180 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



remainder becoming yellowish, silkily-hoary ; gills free, 

 ventricose ; yellow then olive-bay ; stem 1^ in. long, 1^ line 

 thick, rather tough, with a reddish tinge, powdery, stuffed 

 then hollow, sometimes rather wavy; spores elliptical, 

 10 X 5 /*. 



Agaricus (Hebeloma) petiginosus, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 259 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 166; Cke., Illustr., pi. 508 B. 



On the ground in beech woods, &c. 



INOCYBE. Fries, (figs. 11-14, p. 3.) 



Universal veil fibrillose, concrete with the cuticle of the 

 pileus, which is either squamulose or fibrillose ; stem central, 

 its substance continuous with the flesh of the pileus, often 

 squamulose or peronate ; gills usually sinuate, rarely adnate 

 or decurrent, not becoming powdery ; spores often angular. 



Inocybe, Fries (as a subgenus of Agaricus), Syst. Myc., i. 

 p, 254; Cke., Hdbk., p. 149. 



The leading characteristics of the present genus are : 

 fibrillose or squamulose pileus, and more or less sinuate or 

 rounded gills not becoming powdered with the spores at 

 maturity ; spores dingy pale tan, often angular but some- 

 times smooth and elliptical. The species are mostly small, 

 dry, and fibrous, although in a few species the pileus 

 eventually becomes smooth and viscid, thus leading to 

 Hebeloma, its nearest ally. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



* SQUARROSI. 



" Pileus squarrose (covered with scales spreading in every 

 direction) ; stem scaly, coloured like the pileus. 



** LACERI. 



Pileus scaly or torn into fibrils (not cracked longitudi- 

 nally) ; stem coloured, paler than the pileus, fibrillose. 



