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hind, very crowded, often crenulate. Flesh, concolorous, thin at the 

 margin. Spores ferruginous, "elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4 jn, smooth. Cys- 

 tidia on the edge of the gill subulate-capitate, 36-40 x 5-6 /u," Eick. 

 Coniferous stumps. May Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1122. N. hydrophila Mass. (= Naucoria nasuta Kalchbr. sec. Cke.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1173, t. 1172, fig. A, as Naucoria nasuta Kalchbr. 



v8(op, water; 0tXo?, loving. 



P. 1-3-5 cm., pale ochraceous tan with a distinct tinge of green here 

 and there, fleshy, campanulate, then slightly expanded, acutely um- 

 bonate, smooth; margin striate when moist. St. 3-5 cm. x 2mm., 

 rather ferruginous, or with red and green tints, equal, flexuose, smooth. 

 Gills pallid, then brownish, adnexed, rather crowded, 3 mm. broad, 

 edge pale. Flesh greenish, very thin. Spores brown, elliptical, 13- 

 14 x 6-7^1,. Gregarious. Swampy places under trees. Sept. Oct. 

 Eare. 



1123. N. triscopa Fr. (= Galera triscopa (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 124, 

 fig. 3. rpi-, three; CT/COTTO?, faced. 



P. 4-10 mm., deep bay, tawny or ochraceous when dry, always 

 opaque, fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, then convexo-plane, with a 

 prominent umbo, smooth. St. 1-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., ferruginous, opaque, 

 base umber, often velvety, equal, curved, or flexuose, smooth. Gills 

 yellowish, then dark ferruginous, adnate, ventricose, plane, thin, some- 

 what crowded. Flesh yellowish, ferruginous in the St., very thin at the 

 margin. Spores "ferruginous, pruniform, 10//," Quel. Stumps, and 

 rotten wood of frondose trees, rarely on humus. May Sept. Un- 



II. P. naked. Gills and spores fuscous ferruginous. 

 Veil potential, rarely manifest. 



*Growing in fields, and plains. 



1124. N. vervacti Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 504, t. 617, fig. A. 



Vervactum, fallow ground. 



P. 2-3 cm., light yellow, or pallid yellow, fleshy, convex, then plane, 

 obtuse, or umbonate, soft, smooth, slightly viscid, shining when dry. 

 St. 2-5-4 cm. x 46 mm., whitish, cartilaginous, rigid, attenuated 

 either upwards or downwards, smooth, often striate. Gills pallid, 

 then ferruginous fuscous, adnate with a decurrent tooth, 6 mm. 

 broad, plane, at length ventricose, crowded. Flesh white, thick at 

 the disc. Spores "olive brown in the mass, elliptic-oval, 12-17 x" 

 8-12ju. Cystidia on edge of gill fusiform, 40-45 x 9-10/i, with or 

 without a head" Eick. Gardens, and pastures. May Nov. Un- 

 common. 



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