ECCILIA. TUBARIA 437 



St. 2 cm. x 1 mm., reddish,, cartilaginous, attenuated downwards, 

 pruinose, or innato-fibrillose. Gills pink, decurrent, somewhat waved, 

 thick. Trama dark brown. Spores pink, nodulose. On the ground, 

 at the foot of and upon the stems of tree ferns in conservatories. 

 June. Rare. 



1421. E. acus W. G. Sm. Cke. IUus. no. 369, t. 613, fig. C. 



Acus, a needle. 



P. 5-15 mm., snow-white, submembranaceous, deeply umbilicate, 

 densely pruinose; margin incurved, striate. St. 2-3 cm. x 1mm., 

 white, cartilaginous. Gills pink, deeply decurrent, thick, distant. 

 Spores pink, nodulose. Amongst germinating coffee-seeds in coconut 

 fibre in conservatories. Aug. Rare. 



Spores ochraceous, or ferruginous. 



Tubaria W. G. Sm. 



(Tuba, a trumpet.) 



Pileus fleshy, or submembranaceous; margin incurved. Stem 

 central, cartilaginous. Gills decurrent, or broadly adnate. Spores 

 ochraceous, ferruginous, or rarely fuscous; elliptical, pip-shaped, or 

 almond-shaped; smooth, continuous. Cystidia present. Growing on 

 the ground, or on wood. 



1422. T. cupularis (Bull.) Fr. (= Lactarius cupularis (Bull.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 526, t. 602, as var. Cupularis, cup-shaped. 



P. 12 cm., rufescent, tawny, or reddish yellow, becoming light yellow- 

 ish, slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, disc sometimes de- 

 pressed, smooth. St. 36 cm. x 3-4 mm., tawny, or reddish tawny, 

 rarely whitish, attenuated upwards, naked. Gills tawny, or a little 

 deeper coloured than the p., decurrent, crowded, thin, edge often serru- 

 late. Spores "rusty, elliptical, 6 x 3//,"Massee. Mountainous heaths, 

 amongst grass, and under firs. Aug. Oct. Rare. 



1423. T. furfuracea (Pers.) W. G. Sm. (= Naucoria pellucida (Bull.) 

 Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 129. Furfuracea, scurfy. 



P. 1-4 cm., pale cinnamon, or tawny, becoming pale, hoary tan when 

 dry, fleshy, convex and obtuse, then flattened and sometimes um- 

 bilicate, slightly and somewhat pellucidly striate when moist, even 

 and slightly silky when dry, covered round the margin with the hoary, 

 silky squamulose, fugacious veil, very hygrophanous. St. 2-5 cm. x 

 24 mm., concolorous, but deeper in colour as the pileus becomes pale, 

 equal, floccosely furfuraceous when young, base villose with the 

 effused white mycelium. Gills concolorous, or bright cinnamon, sub- 

 decurrent, broad near the st., more or less distant. Flesh concolorous, 



