348 LEPTONIA. NAUCORIA 



towards the margin, edge often black. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 

 10 x 6-7 [i. Pastures, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1095. L. nefrens FT. Nefrens, having no teeth. 

 P. 2-5-5 cm., fuliginous, then livid-grey, membranaceous, campanu- 



late, then flattened, with a deep darker umbilicus, at length infundibuli- 

 form, striate, obsoletely fibrillose. St. 2-3 cm. x 2-4 mm., fuscous- 

 livid, fragile, equal. Gills pallid grey, adnexed, separating, broad, 

 edge slightly black. Spores pink, "elliptical, 4-5 x 3/x." Massee. 

 Grassy places, and marshy pastures. July Sept. Uncommon. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 

 Naucoria Fr. 



(Naucum, a flock of wool.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular; margin at first incurved. Stem central, car- 

 tilaginous. Gills adnate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores ochra- 

 ceous, ferruginous or fuscous; elliptical, pip-shaped, almond-shaped, 

 or oblong elliptical, smooth, punctate, or verrucose; continuous, or 

 with a germ-pore. Cystidia present. Growing on the ground, more 

 rarely on wood ; solitary, gregarious, or caespitose. 



I. P. smooth. Veil none. Spores ferruginous, not becoming 



fuscous ferruginous. 

 *Gills free, or slightly adnexed. 



1096. N. lugubris Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 121, fig. 1. Lugubris, mournful. 

 P. 5-8 cm., pallid, then ferruginous, at length almost date brown, 



fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, gibbous, smooth, rarely bullate, 

 undulated, and tenaciously viscid. St. 5-10 cm. x 6-10 mm., pallid, 

 becoming ferruginous downwards when old, with a long, attenuated, 

 fusiform root, externally very cartilaginous, rigid, smooth. Gills 

 pallid, then ferruginous, quite free, ventricose, very broad behind, 

 12 mm. and more broad, crowded, edge for the most part serrated. 

 Flesh white. Spores pallid, then ferruginous, "nearly almond-shaped, 

 7-8 x 4-5 /n. Cystidia only on edge of gill, clavate filamentous " Rick. 

 Often caespitose. Mountainous fir woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1097. N. festiva Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 22. Festiva, handsome. 

 P. 2-5 cm., olivaceous fuscous, becoming olivaceous straw colour, 



isabelline, bay, or rufous when dry, fleshy, convex, slightly gibbous, 

 smooth, glutinous when fresh. St. 5-9 cm. x 4-8 mm., rufous, violaceous, 

 olivaceous, or pallid, with reticulately adpressed black fibrils, equal, or 

 attenuated downwards, somewhat rooting, sometimes ventricose and 

 compressed, very cartilaginous, either fuscous squamulose, or smooth. 

 Gills whitish, then olivaceous, rufous, or ferruginous blood red, free, 



