352 NATJCORIA 



1110. N. innocua (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 498, t. 489, fig. A. 



Innocua, harmless. 



P. 34 cm., rufous, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, convex, obtuse, 

 rather smooth, fibrillosely-smooth under a lens, striate. St. 4-5 cm. x 

 3-4 mm., white fibrillose, base woolly. Gills light yellow ochraceous, 

 adnate, somewhat crowded. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 10 x 4-6 p.. 

 Damp places. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



1111. N. cerodes Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 498, t. 489, fig. B. 



KrjpfaSrjs, wax-like. 



P. 1-3 cm., watery cinnamon, tan colour when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, campanulato-convex, then flattened, at length depressed, obtuse, 

 smooth, pellucidly striate at the margin when moist, slightly 

 silky -atomate when dry. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid, or pale 

 yellowish, becoming bay -brown-fuscous, sometimes only at the base, 

 slightly firm, equal, somewhat flexuose, fibrillosely striate under a 

 lens, apex mealy. Gills pattid, then cinnamon, adnate, separating, 

 very broad behind, hence almost triangular, subdistant, broad, plane, 

 edge minutely fimbriate under a lens. Flesh pallid, thin. Spores 

 brownish ferruginous, broadly elliptical, 9-12 x 6-7 /z, 1 2-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "on surface of gill fusiform, 35-40 x 10-1 2 /z, sparse, on 

 edge of gill the majority filamentous-clavate " Rick. Woods, heaths, 

 burnt ground, and on stumps. May Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1112. N. melinoides Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 499, t. 457, upper figs. 



fteXt, honey; etSo?, like. 



P. 1-2 cm., tawny, ochraceous when dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, 

 sometimes globose then hemispherical, obtuse, or gibbous, striate at 

 the margin when old. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, or ochraceous, 

 base paler, white, equal, or slightly attenuated, sometimes attenuated 

 at both ends, slightly firm, smooth, apex white pruinose. Gills some- 

 what tawny, or light yellowish ochraceous, adnate, ventricose, crowded, 

 edge often denticulate. Flesh yellowish, thin at the margin. Spores pale 

 ferruginous, elliptical, 9-13 x 4-8 /LI, with a large central gutta. 

 Cystidia flask-shaped, capitate, apex 5-8/z in diam., base ventricose, 

 50-55 x 8-19jit. Heaths, pastures, lawns, and roadsides. June Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



1113. N. pusiola Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 124, fig. 4. Pusio, a little boy. 

 P. 6-12 mm., yellow, or tawny yellow, submembranaceous or slightly 



fleshy, hemispherical, or campanulato-hemispherical, then expanded, 

 obtuse, smooth, slightly viscid. St. 2-5-4 cm. x 1-2 mm., shining 

 light yellow, or lemon yellow, tough, equal, or attenuated upwards, 

 flexuose, smooth, slightly viscid, apex often pruinose, base often be- 

 coming brownish. Gills yellow white, or watery cinnamon, then brown, 

 adnate, broad, plane. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores "brown, pruni- 

 form, 8 x 4/z" Sacc. Pastures, and mossy hillsides. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



