HYPHOLOMA. 393 



when dry truly rugulose, rather atomate, ochraceous becom- 

 ing pale. Gills subadnate, crowded, dry, white then flesh- 

 colour, at length brown. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma catarius. Fr. 



Pileus i-| in. across, flesh thin, hemispherical, then 

 expanded, even, glabrous, hygrophanous, ochraceous, becom- 

 ing paler when dry ; gills adnate, narrow, rather crowded, 

 whitish then brown; stem 1-1^ in. long, 1-1 1- line thick, 

 equal, white, rather shining, base incrassated and covered 

 with white floccose down, apex striate, hollow ; ring superior, 

 fugacious, often attached in fragments to the margin of the 

 pileus ; spores elliptic-oblong, 6 x 3 /u,. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) catarius, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 296; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1176 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 337. 



Agaricus felinus, Passerini (not of Persoon). 



On the ground amongst grass. 



Gregarious, subcaespitose, ochraceoias, pileus scarcely 1 in. 

 diameter. Stem about 1A in. long. Spores 6x3 u. 

 (Cooke.) 



Hypholoma leucotephrum. B. & Br. 



Tufted ; pileus 2-3 in. across, at first pallid, subcampanu- 

 late, rugose, then convexo -expanded and whitish ; gills 

 narrow, 1| line broad, slightly adnate, greyish-white, grey, 

 then blackish ; stem 3-4 in. high, ^ in. thick, silky-fibrous 

 below, apex striate or sulcato-striate, fistulose, ring ample, 

 here and there appendiculate from margin of pileus ; spores 

 purple-brown, 10 x 6 p. 



Agaricus (Hypholoma) leucotephrm, B. & Br., Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 n. 1256; Cke., Illustr., t. 548. 



In large masses at the base of ash-trees. This is clearly 

 different from A. Candolleanus and A. appendiculatus. The 

 pileus is not of a rich brown when young, nor are the gills 

 when old at all brown. (B. & Br.) 



Hypholoma egenulus. B. & Br. 



Solitary. Pileus 1| in. across, hemispherical then ex- 

 panded, umbonate, watery white, when dry snow-white, 

 not decidedly rugose or atomate, quite smooth as if gummed, 

 margin finely striate, appendiculate; gills slightly ventri- 

 cose, adnate with a decurrent tooth, rather distant, purplish- 



