356 NAUCORIA 



1125. N. pediades FT. (= Cantharellus Brownii B. & Br. sec. Pat.; 

 Naucoria semi-orbicularis (Bull.) Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 

 505, t. 492. vreStoi/, a plain, or field. 



P. 2-5 cm., yellow, or pale yellowish ochraceous, then becoming pale, 

 fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, dry, smooth, at length rimoso- 

 rivulose. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., yellowish, stuffed with a pith, sub- 

 flexuose, tough, equal, base bulbous from the mycelium being rolled 

 together, slightly silky, becoming even. Gills somewhat fuscous, then 

 dingy cinnamon, adnexed, 4-10 mm. broad, crowded, then subdistant. 

 Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores fuscous ferruginous, broadly 

 elliptical, 8-9 x 5-6 p, with a large central gutta. Cystidia "ventri- 

 cose-fusiform, or with an enlarged head, 45-50 x 8 10/u," Rick. 

 Pastures, and roadsides. July Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1126. N. semi-orbicularis (Bull.) Fr. (= Naucoria pediades Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. lUus. no. 507, t. 493, fig. A. 



Semi-, half; orbicularis, round. 



P. 25 cm., tawny ferruginous, then ochraceous, fleshy, convexo- 

 expanded, obtuse, slightly viscid when fresh and moist, then dry, 

 smooth, corrugated when dry. St. 7-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., ochraceous, 

 becoming pallid ferruginous, shining, often darker at the base, cartilagi- 

 nous, tough, equal, tense, straight, smooth, internally with a separate 

 fistulose tube which is easily broken up into fibrils. Gills pallid, then 

 ferruginous, adnate, rarely sinuate, 46 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh 

 white, thin at the margin. Spores brownish, elliptical, 9-12 x 5-7 /x. 

 Cystidia flask-shaped, or fusiform, 45-50 x 13-1 5 p, apex obtuse, 6-8 p 

 in diam. Pastures, heaths, roadsides. June Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1127. N. arvalis Fr. Arvum, an arable field. 

 P. 1-2 cm., yellow fuscous, pallid ochraceous when dry, disc yellow, or 



concolorous, fleshy, firm, convex, then expanded, orbicular, obtuse, 

 smooth, slightly viscid. St. 3-4 cm. x 1-2 mm., becoming yellowish, 

 equal, smooth, often pulverulent, attenuated into a long, cottony root, 

 internally with a not easily separable fistulose tube. Gills pallid grey, 

 then umber fuscous, or becoming ferruginous, adnexed, plane, very broad, 

 quaternate, distant, edge often lemon yellow. Flesh lemon yellow. 

 Spores "light yellow, almond-shaped, 10-12/i, oblong" Quel. Arable 

 fields, gardens, and sea-sands. July Oct. Uncommon. 



1128. N. tabacina (DC.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 507, t. 493, fig. B. 



Tabacum, tobacco. 



P. 6-20 mm., umber, then bay-brown-cinnamon, very moist, tan 

 colour when dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, disc very obtuse, smooth ; 

 margin involute, often covered with a silky veil. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2 mm., 

 brown, darker and fuscous at the base, equal, attenuated downwards 



