OMPHALIA 429 



1387. 0. umbellifera (Linn.) Fr. (= Omphalia pseudoandrosacea Bull, 

 sec. Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 69. Umbellifera, umbel-bearing. 



P. 1-2 cm., grey, bistre, straw colour, whitish or ochraceous, becoming 

 whitish, slightly fieshy-membranaceous, convex, then plane, broadly 

 obconic, faintly umbilicate, rayed with darker striae; when dry silky, 

 flocculose, rarely squamulose; margin infiexed at first, crenate. St. 

 2-5-3 cm. x 2 mm., concolorous, dilated towards the apex into thepileus, 

 sometimes pubescent, base white villose. Gills white, then cream, or 

 yellowish, decurrent, very broad behind, triangular, very distant, some- 

 times dichotomous, connected by veins. Flesh pallid, thick at the 

 disc. Spores white, elliptical, 7-9 x 4-5/i, 2-3-guttulate. Boggy 

 ground in woods and on mountains, also on rotten wood. April 

 Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. nivea Fl. Dan. Fl. Dan. t. 1015, fig. A. Nivea, snow white. 

 Differs from the type in being entirely snow white. In bogs. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. citrina Quel. Citrina, citron yellow. 



Differs from the type in being glabrous, citron yellow, and pellucid. 



var. viridis Fl. Dan. Fl. Dan. t. 1672, fig. 1. Viridis, green. 



Differs from the type in being pubescent, and bluish, then greenish. 

 Boggy ground, in woods and on hills. Sept. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. chrysoleuca (Pers.) Fr. (= var. abiegna B. & Br.) 



%puo-o5, gold; \eu/eo9, white. 



Differs from the type in being bright yellow then whitish. Growing 

 on fir stumps. 



var. pallida Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 260, t. 271, top figs. Pallida, pallid. 

 Differs from the type in being entirely pale grey. Bogs in woods. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. flava Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 260, t. 271, lowest figs. Flava, yellow. 

 Differs from the type in the golden yellow p. and st. On mountains. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. pyrifonnis (Pers.) Fr. Pyriformis, pear-shaped. 



Differs from the type in being entirely dark umber. Rotten beech 

 trunks and shady places. 



1388. 0. myochroa (Fr.) Rea. nfc, mouse; %/3o>9, colour. 

 P. 5-15 mm., reddish brown, or rufescent, becoming whitish with age, 



somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, umbilicate, striate to the middle, 

 margin crenulate. St. 1-2 cm. x 2-4 mm., whitish, apex rufescent; 

 base white, strigose. Gills yellowish, narrow, furcate at the margin, 



