INOCYBE. 193 



prominent umbo, at first conical then expanded, everywhere 

 adpressedly squamulose or fibrillose, cracked, brownish then 

 with an olive tinge ; stem 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal 

 or the extreme base slightly bulbous, rather firm, adpressedly 

 fibrillose, apex squamulosely mealy, pallid, but becoming 

 reddish when bruised, white then reddish inside, stuffed; 

 gills almost free, with a slender decurrent line on the stem, 

 soon ventricose behind, 2 lines broad, thick, rather distant 

 and rigid, whitish flesh-colour, darker at the base, olive when 

 adult ; spores elliptical, smooth, 8-10 x 5 /*.. 



Agaricus (Inocybe) hiulcus, Fries, Epicr., p. 175 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk.,p. 155; Cke., lllustr., pi. 397. 



On the ground, in pine woods, &c. 



Smell obsolete ; stem somewhat curved, equal, base slightly 

 bulbous ; pileus fuscous, then tinged olive. (Fries.) 



Inocybe Curreyi. Berk. 



Pileus 1^-2 in. across, convex then expanded, obtuse, longi- 

 tudinally fibrillose, slightly squamulose at the disc only, 

 slightly cracked, pale yellowish-brown; flesh very thin; 

 gills quite free, 2 lines or more broad, yellowish then with 

 an olive tinge; stem 2-3 in. long, 3 lines thick, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, minutely fibrillose, colour of the pileus, 

 or a little paler, solid, flesh dingy ; spores elliptical, smooth, 

 11 X 6/t. 



Agaricus (Inocybe} Curreyi, Berk., Outl., p. 155 ; Cke., 

 lllustr., pi. 398. 



In woods, &c. 



Distinguished from I. pyriodora by the absence of smell; 

 from I. Jastigiata by the (smooth spores ; and ^from /. rimosa- 

 by the stem not being mealy at the apex, and by the 

 squamules at the disc. 



Inocybe perlata. Cooke. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, convex then expanded, broadly um- 

 bonate, longitudinally fibrous, with darker fibrils, fuscous, 

 margin paler, incurved, disc dark bistre, nearly black; flesh 

 whitish, thick at the disc, remainder equal up to the margin, 

 about 1 line thick ; gills adnexed, rounded behind, 3 lines 

 broad, pallid then pale umber ; stem 3-4 lines long, - in. 

 thick, straight or curved, sometimes twisted, striate, pallid 



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