350 NAUCORIA 



5-6 x 3-4/Lt, smooth. Cystidia only on edge of gill, filamentous" 

 Rick. Pine woods, and on the ground round trunks. Oct. Nov. 

 Uncommon. 



1102. N. Cucumis (Pers.) Fr. (= Nolaneanigripes (Trog) Fr.; Nolanea 

 pisciodora (Ces.) Fr.; Nolanea picea Kalchbr. sec. Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 364, t. 378, upper figs., as Nolanea pisciodora Ces. 



Cucumis, cucumber. 



P. 1-4 cm., tawny cinnamon, pitch black, bay-brown-fuscous, be- 

 coming paler towards the margin, umber, fawn, or tan colour when dry, 

 fleshy, campanulate, then convex, umbonate, or obtuse, pruinose; 

 margin incurved, often striate when moist. St. 3-6 cm. x 3-6 mm., 

 date brown, chestnut brown, or fuscous blackish, tough, equal, pruinose, 

 velvety, apex often paler, white floccose at the base. Gills pale, yellowish 

 flesh colour, then saffron yellow, or tawny, emarginate, ventricose, 

 crowded. Flesh concolorous, thin at the margin. Spores pale, ferru- 

 ginous, oblong, elliptical, 8-10 x 3-4 p,, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "broadly lanceolate, 60-75 x 18-23/i" Rick. Smell unpleasant, of 

 fish, or cucumber. Coniferous, and damp woods, amongst dead leaves, 

 and bare soil in gardens. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1103. N. echinospora W. G. Sm. e'^o/o?, hedgehog; <nropd, seed. 

 P. 12 mm., buff, then pale, flat, subumbonate, moist, hygrophanous, 



slightly furfur aceous; margin substriate. St. 2 cm. x 4-5 mm., brown- 

 ish salmon, paler above, rufescent below, white flocculose. Gills ochre, 

 olive-shaded, sinuate, subdistant. Spores 7 x Qp,, rough. Greenhouses. 

 Aug. Rare. 



1104. N. anguinea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 122, fig. 1. Anguinea, snaky. 

 P. 3-6 cm., rufous, or pale yellowish, somewhat tan colour when dry, 



fleshy, campanulate, then convex, gibbous, smooth, covered near the 

 margin when young with a superficial silky zone from the fibrils of the 

 veil. St. 5-8 cm. x 4-6 mm., bay brown, equal, base thickened, often 

 flexuose, densely white-fibrillose, and forming numerous zone-like marks; 

 often with silky spots when dry. Gills pallid isabelline, or yellow, then 

 ferruginous, somewhat free, ascending into the top of the cone, some- 

 what linear, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh concolorous, thin except 

 at the disc. Spores ferruginous. Damp places in woods, and heaths. 

 Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1105. N. centunculus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 495, t. 601, fig. A. 



Centunculus, patch- work. 



P. 820 mm., lurid, or olivaceous fuscous, becoming light yellow 

 green, finally becoming pale, but not hygrophanous, fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, often excentric, dry, slightly silky under a lens ; margin 

 incurved, often striate, occasionally yellow-pulverulent. St. 2-5- 

 3 cm. x 2-4 mm., cinereous light yellow, somewhat equal, often curved, 



