428 OMPHALIA 



C. Gills very distant, broad, generally thick. 



1383. 0. atropuncta (Pers.) Quel. (= Eccilia atropuncta (Pers.) Fr.) 

 Boud. Icon. t. 70. Ater, black; puncta, spotted. 



P. 1-1-5 cm., cinereous, or grey fuliginous, campanulate, then de- 

 pressed and cup-shaped, often slightly squamulose. St. 2-4 cm. x 

 2-3 mm., blackish grey, apex paler, covered with Hack punctiform 

 squamules, thickened upwards ; base pulverulent, white. Gills greyish 

 flesh colour, decurrent, thick, narrow, distant. Flesh of pileus pale 

 fuliginous, blackish towards the basal portion of the stem. Spores white 

 or yellowish, subglobose, or angularly-globose, 4-5-5-5 x 4-5)u., 1- 

 many-guttulate. Smell unpleasant. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1384. 0. demissa Fr. (= Ag. rufulus B. & Br.) Bres. Fung. Trid. 

 t. 35, fig. 1. Demissa, let down. 



P. 8-15 mm., fuscous-rufescent, submembranaceous, convex, then 

 expanded, obtuse, at length umbilicate, striate when moist, subflocculose, 

 obsoletely pruinose when dry; margin crenate. St. 1-5-3 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 liver-rufescent, becoming pale, shining, flexuose, base white tomentose. 

 Gills becoming purple, often forked, thick, subdecurrent, becoming very 

 broad behind, distant, interstices veiny. Flesh purple-vinous, becoming 

 pale. Spores white, "ovoid, 10-12 x 6-8 p,, granular" Bres. In woods 

 and waste places. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



1385. 0. hepatica (Batsch) Fr. (= Omphalia pyxidata (Bull.) Fr. sec. 

 Quel. ; Omphalia subhepatica (Batsch) Sacc.) Cke. Illus. no. 259, 

 t. 250, fig. B. Hepatica, like liver. 



P. 1-4 cm., rufous-flesh-colour when moist, slightly tawny, or tan 

 and somewhat shining when dry, coriaceo-membranaceous, tough, um- 

 bilicato-convex, then infundibuliform, often undulato-lobed, smooth. 

 St. 2-5 cm. x 2 mm., fuscous-flesh-colour, very tough, becoming com- 

 pressed, broader and dilated at the apex, rarely white-pruinose. Gills 

 whitish, becoming pale, deeply decurrent, distant, prominently con- 

 nected by veins, narrow, linear, sometimes crisped. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 5-8 x 4-5 p,. On lawns, and amongst short grass in woods. 

 Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1386. 0. muralis (Sow.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 259, t. 250, fig. C. 



Muralis, belonging to a wall. 



P. 820 mm., rufous brown, submembranaceous, tough, convex, 

 umbilicate, then infundibuliform, radiato-striate, smooth; margin 

 crenutate. St. 6-12 x 1-2 mm., concolorous, equal, smooth; base 

 white, floccose. Gills pallid, or flesh colour, decurrent, distant. Flesh 

 concolorous, thin. Spores white, elliptical, with, an oblique basal 

 apiculus, 9-10 x 4'5-5/t. On old walls, sandy banks, and bare soil 

 in woods. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



