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attenuated behind, generally ventricose, 6 mm. broad, crowded, edge 

 often white, pubescent. Flesh pallid, becoming reddish in the St., thin 

 at the margin. Spores ferruginous, almond-shaped, 8 x 4ju,, 1-guttu- 

 late, "roughish. Cystidia only on edge of gill, filamentous" Kick. 

 Smell weak, of radish. Coniferous woods, and amongst grass. Sept. 

 Bare. 



1098. N. obtusa Cke. & Massee. Cke. lUus. no. 1171, t. 1155. 



Obtusa, blunt. 



P. 2-3 cm., rufous, or orange tawny, becoming pale, campanulate, 

 obtuse, margin faintly striate. St. 5 cm. x 4-6 mm., flesh colour, or 

 pale cinnamon, equal, smooth. Gills cinnamon, broadly adnate, or 

 with a tooth, 4-6 mm. broad, ventricose, edge serrate. Flesh con- 

 colorous, becoming pale, darker at the base of the st. Spores ferruginous, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 4/u,. On the ground. Sept. Rare. 



1099. N. subglobosa (A. & S.) Fr. 



Sub, somewhat; globosa, spherical. 



P. 2-3 cm., light yellow, darker at the disc, fleshy, hemispherical, 

 smooth, moist. St. 2-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, brownish at the 

 base, equal, rigid, striate at the apex. Gills concolorous, somewhat free, 

 very broad, convex, rhomboidal. Flesh lemon yellow, thin. Spores 

 ochraceous, "unequal-elliptical, 6-7 x 3 4/z, smooth. Cystidia on 

 edge of gill large, lanceolate-fusiform, 50-60 x 12-15/u,, without a 

 globose head" Rick. Pine woods, and on the ground. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



1100. N. hamadryas Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 121, fig. 3. 



apaSpvds, a wood nymph. 



P. 45 cm., bay brown ferruginous, pale yellowish when old, and be- 

 coming pale, fleshy, convex, then expanded, gibbous, smooth. St. 

 5 7-5 cm. x 6 mm., pallid, somewhat fragile, equal, smooth. Gills 

 ferruginous, opaque, attenuato-adnexed, somewhat free, slightly ventri- 

 cose, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh paler, thin, that of the p. easily 

 separating from the st. Spores "ferruginous, elliptical, 13-14 x 7/n" 

 Massee. Woods, and under trees. Sept. Nov. Uncommon. 



1101. N. cidaris Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 123, fig. 2. Kt,Sapi<;, a tiara. 

 P. 2-5 cm., clay cinnamon, or dark tawny cinnamon, tan colour when 



dry, fleshy, conical, then campanulate, slightly striate when moist at 

 the undulate, membranaceous margin, pruinose, or smooth. St. 

 4-5 cm. x 4 mm., fuscous black, apex concolorous and pruinose, at- 

 tenuated from the apex to the base, or fusiform, subcompressed, flexuose, 

 or straight, tough, smooth. Gills honey colour, or cinnamon clay, ad- 

 fixed, separating free, ascending, ventricose, 4-6 mm. broad, crowded. 

 Flesh whitish, scissile, thin at the disc. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 



