NAUCORIA 357 



when shorter, somewhat flexuose, smooth. Gills bay -brown-cinnamon, 

 then ferruginous, adnate, plane, linear, or ovate, crowded. Flesh pallid 

 reddish, deeper in the St., thin. Spores tobacco coloured in mass, 

 "elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5 /A" Massee. Cystidia "on edge of gill fusiform- 

 subulate, 30-40 x 5-6 /x" Rick. Lawns, waysides, and heaths. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Growing in moist, uncultivated, wooded places. 



1129. N. tenax Fr. Tenax, firm. 

 P. 25 cm., varying between cinnamon and an olivaceous, or somewhat 



fuscous yellow, dirty, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, hemispherical, 

 then expanded, obtuse, rarely umbonate, sometimes becoming de- 

 pressed at the disc, smooth, or slightly wrinkled, slightly viscid when 

 young. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-10 mm., concolorous, or dingy pallid, be- 

 coming fuscous, or olive, apex paler, equal, or thickened upwards, 

 striate with adpressed fibrils, and sprinkled with white fibrils, the re- 

 mains of the fugacious veil. Gills whitish fuscous, then ferruginous 

 with the edge whitish, adnate, becoming somewhat rounded and 

 separating, 6-10 mm. broad, plane, triangular, or oblong. Flesh 

 yellowish, becoming whitish, thick at the disc. Spores ferruginous, pip- 

 shaped, 13-16 x 7-8/z, sometimes depressed on one side, 1-2-guttu- 

 late. Bogs on dead stems of Potentilla Comarum, and in ditches 

 amongst sticks. May Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1130. N. Myosotis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 125, fig. 1. 



Myosotis, the Forget-me-not. 



P. 24 cm., olivaceous, or fuscous green, becoming pale, or light 

 yellow, disc darker, fleshy, convex, then plane, subumbonate when 

 flattened, smooth, with a viscid pellicle. St. 7-15 cm. x 2-6 mm., 

 pallid, then fuscous, apex white pruinose, slightly firm, equal, often 

 flexuose, either fibrillose (the fibrils here and there blackish) or scaly. 

 Gills pallid umber olivaceous, then brown ferruginous, with the edge 

 whitish and serrate, adnate, decurrent with a tooth, 56 mm. broad, 

 subdistant. Flesh pallid, thin. Spores fuscous ferruginous, pip-shaped, 

 16-18 x 8-lOjLt, 1-guttulate. Cystidia on gill edge subcylindrical, 

 flexuose, 36-40 x 7-9 /z, apex obtuse, 5-6/A in diam. Bogs amongst 

 Sphagnum, and Potentilla Comarum. July Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1131. N. temulenta Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 125, fig. 2. Temulenta, sodden. 

 P. 1-3 cm., ferruginous, ochraceous, or whitish when dry, hygro- 



phanous, submembranaceous, campanulate, then convex, sometimes 

 subumbonate, smooth ; margin striate when moist. St. 4-8 cm. x 2mm., 

 yellow, or ferruginous, tough, equal, flexuose, polished, fistulose with a 

 pith, apex pruinose, base white-villous. Gills yellow, or lurid ferrugi- 

 nous, then umber, or ferruginous, adnate, attenuated in front, sub- 



