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the margin, obtuse, even, smooth, dingy yellowish, margin 

 at length becoming blackish; gills emarginate, broad, 

 scarcely crowded, ferruginous ; stem 1-^-2 in. long, 3 lines 

 tbick at the apex, attenuated downwards, fibrillosely striate, 

 with reddish fibrils, becoming pale ; spores elliptical, 9 x 5 p.. 



Agarictts capniocephalus, Bulliard, Champ. Fr,, t. 547, fig. 2; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 165; Cke., lllustr., pi. 419. 



On the ground. 



Hebeloma ischnostylum. Cooke. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, convex then expanded, broadly um- 

 bonate, slightly viscid, white or a little pallid at the disc, 

 margin thin ; gills rounded behind, adnexed, slightly serrate 

 at the margin, whitish then dingy tan-colour ; stem about 

 2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal or a little thickened at the 

 base, smooth, naked, whitibh ; spores elliptical, 12 x 7 //,. 



Agaricus (Hebeloma) isclmostylus, Cke., Grevillea, xii. p. 98 ; 

 Cke., lllustr., pi. 420. 



On the ground among grass. 



Inodorous, or with a faint odour of Spiraea. Somewhat 

 resembling H. nudipes in general appearance and structure, 

 but distiuguished by the whitish pileus, 



*** PUSILLI. 



Hebeloma magnimamma. Fr. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, disc fleshy, remainder thin, with 

 a large projecting umbo, convex then plane, naked, brick- 

 red, becoming pale; gills obtusely adnate, crowded, pallid 

 then ferruginous; stem 1-1^ in. long, 1^- line thick, equal, 

 glabrous, naked, pallid-yellowish, imperfectly hollow. 



Agaricus (Hebeloma^ magnimamma, Fries, Mon., ii. p. 299 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 165; Cke., lllustr., pi. 508A. 



Among grass. 



Veil absent, hence the pileus has no trace of superficial 

 ailkiness. 



Hebeloma petiginosum. Fr. 



Pileus about J in. across, disc fleshy, remainder thin, 

 conico-convex then expanded, dry, the gibbous disc brown. 



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