GALERA 409 



head 45 /z, base 12 x 9//," Eick. Pastures, bare soil in gardens, 

 and on dung. March Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1312. G. conferta (Bolt.) Fr. Bolt. Hist. Fung. t. 18. 



Conferta, crowded. 



P. 2-3 cm., fuscous, fuscous ochraceous when dry, hygrophanous, 

 submembranaceous, acutely conico-campanulate, fragile, striate, 

 smooth, often glittering with micaceous particles. St. 2-5 cm. x 1 

 2 mm., whitish, or cream colour, very fragile, silky, shining, naked, 

 attenuated at the base into a long root, striate, apex mealy. Gills white, 

 then fuscous ochraceous, slightly adnexed, then free, subdistant. Flesh 

 whitish, thin. Spores fuscous ferruginous, "ochraceous, pruniform, 

 10 p, " Quel. Very crowded, subcaespitose. Stoves, and on tan. Nov. 



1313. G. spicula (Lasch) Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 7, fig. 5, as Nau- 

 coria furfuraceus Pers. Spiculum, a little sharp point. 



P. 5-15 mm., brown ochre, membranaceous, conico-campanulate, 

 then expanded, hygrophanous, smooth, striate when moist, floccu- 

 lose when dry and atomate. St. 2-3 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, equal, 

 thickened at the base, firm, densely covered with white flocci. Gills 

 ochraceous, then cinnamon, adnate, ventricose, 1-5-2 mm. broad. 

 Flesh concolorous, whitish in the St., very thin. Spores cinnamon, 

 elliptical, 6-8 x 4/z, "with an apical germ pore. Cystidia stalked-capi- 

 tate; head 8-9 />t, stalk 3-4 x 3-4/i, base 18-20 x 15-18^" Rick. 

 Coconut fibre trunks, and fallen leaves. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1314. G. spartea Fr. o-Tra/oro?, esparto grass. 

 P. 5-12 mm., watery ferruginous, or cinnamon, tan when dry, 



hygrophanous, membranaceous, campanulato-convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, pellucidly striate when moist, smooth. St. pale tawny, date 

 brown at the base, tense and straight, equal, smooth, polished, flexile, 

 diaphanous. Gills darker than the p., wholly adnate, somewhat linear, 

 then plane, crowded. Flesh concolorous, becoming paler, thin, very 

 fragile. Spores ferruginous, "subelliptical, 6-8 x 3-4 /x, smooth. 

 Cystidia stalked-capitate, base subglobose, 15 x 12-15/x, head 5-6 /i" 

 Rick. Amongst moss on heaths, pastures, and on burnt soil. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1315. G. pygmaeoaffinis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 128, fig. 1. 



Ajjinis, allied to Naucoria pygmaea. 



P. 2-4 cm., subfuscous, or honey colour, then tan, fleshy membrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, then flattened, dry, delicately and under a lens 

 conspicuously reticulato-wrinkled, almost rugged or minutely granular. 

 St. 5-7-5 x 2 mm., shining white, fragile, equal, often striate and 

 pruinose at the apex. Veil scarcely any. Gills clay-ochraceous, then 

 ferruginous ochraceous, just reaching the st., almost free, thin, 



