416 PSATHYRA 



III. P. and st. at the first floccose or fibrillose from the 

 universal veil. 



1336. P. frustulenta Fr. Frustuknta, full of small pieces. 

 P. 23 cm., watery ferruginous, but somewhat pallid, becoming pale 



when dry, submembranaceous, very fragile, campanulate, then hemi- 

 spherical, obtuse, somewhat striate when moist, whitish floccose at or 

 about the margin. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2 mm., whitish, equal, somewhat 

 undulate, fibrillose, or sprinkled with white flocci. Gills watery cinnamon, 

 then fuscous, adnate, ascending, crowded. Flesh thin at the disc. 

 Spores "brown, short, elliptical, almost round, 6-7 x 4-5 fi, smooth. 

 Cystidia fusiform, 45-50 x 10-12/u," Rick. Amongst damp gravel. 

 Woods. Sept. Rare. 



1337. P. bifrons Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 616, t. 594, fig. A. 



Bifrons, with two faces. 



P. 5-20 mm., ochraceous brown, tinged with red, pale tan when dry, 

 submembranaceous, campanulate, obtuse, slightly wrinkled, covered 

 with a delicate evanescent veil when young; margin thin, transparent. 

 St. 4-6 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, thickest at the base, straight, very 

 brittle, minutely satiny, naked. Gills pinkish cinereous, adnate, moder- 

 ately broad ; edge white, composed of minute wavy teeth Flesh yellow- 

 ish, thin. Spores cinereous purple, elliptical, obtuse at the one end, 

 subapiculate at the other, 9-10 x 4-5 /x. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 subulate, 36-40 x 6-8 /A, blunt" Rick. Woods, hedgerows, and wood 

 heaps. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. semitincta Phill. Cke. Illus. no. 616, t. 594, fig. B. 



Semi-, half; tincta, dyed. 



Differs from the type in the pinkish p., with ochraceous disc. Woods, 

 and hedgerows. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1338. P. fatua Fr. (= Hypholoma fatuum (Fr.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 618, t. 595, fig. A. Fatua, foolish. 



P. 3-8 cm., tan fuscous, ochraceous clay when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, oval, then campanulate, at length expanded, obtuse, everywhere 

 adpressedly fibrillose when young (the fibrils soon fugacious), then smooth, 

 rugulose and whitish clay colour when full grown ; margin somewhat 

 undulate, sometimes appendiculate with the veil. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 

 46 mm., shining white, somewhat firm, soon smooth, apex striate and 

 white mealy, base white villose. Gills white, then fuscous, adnate, 

 linear, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded, edge often white. Flesh concolorous, 

 thin. Spores brownish purple, elliptical, "12-13 x 6-7 /x" Sacc. 

 Caespitose, rarely solitary. Thickets, gardens, and rich pastures. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



