t. 488. Suavis, pleasant. 

 Differs from the type in the stem becoming blue. Amongst Equisetum. 

 Sept. Bare. 



1093. L. chloropolia Fr. (= Leptonia incana Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. 

 t. 98, fig. 2. x\top6s, pale green; 7roXto<?, grey. 



P. 2-3 cm., livid, disc black squamulose, membranaceous, convex, 

 then flattened, striate; margin at first inflexed. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2- 

 4 mm., bluish-grey-green, slightly firm, rigid. Gills whitish, then flesh 

 colour, adnate. Spores pink, angular, globose, 9-10 x 8/4, 1-guttu- 

 late. Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



****Gills grey, or glaucous. Hygrophanous, p. somewhat striate. 



1094. L. asprella Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. t. 6, fig. 4. 



Asprella, somewhat rough. 



P. 2-4 cm., fuliginous, or mouse colour, then livid-grey, submem- 

 branaceous, convex, then flattened, darker umbilicus villose, at length 

 squamulose, marked with spots, striate, often fibrillose. St. 2-55 cm. 

 x 1-2 mm., fuscous, green, or azure-blue, cartilaginous, equal, tense 

 and straight, base white- villose. Gills whitish grey, then flesh colour, 

 adnate, separating free, subdistant, equally attenuated from the stem 



