122 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Tubaria, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot. (Seeman), 1870; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 187. 



The species are all small, and known amongst the Ochro- 

 sporae by the more or less decurrent, triangular gills. The 

 genus corresponds in structure to Eccilia and Omphalia. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



I. GENUINI. 

 Spores ferruginous. 



II. PHAEOTI. 

 Spores ferruginous-brown. 



I. GENUINI. 



Tubaria cupularis. Bull. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, rather fleshy, piano-depressed, 

 obtuse, even, glabrous, rufescent then yellow, hygrophanous ; 

 stem 2-3 in. long, naked, even, very slightly attenuated 

 upwards, whitish, hollow ; gills slightly decurrent, narrow, 

 crowded, dingy cinnamon ; spores elliptical, rusty, 6 x 3 /*. 



Agaricus cupularis, Bull., t. 554, f. 2 ; Cke., Hdb., p. 187 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 602. 



Amongst grass, &c. 



With the habit of Omphalia, but with ferruginous spores. 

 Cooke's figure, which is considered as a variety of the present 

 species, has a tawny stem. 



Tubaria furfuracea. Pers. 



Pileus ^2 in. across, rather fleshy, convex then plane, at 

 length depressed and umbilicate, hygrophanous, yellowish- 

 cinnamon, paler when dry; hoary and silky -squamulose, 

 especially near the margin from the veil; stem 1-lf in. 

 long, 1-2 lines thick, rigid, usually paler than the stem, 

 minutely flocculose, base with white down, hollow; gills 

 adnato-decurrent, rather distant, 1^ line broad, cinnamon; 

 spores elliptical, 10 x 6 p. 



