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pale yellow, equal, slightly thickened at the base, very fragile, fibrillose, 

 striate. Gills fuliginous, then greyish, becoming rosy, separating, free, 

 subdistant, watery. Flesh pale, deeper coloured at the periphery, very 

 thin. Spores pink, very angular, generally subquadrangular or stellate, 

 10-11 x 8-10/ti. Basidia generally with 2-sterigmata only. Woods, 

 and pastures. June Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1284. N. versatilis Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 12. 



Versatilis, variable. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., livid aeruginous, fuscous when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, convex, then expanded, obtuse, or obtusely umbonate, shining. 

 St. 3-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., greyish white, with a silvery sheen when dry, 

 rigid. Gills grey, then sprinkled with the rosy spores, adnate, ventri- 

 cose, 3-4 mm. broad, widest in front. Flesh dark, fuscous. Spores 

 pink, angular, oblong, 9-10 x 7/z,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "abundant, 

 clavate, 45-70 x 9-12jLt, with darkish olive, granular contents" Rick. 

 Heaths, pastures, and lawns. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1285. N. Babingtonii Blox. Cke. Illus. no. 363, t. 377, upper figs. 



Professor C. C. Babington, the eminent botanist. 

 P. 10-15 mm., cinereous, shining like silk, adorned with dark brown, 

 fasciculate fibrils which are free at one end, conico-campanulate, disc 

 rather squamulose. St. 2-5 cm. x 2 mm., clothed with dark brown 

 down, equal, somewhat strigose, slightly wavy. Gills cinereous, 

 darker at the base, adnate, ventricose, distant, glittering with little 

 points. Spores pink, angular, elliptical, 7-9/i. Woods. Oct. Nov. 

 Rare. 



1286. N. araneosa Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 12. 



Araneosa, full of spiders' webs. 



P. 1-2 cm., dark grey, membranaceous, campanulate, fibrillosely 

 silky. St. 3-5-4 cm. x 2 mm., grey, with a greyish fugacious cortina, 

 fragile, fibrillose. Gills greyish-bistre, then dusted with the rosy spores, 

 adnate, 2-3 mm. wide. Flesh dark, then yellowish. Spores pink, an- 

 gular, often pentagonal, oblong, 13-16 x 8-9/n, 1-guttulate. Coni- 

 ferous woods and under conifers. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1287. N. strigosissima Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. 



Strigosissima, very rough haired. 



P. 4-8 mm. broad, 3-5 mm. high, reddish brown, or ferruginous, 

 somewhat fleshy, conical, densely clothed with erect, reddish brown stri- 

 gose hairs; hairs elongate, apex blunt, septate, 450-600 x 15-20 p; 

 margin incurved. St. 1-5-2-5 cm. x 1 mm., concolorous, equal, slightly 

 thickened at the base, densely clothed with similar hairs. Gills brown, 

 becoming cinereous, pruinose with the spores, adnate, 1 mm. broad. 



