NOLANEA 405 



***Gills shining white, then rosy. P. hygrophanous. 

 N. picea Kalchbr. = Naucoria Cucumis (Pers.) Fr. 



1296. N. infula Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 100, fig. 1. Infula, a fillet. 

 P. 1-4 cm., fawn, or fuliginous when damp, isabelline-livid when dry, 



shining in either state, membranaceous, pliant, conical, or campanu- 

 late, often repand and irregularly shaped, centre at length depressed. 

 St. 2-5-7-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, cartilaginous, very tough, 

 polished, striate, base white floccose with the mycelium. Gills shining 

 white, then bright rose colour, adnexed, separating free, thin, narrow, 

 very crowded. Flesh dark. Spores pink, angular, elliptical, 9 x 6/A, 

 1-guttulate. Charcoal heaps, lawns, and woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. versiformis Fr. Versiformis, changing its shape. 



P. 12 mm., convex, then depressed or even infundibuliform, per- 

 sistently papillate, very densely striate, silky-shining when dry. Burnt 

 ground. 



****Whitish. P. not hygrophanous. 



1297. N. verecunda Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 99, fig. 5. Verecunda, modest. 

 P. 1-2 cm., watery reddish, but very pallid, not changing colour when 



dry, submembranaceous, at first subumbonate, then rather obtuse, 

 pellucidly striate to the middle when moist, obsoletely silky towards 

 the fiocculose margin. St. 45 cm. x 24 mm., becoming pale, slightly 

 firm, cartilaginous, splitting into fibrils when crushed, apex mealy. 

 Gills whitish, watery, adnate, separating, rather thick, distant, distinct, 

 ventricose, in the form of a segment, 4-6 mm. broad. Spores "10- 

 12 x 5-8 p" Massee. Densely gregarious, or growing in troops 

 amongst grass in pastures. Sept. Uncommon. 



1298. N. coelestina Fr. Fr. Icon. 1. 100, fig. 2. Coelestina, heavenly. 

 P. 2-4 cm., dark azure-blue, rugged disc darker or blackish, membra- 



naceous, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, striate. St. 4 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., azure-blue-black, attenuated upwards, apex white pruinose. 

 Gills hoary white, adnate, ventricose, very broad. Spores pink, angu- 

 larly globose, 7-8 x 7/u,, rough. On old oak trunk, and in pine woods. 

 Oct. Eare. 



1299. N. exilis Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 12. Exilis, thin. 

 P. 12-18 mm., livid bluish grey, disc darker, papillate, membrana- 

 ceous, conical, then expanded, striate. St. 56 cm. x 2 mm., bluish 

 green, filiform, sticky. Gills whitish, then flesh colour, adnexed, 2-3 mm. 

 wide, somewhat crowded. Flesh bluish. Spores pink, angular, 8-10 x 

 6-7 IJL, 1-guttulate. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



