HYPHOLOMA. 385 



expanded, 1-1 J in. broad, even, superficially silky round the 

 margin from the veil, or squamulose, the remainder even and 

 glabrous, tawny, honey-colour, not hygrophanous. Flesh 

 thin, paler in colour than the pileus ; gills adnate, thin, 

 ventricose, broader (3-4 lines) than in Hypholoma fascicularis, 

 crowded, at first pale straw-colour, then clouded, obsolete 

 greenish. (Fries.) 



** VISCIDI. 



Hypholoma incomptus. Massee. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, campanulate then expanding, broadly 

 gibbous, even, viscid when moist, margin usually flexuous, 

 deep bay-brown, becoming slightly silky and orange-tawny 

 when dry ; flesh 2 lines thick, tawny, as is also that of the 

 stem; gills slightly rounded behind, adnate, crowded, 3-4 

 lines broad, thin, pallid then deep olive, finally clouded 

 with purple from the spores ; stem about 3 in. long, in. 

 thick, equal, pale above, dark ferruginous below, covered 

 with minute, spreading, ferruginous, fibrillose squamuless, 

 mixed with primrose-yellow tomentum, hollow, cavity small ; 

 spores purplish, obliquely elliptical, 8 x 3-5 //,. 



On stumps. Easily distinguished by the viscid, dark-bay 

 pileus, and the broad dark -olive gills clouded with purple. 



Hypholoma oedipus. Cke. (figs. 10, 14, p. 351.) 

 Pileus |-1 in. across, glutinous, fleshy in the centre, 

 membranaceous at the margin, at first turbinate or hemi- 

 spherical, with a ragged margin (which separates from the 

 inferior, very visible, and slightly darker evanescent ring), 

 then convex, with an even margin, smooth, dull, hygro- 

 phanous, disc umber, becoming pallid at the margin, which 

 extends slightly beyond the gills. Stem 2 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, enlarging downwards to a bulbous base, solid, fibrillose 

 below, pruinose above the median ring. Gills at first 

 whitish, becoming umber, adnate by their entire breadth, 

 sometimes with a minute decurrent tooth, plane, with a 

 somewhat granular margin. Spores dark brown. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) oedipus, Cke., Grevillea, vol. xiv. 

 p. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 204; Cke., Illustr., pi. 587A. 



Attached to decayed sticks or dead leaves. Solitary or in 

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