NOLANEA 403 



Mesh concolorous, becoming cinereous, thin, firm. Spores pink, oblong, 

 angular, 15-17 x 7-8/j, often apiculate, 2-guttulate. Basidia pyri- 

 form, or broadly clavate, 36-40 x 15-18/u,, with 4-sterigmata. Cys- 

 tidia on edge of gill sparse, fusiform, or lanceolate, 60-70 x 10-12/z, ; 

 apex acute, thin walled. Cells of the cuticle of the p. pyriform, 25/z 

 in diam. Old pine logs. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1288. N. mammosa (Linn.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 81. 



Mammosa, having large breasts. 



P. 2-8 cm., umber, or fuliginous when moist, isabelline-silky when 

 dry, submembranaceous, conico-campanulate, papillate, striate. St. 

 5-15 cm. x 1-5-3 mm., fuliginous-livid, or yellowish grey, rigid, very 

 cartilaginous, equal, sometimes compressed; apex thickened, white- 

 mealy; base enlarged, white tomentose. Gills grey, then hoary-rose- 

 colour, adnexed, separating-free, ventricose, subdistant. Flesh con- 

 colorous. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 9-11 x 6-7 p, 1-guttulate. 

 Smell none, or like rancid meal. Woods, pastures, and lawns. Feb. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1289. N. papUlata Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 82, fig. 1. 



Papillata, having a nipple. 



P. 2-3 cm., fuscous bay, somewhat cinnamon when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, convexo-subcampanulate, then expanded, papillate, striate. 

 St. 3-5 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, shining, apex obsoletely white- 

 mealy, base white-tomentose. Gills livid white, then fuscous flesh 

 colour, sinuato-adnate, somewhat crowded. Flesh concolorous. Spores 

 pink, angular, oblong, 8-11 x 6-7 /x, 1-guttulate. Smell none, or 

 pleasant. Pastures, and lawns. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1290. N. juncea Fr. Juncea, like a rush. 

 P. 1-5-2 cm., umber-fuliginous, then livid when dry, hygrophanous, 



submembranaceous, conical, then expanded, disc somewhat umbilicate 

 and somewhat squamulose, radiately striate. St. 7-8 cm. x 12 mm., 

 fuscous, then livid fuscous, cartilaginous, equal, round, or compressed. 

 Gills grey, ascending, adnexed, separating, subdistant. Spores pink, 

 "angular, globose, 11-13/n" Quel. In Sphagnum swamps, and in 

 woods. Oct. Rare. 



var. cuspidata Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 99, fig. 2. Cuspidata, having a point. 

 Differs from the type in the papillato-cuspidate pileus. 



1291. N. fulvo-strigosa B. &. Br. Fulvus, tawny; strigosa, strigose. 

 P. 18 mm., grey, conical, 12 mm. high, slightly wrinkled. St. 5 cm. x 



2 mm., reddish, furfuraceo-squamulose, clothed at the base with rigid 

 red hairs. Gills grey, adnate. Spores pink, 13 x 9/z. Woods. Sept. 

 Rare. 



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