IXOCYBE. 185 



** LACEBI. 



Inocybe pyriodora. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 across, disc fleshy, the remainder thin, ovata 

 then canipanulate, obtuse, disc very scaly, the rest everywhere 

 torn into fibrils, smoky or ochraceo-pallid, reddish when 

 young ; margin often incurved and wavy ; flesh becoming 

 reddish ; gills at first adnate, then somewhat emarginate, 

 crowded, thin, linear, often crisped, at first whitish then 

 brownish, margin whitish ; stem 3-6 in. long, ^-1 in. thick,, 

 almost equal, or attenuated at the base, often curved, ex- 

 ternally very fibrillose, pallid, apex powdered with white- 

 meal, solid, internally fibrous and soft, reddish ; fragile ; 

 spores pip-shaped, smooth, 10 X 6 p.. 



Agaricus (Inocybe) pyriodorus, Pers., Syn., p. 300 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 152 ; Cke., Jllustr., pi. 472. 



In woods. 



Smell pleasant, resembling pears or violets, Pileus fuscous, 

 then pallid ochraceous, fiesh with a red tinge. (Fries.) 



Pileus 1^3 in. broad, broadly and strongly umbonate, the 

 margin at length a little turned up, fibrilloso-squamulose ; 

 fleshy, pallid umber. Gills aduexed, ventricose, pale. Stem 

 23 in. high, 4 lines thick (solid in niy specimens and in 

 Bulliard's figure), fibrillose, white, when bruised somewhat 

 of the same hue as the pileus. Veil very fugacious. Odour 

 penetrating, like that of rotten pears or Huacinthus racemosusi. 

 (Berk.) 



Inocybe incarnata. Bres. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thick, convex, campanu- 

 lated, then expanded and gibbous or broadly umbonate, 

 fibrillose then squamulose, margin fimbriate, yellowish then 

 rufescent or tinged with flesh-colour ; stem solid, about 2 in. 

 long, 4-5 lines thick, attenuated and somewhat rooting at 

 the base, rather fibrillose, Tosy flesh-colour, white and mealy 

 at the apex ; flesh of the pileus white, becoming deep red 

 when broken ; gills sinuate, adnexed, crowded, broad, rather 

 fringed at the margin ; whitish then greyish-cinnamon, at 

 length spotted with red, or wholly rufescent ; spores elliptic- 

 ovate, 10 X G /A. 



