406 NOLANEA. GALERA 



1300. N. rubida Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 367, t. 340, lower figs. 



Rubida, reddish. 



P. 8 mm., white or greyish, at length with a pale ruddy tinge, mem- 

 branaceous, convex, at length ura.loilica:te, finely silky. St. 3-4 x 1 mm., 

 white, or greyish, thickest above, minutely silky. Gills whitish, then 

 rose colour, adnate, broad, ventricose, attenuated behind, with fre- 

 quently a more or less distinct tooth, sometimes subdecurrent. Spores 

 pink, "elliptical, 4-5 x 3 /A, smooth. Cystidia none" Massee. Smell 

 of new meal. Among grass in a conservatory. March Nov. Rare. 



1301. N. rhodospora Br. & W. G. Sm. poSov, rose; cnropd, seed. 

 P. 2-5 cm., sooty-fibrillose, or rufescent pilose. St. 3 cm. x 2 mm., 



white, subbulbous. Grills salmon or rose, sinuate or free. Spores pink. 

 On earth, and wooden borders in stoves. May Sept. Rare. 



1302. N. minuta Karst. Minuta, small. 

 P. 11 '5 cm., pallid fuscous, paler when dry and shining, convex, 



sometimes umbilicate, striate up to the umbilicus. St. 3-5 cm. x 

 1*5 mm., pallid fuscous. Gills pallid, adnate. Spores pink, globose, 

 angular, 7-9 p. On peaty soil in woods. Sept. Uncommon. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 



Galera Fr. 

 (Galerus, a cap.) 



Pileus fleshy, or submembranaceous ; margin straight, at first ad- 

 pressed to the stem. Stem central, cartilaginous. Gills adnate, or 

 adnexed. Spores ochraceous, cinnamon, or ferruginous, elliptical, 

 prunif orm, or almond-shaped ; smooth ; with a germ-pore, rarely con- 

 tinuous. Cystidia generally present. Growing on the ground. 



*P. conico-campanulate, hygrophanous, rather even, when dry dotted 

 with soft particles; st. tense and straight; gills ascending, inserted 

 at the top of the cone, somewhat crowded. Veil none. 



1303. G. hapalaFr. (= Bolbitius apalus (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. 1. 127, 

 fig. 1, as Galera apala Fr. a-7raXo9, tender. 



P. 1-6 cm., livid becoming pale, quite white and shining when dry, 

 submembranaceous, conico-campanulate, then campanulate, obtuse, 

 regular, smooth, hygrophanous. St. 10-15 cm. x 2-4 mm., shining 

 white, rather fragile, slightly and equally attenuated upwards, very 

 straight, clothed with dense, erect, white flocci, base sometimes sub- 

 bulbous. Gills whitish, then bright ochraceous, adnexed, then free, 

 very narrowly lanceolate, thin, crowded. Flesh concolorous, very thin. 

 Spores tawny, pruniform, "12-14 x 7-8 /A" Sacc. Rich grassy places. 

 Sept. Rare. 



