196 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



Tnocybe destricta. Fr. 



Pileus 1|-2| in. across, flesh thin, white; campanulato- 

 convex then expanded, umbonate, at length depressed 

 round Ihe brownish umbo, cracked, fibrillose, then torn into 

 t-quamules, pallid then rufescent ; gills uncinately adnate, 

 crowded, thin, 2 lines broad, white then greyish-cinnamon ; 

 stem solid, soft, about 2 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, almost 

 equal, glabrous, fibrillosely striate, white with a red tinge* 

 apex slightly mealy ; spores elliptical, smooth, 8 x 4 p.. 



Agaricus (Inocybe) destrictus, Fries, Epicr., p. 172; Cooke,, 

 Hdbk., p. 157 ; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 387. 



In pine woods, &c. 



Smell unpleasant. Distinguished from I. rimosa by the 

 adnexed gills and the stem becoming reddish with age. 

 I. asterospora is known from the present species by the nodu- 

 lose, irregular spores. 



Inocybe perbrevis. Weinm. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, rather fleshy, convex, obtusely 

 umbonate, then expanded and often depressed round the 

 itmbo, fibrosely squamulose or silky, rufous-brown then 

 paler and yellowish, margin somewhat striate and at length 

 >- plitting ; gills adnexed with a slight decurrent tooth, rather 

 distant, 1^ line broad, brownish-white then tan-colour; stem 

 not more than 1 in. long, 2 lines thick at the apex, slightly 

 attenuated towards the base, pallid, whitish fibrillose, 

 stuffed ; spores elliptical, smooth, 10-12 x 5 /x. 



Agaricus perbrevis, Weinm, p. 185; Cooke, Illustr., pi. 519; 

 Cooke. Hdbk., p. 157. 



In woods. 



Small, but rather firm, reddish-brown then becoming 

 yellowish ; stem paler, apex meah', attenuated downwards. 

 .Resembling in habit and colour some of the small species of 

 Lactarius. 



Inocybe descissa. Fr. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh thin except at the disc, 

 conical then campanulatus, fibrillose, becoming radiately 

 cracked and splitting when expanded, whitish or pallid 

 yellow-brown, margin often striate ; gills almost free, 

 crowded, thin, pallid then brownish ; stem 1-1^ in. long, 



