426 OMPHALIA 



"globose, 7-8 /x, echinulate. Basidia with 2-sterigmata " Eick. 

 Amongst moss, and leaves in woods. Oct. Nov. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1373. 0. epichysium (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Icon. pict. t. 13, fig. 1. 



7Ti^v(7i<;, a vessel for pouring out. 



P. 1-3 cm., cinereous-fuliginous and striate when moist, becoming 

 pallid, silky, or fiocculosely-squamulose when dry, membranaceous, 

 somewhat plane, umbilicate; margin somewhat reflexed. St. 2-5- 

 3 cm. x 2 mm., cinereous, tough, base white tomentose. Gills whitish 

 cinereous, shortly plano-decurrent. Spores white, elliptical, 8-10 x 

 4-5ju. On rotten stumps, and logs. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1374. 0. sphagnicola Berk. (= Omphalia philonotis (Lasch) Quel.) 

 Cke. Ulus. no. 257, t. 289, upper figs. 



Sphagnum, Sphagnum; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., dirty pale-ochre, becoming darker, somewhat fleshy, 

 moist, tough, infundibuliform, obscurely striate, minutely squamulose. 

 St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, somewhat crooked, apex minutely 

 squamulose at first. Gills dirty ochraceous, decurrent, narrow, sub- 

 distant, thick, edge flattish. Spores white, "elliptical, 6-9 x 3-5 //," 

 Karst. On Sphagnum in bogs, and woods. May Sept. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1375. 0. philonotis (Lasch) Fr. (= Omphalia sphagnicola Berk. sec. 

 Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 76, fig. 1. <f>i\o<;, loving; i/ort?, wet. 



Cinereous-fuliginous, fragile. P. 1-3 cm., membranaceous, the whole 

 deeply infundibuliform, hygrophanous,^occose when dry; margin erect. 

 St. 4 cm. x 2 mm., sometimes attenuated upwards; base white, 

 floccose. Gills deeply decurrent, subdistant, narrow, lanceolate. Flesh 

 greyish, thin at the margin. Spores white, elliptical or pip-shaped, 

 7-8 x 4-5 fi. On Sphagnum in bogs and amongst short grass. May- 

 Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1376. 0. oniscus Fr. (= Omphalia caespitosa Bolt. sec. Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 76, fig. 3. oviffKos, a wood-louse. 



P. 2-3 cm., dark cinereous, becoming pale, grey-hoary when dry, 

 submembranaceous, flaccid, fragile when old, convexo-umbilicate, or 

 infundibuliform, often irregular, undulato-flexuose or lobed, smooth; 

 margin striate. St. 2-5-3 cm. x 2 mm., grey, somewhat firm, tough, 

 sometimes compressed, curved. Gills cinereous, shortly decurrent, sub- 

 distant. Flesh grey, thick at the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 

 4-5/Li, 1-guttulate. Woods, and boggy places. Oct. Dec. Uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1377. 0. Luffii Massee. John Luff. 

 P. 2-3 cm., pattid, then white, convex, then depressed; margin up- 

 turned at extreme edge. St. 2-3 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, thickened above, 



