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FUNGUS-FLORA. 



** Scorpioidei. Growing in woods and damp uncultivated 

 places. 



Naucoria tenax. Fr. 



Pileus |-1 in. across, flesh rather thick, campanulate then 

 expanded, viscid, hygrophancus, glabrous, even, colour 

 between pale cinnamon and olive, or brownish-yellow, be-- 

 coming pale when dry, hygrophanous ; gills adnate, rather 

 distant, brownish-white, becoming pale ferruginous, stem 

 12 in. long, about 1 line thick, stuffed then hollow, equal, 

 adprt ssedly fibrillose, yellowish, becoming tinged fuscous or 

 olive, spores elliptical, 8 x 5 /u,. 



Agaricus (Naucoria^ tenax, Fries, Epicr., p. 198 ; Cke,, 

 Hdbk., p. 179; Cke., Illustr., pi. 617s. 



Amongst grass, and on sticks. 



Stem, depending on locality, sometimes ferruginous, at 

 others olivaceous. Pileus sometimes rugulose, usually cinna- 

 mon when moist, margin watery-yellow or with a greenish 

 tinge, ochraceous when dry. Gills pallid brownish-olive, 

 becoming ferruginous. (Fries.) 



Naucoria myosotis. Fr. 



Pileus 12 in. across, convex then expanded, subumbonate, 

 covered with a viscid pellicle, olive or brownish-green, 

 becoming pale and yellowish, disc darker; gills adnato- 

 decurrent, rather distant, at length rusty-brown, margin 

 serrulate, white ; stem 3-6 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal 

 sometimes flexuous, rather firm, hollow, squamulose, or with 

 dark fibrils, pallid, becoming brownish, apex powdered with 

 white meal; spores elliptical, 11-12 X 6 yu. 



Agaricus (Naucoria) myosotis, Fries, Epicr., p. 198; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 180 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 494. 



In damp localities, swamps, amongst sphagnum, &c. 



dark honey-yellow, disc darker, silky, veil remaining in tufts 

 at the margin ; gills rather distant, ventricose, with a de- 

 current tooth, margin minutely serrulate, paler, at first pale 

 yellow with a pink tinge, then ferruginous. Stem long, 

 hollow, striate, mealy at the apex, whitish then rufous, with 

 silky, fibrillose scales and evanescent fibrillose ring. 



