372 PANAEOLUS 



Gills fuliginous black, slightly adnexed, ascending, lanceolate. Flesh 

 thin. Spores "blackish, elliptical, 10 x 6-7 /A" Massee. Rich pas- 

 tures, and lawns. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



****P. dry, smooth, zoned round the margin. 



1183. P. subbalteatus B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 632, t. 631, fig. B. 



Sub, somewhat; balteatus, belted. 



P. 25 cm., dull deep fawn colour, pallid when dry, hygrophanous, 

 fleshy, convex, margin slightly incurved, then expanded, obtuse, or 

 slightly umbonate, irregular, slightly wrinkled, marked near the margin 

 with a dark, narrow zone. St. 5-8 cm. x 2 mm., red brown, equal, 

 brittle, stringy, splitting longitudinally, marked with short white fibrils. 

 Gills brownish, adnate, slightly ventricose, edge white, slightly toothed. 

 Flesh brownish, thick at the disc. Spores "black, opaque, almost 

 lemon-shaped, 13-14 x 8-9/A. Cystidia on edge of gill filamentous, 

 with a brown apex, 36-45 x 6-7 /u," Rick. Caespitose. In a tare-field. 

 Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1184. P. acuminatus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 633, t. 632, fig. A. 



Acuminatus, pointed. 



P. 1-5-2-5 cm., flesh tan colour, fleshy, conical, acuminate, smooth, 

 shining, zoned with a blackish line round the margin which is at first 

 crenulate. St. 2-5-7-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., pallid above, fuscous below, 

 equal, pruinose, base thickened. Gills whitish, then blackish, adnexed, 

 ventricose, broad. Flesh pallid, fuscous towards the base of the st., 

 thin. Spores black, "opaque when mature, lemon-shaped, 12-15 x 

 8-10ju. Cystidia on edge of gill filamentous, 50-70 x 4-6 /x" Rick. 

 On dung. Pastures, and roadsides. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



1185. P. fimicola Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 633, t. 632, fig. B. 



Fimus, dung; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 1-2 cm., fuliginous grey, clay hoary when dry, fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then convex, obtuse, smooth, opaque, marked round the margin 

 with a narrow fuscous zone, and inside this with a white one. St. 

 5-10 crn. x 2 mm., becoming dingy pale, equal, soft-fragile, obsoletely 

 slightly silky striate, apex white pruinose. Gills variegated grey and 

 fuliginous, adnate, slightly rounded, somewhat ventricose, broad, 

 almost semi-ovate, edge often white. Flesh grey white, thin. Spores 

 brownish black, "nearly transparent, subelliptical, 11-12 x 7-8 p,, 

 smooth. Cystidia on edge of gill, cylindrical-filamentous, rarely flask- 

 shaped, 40-50 x 6-12/i" Rick. On dung. Rich pastures. April 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



var. cinctnhis (Bolt.) Cke. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 152. 



Cinctulus, a little girdle. 

 Differs from the type in the reddish cinnamon p. with broad brown 



