OMPHALIA 425 



2-4 mm., light yellow, becoming pale, equal, tense and straight, 

 smooth. Gills whitish, deeply decurrent, 2 mm. broad, linear, arcuate, 

 subdistant. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-8 x 

 4-5/u,, 1-guttulate. Charcoal heaps, and boggy places. July Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. aurea Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1151, t. 1152, fig. B, as Omphalia 



Postii Fr. Aurea, golden. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., golden-yellow, very regular, infundibuliform, margin 



drooping. St. 5cm. x 3-4 mm., concolorous; base white, tapering. 



Gills white, slightly decurrent, crowded. Spores white, elliptical, 



7 x 3-5/z. On Sphagnum in swamps. Rare. 



1369. 0. pyxidata (Bull.) Fr. (= Omphalia hepatica (Batsch) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 254, t. 194, lower figs. Pyxidata, box-shaped. 



P. 2-3 cm., brick-rufescent, or rufous fuscous and radiato-striate when 

 moist, becoming pale, opaque, flocculose or slightly silky when dry, 

 membranaceous, pellucid, umbilicate, then infundibuliform. St. 

 2-5 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, then rufescent, tough, sometimes pruinose. 

 Gills flesh colour, then pale yellowish, decurrent, subdistant, narrow. 

 Flesh pallid, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5/n, 1-guttulate. 

 Amongst grass on lawns, and in woods. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1370. 0. leucophylla Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 73, fig. 4. 



\evfc6s, white; <f>v\\ov, leaf. 



P. 2-3 cm., dark cinereous, submembranaceous, infundibuliform; 

 margin reflexed, involute. St. 4 cm. x 2 mm., cinereous, slightly rigid. 

 Gills shining white, decurrent, arcuate, subdistant. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 6-7 x3-4/i. Woods, and pastures. April Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1371. 0. telmatiaea Berk. & Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 256, t. 240. 



T\/j,aTiaio?, marshy. 



P. 2-6 cm., brown, then mouse-coloured, rather membranaceous, 

 soon infundibuliform, silky, margin reflexed. St. 3-4 cm. x 3-6 mm., 

 cinereous, compressed ; base white, tomentose. Gills pallid, decurrent, 

 distant. Flesh brownish, thick at the disc. Spores white, "elliptical 

 with an oblique apiculus, 7 x 4ju" Massee. On Sphagnum. Aug. 

 Rare. 



1372. 0. striaepilea Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 73, fig. 3. 



Strix, a furrow; pileus, a cap. 



P. 2-3 cm., livid fuscous, becoming pale-white when dry, submem- 

 branaceous, convex, then flattened, umbilicate, the whole elegantly 

 striate, smooth. St. 5 cm. x 2 mm., becoming fuscous, slightly tough, 

 often flexuose. Gills whitish, slightly decurrent, somewhat crowded, 

 2-3 mm. broad. Flesh whitish, thin at the margin. Spores white, 



