INOCYBE. 183 



Damp places in woods, pastures, &c. 



Distinguished from its allies by the green base of the stem, 

 and by the gills becoming fuscous. (Fries.) 

 The disc of the pileus is sometimes greenish. 



Inocybe lanuginosa. Bull. 



Pileus J-f in. across, flesh rather thick, hemispherical then 

 expanded^ obtuse, minutely floccosely scaly, the scales of the 

 disc erect and squarrose, umber then yellowish ; gills 

 narrowed behind, slightly adnexed, separating from the stem, 

 more or less ventricose, thin, about 1 line broad, margin 

 slightly toothed, pallid ; stem about 1 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 fibrillosely scaly, apex powdered with white meal, solid, 

 paler than the pileus ; spores elliptic-fusiform, smooth, 

 8x4,*. 



Agaricus lanuginosus, Bulliard, t. 370 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 150 ; 

 Cke., niustr., pi. 582A. 



Agaricus flocculentus, Cke., Hdbk., Ed. i. No. 317. 



On the ground. 



Pileus umber, becoming yellowish ; smell weak. 



Inocybe dulcamara. A. & S. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, campanulate then convex, 

 at length expanded, umbonate, fuscous-olive, floccosely scaly, 

 silky towards the margin ; gills arcuato-adnexed, ventricose, 

 crowded, pallid then olive; stem imperfectly hollow, fibril- 

 lose from the cortina or partial veil, adpressedly scaly, paler 

 than the pileus, apex mealy ; spores elliptical, smooth, 8-10 

 X 5 p.. 



Agaricus (Inocybe') dulcamarus, Alb. & Schw., n. 489; 

 Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 288 ; Cke., Hdbk.,jp. 151 ; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 582B. 



In pine woods, &c. Gregarious, small, olive-fuscous, flesh 

 yellowish- white. In early specimens the scales of the pileus 

 are squarrose ; in autumnal forms adpressed. 



Inocybe plumosa. Bolton. 



Pileus 1-1 in. across, convex then expanded, disc squarrose 

 with erect fasciculate fibrils, margin fibrillose, mouse-brown ; 

 gills slightly rounded behind, adnexed, scarcely crowded, 

 rather ventrioose, smoky -white, margin entire; stem 



