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ochraceous, then blackish bistre, apex often slightly velvety, equal, 

 base white tomentose. Gills ochraceous, then tawny, emarginate, ad- 

 nate, ventricose, very broad. Flesh concolorous, scissile. Spores 

 brownish ferruginous, oblong elliptical, 10-12 x 5-6/i. Taste insipid, 

 then very bitter. In troops. Old charcoal heaps in woods. May Sept. 

 Uncommon. 



1119. N. sideroides (Bull.) Fr. Cke. JQlus. no. 503, t. 458, upper figs. 



(riBr/pos, iron; etSo9, like. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., pale yellowish, honey colour, or cinnamon, tan ochra- 

 ceous when dry, somewhat shining, fleshy, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, smooth, very slightly viscid when moist; margin 

 incurved at first, then slightly striate. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid, 

 then becoming yellow and ferruginous downwards, base at length be- 

 coming fuscous, slightly firm, equal, sometimes undulated, or slightly 

 thickened at the apex, smooth, apex often white pruinose. Gills be- 

 coming watery-yellow ochraceous, at length somewhat cinnamon, adnate, 

 with a small decurrent tooth, sometimes sinuate and uncinato-adfixed, 

 ascending, linear, crowded. Flesh pallid, thin. Spores pale yellow, 

 "cylindrical-elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4 p,. Cystidia on edge of the gill very 

 delicate, filamentous-fusiform, 30-36/x,, apex with a globose head" 

 Rick. Stumps, ash and pine trunks, twigs, and chips. Oct. Nov. 

 Uncommon. 



1120. N. badipes Fr. (= Galera badipes (Fr.) Rick.) Fr. Icon. t. 123, 

 fig. 3. Badius, bay brown ; pes, foot. 



P. 8-20 mm,, yettowish ferruginous, tan when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, then convex, umbonate, pellucidly striate to the 

 disc when moist, smooth; margin almost straight and adpressed to the 

 st. St. 5 7'5 cm. x 2 mm., ferruginous, darker and becoming fuscous 

 towards the base, equal, firm, rigid, often flexuose, covered up to the 

 middle with white floccose scales, apex paler, naked. Gills pale yellowish 

 ferruginous, adnate, very ventricose, thin, subdistant. Flesh con- 

 colorous, thin. Spores ferruginous, elliptical, 10-12 x 5/u,. Cystidia 

 "thin, fusiform, with long, blunt point, 50-60 x 10-15/x," Rick. 

 Damp places in coniferous woods, and on heaths. Sept. Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



1121. N. camerina Fr. (= Galera camerina (Fr.) Rick.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 124, fig. 2. Kapdpa, an arched roof. 



P. 1-2 cm., honey colour, tan colour when dry, obtuse umbo often 

 darker, fleshy, campanulato-convex, obtuse, umbonate, smooth, hy- 

 grophanous; margin somewhat striate when moist. St. 3 4 cm. x 1 

 2 mm., umber, apex pallid, equal, or attenuated downwards, some- 

 what curved, or flexuose, tough, adpressedly fibrdlose. Gills yellowish 

 cinnamon, then ferruginous, adnate, plane, ascending, attenuated be- 





