NATTCORIA 359 



1136. N. sobria Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 512, t. 511, fig. A. 



Sobria, sober, not bibulous. 



P. 620 mm., honey colour, disc darker, becoming pale, fleshy, con- 

 vex, obtuse, or umbonate, slightly viscid, margin appendiculate with 

 the silky, fugacious veil. St. 3-4 cm. x 2 mm., pallid upwards, ferrugi- 

 nous fuscous downwards, slightly firm, somewhat tough, straight, or 

 slightly bent, equal, often sprinkled with whitish spots, the remains 

 of the veil, apex often mealy. Gills paler than the p., then saffron, with 

 the edge whitish or yellowish floccose, obtusely adnate, broader behind, 

 plane, 3 mm. broad, subdistant. Flesh pallid, somewhat ferruginous 

 towards the base of the st., thin. Spores ochraceous, elliptical, or pip- 

 shaped, 6-7 x 4/i. Charcoal heaps, and on the ground in woods. 

 July Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. dispersa B. & Br. Dispersa, scattered. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, in the punctulate p. and the 

 appendiculate ring on the st. Lawns. July. Rare. 



**P. with innate squamules. 

 N. erinacea Fr. = Pholiota erinacea (Fr.) Quel. 



1137. N. siparia Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 126, fig. 2. 



Siparium, a little curtain. 



Entirely rufous ferruginous. P. 6-20 mm., fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, densely villoso-squamulose, moist. St. 12-5 cm. x 2mm., 

 fragile, equal, tense and straight, densely sheathed with the scaly, 

 villose, downy veil; apex ochraceous, pruinose. Gills ochraceous, then 

 ferruginous, adnate, quaternate, subdistant, edge flocculose. Flesh 

 concolorous, becoming yellowish, thick, soft. Spores pale ferruginous, 

 pip-shaped, 8-9 x 6-7 /LI, 1-guttulate. On wood, dead branches, earth, 

 dead fern stems, and caddis worm cases. July Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



1138. N. conspersa (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 514, t. 512, fig. A. 



Conspersa, besprinkled. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., bay brown, or rufous cinnamon, ochraceous when dry, 

 fragile, very hygrophanous, fleshy, campanulato-convex, then flat- 

 tened, obtuse, even, soon furfuraceous and broken up into small scales. 

 St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2 mm., cinnamon, ochraceous when dry, equal, fibrillose, 

 apex squamuloso-furfuraceous, base white tomentose. Gills dark cinna- 

 mon, adnate, then em&Tgiji&to-separating, linear, or ventricose, 

 crowded. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores "ferruginous, elliptical, 9-11 x 

 5-6 /*" Karst. Gregarious. Woods, heaths, and pastures. Aug. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. uliginosa Fr. Uligo, marshy ground. 



Differs from the type in being twice or thrice as large in all its parts, 



in the fuscous rufescent, umbonate pileus, the long, twisted, umber st. 



