INOCYBE. 191 



Veil floccoso-fibrillose, very fugacious, stem 1-1 J in. high, \ a 

 line thick, fistulose, shining purple, pruinose with fawn- 

 coloured meal. In a flower-pot. (Klotzsch.) 



*** BIMOSI. 



Inocybe schista. Cke. & Sm. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, carapanulate, broadly subumbonate, 

 flesh thin, equal, dingy like that of the stem, cracking 

 longitudinally, rather tibrillose, bay-brown; gills adnate 

 with a decurrent tooth, rather ventricose, 3 lines broad, 

 tawny-rufous at maturity, margin pale, serrate ; stem about 

 3 in. long, 5-6 lines thick, equal, twisted, paler than the 

 pileus, solid. 



Agaricus (Inocybe) schistus, Cooke & Smith; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 154; Cke., Illustr., pi. 504. 



On a lawn. 



Distinguished by its large size, thick, twisted stem, and 

 broad gills as bright in colour as those of a Flammula. It is 

 a pity that the colour of the spores was not noted, as the 

 colour of the gills suggests other than the genus Inocybe, 

 although the longitudinally fibrillose cracking pileus agrees 

 with the present genus. 



Inocybe fibrosa. Sow. 



Pileus about 4 in. across, flesh very thick at the disc, and 

 2-3 lines thick nearly up to the margin, white, somewhat 

 campanulate with a broad, obtuse umbo, silky, even, at length 

 cracked, margin wavy, cracked, pale, yellowish-brown ; gills 

 free, crowded, 3-4 lines broad, narrower behind, very pale 

 dingy ochre, margin uneven ; spores elliptical, minutely 

 warted or rough, 12-14 x 6 /x; stem 4-5 in. long, 1 in. thick 

 at the base, attenuated upwards, striate, flocculosely scaly 

 above, pale, solid. 



Agaricus fibrosus, Sowerby, Fungi, t. 414; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 155; Cke., Illustr., t. 454 (after Sowerby). 



In fir woods. 



The figure in " Illustrations " is reproduced from Sowerby's 

 original drawing, which is somewhat different in colouring 

 from his published plate. (Cooke.) 



