252 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Among grass, &c. 



Distinguished from L. lampropoda by the pileus being 

 depressed from the first and the slender stem with black 

 points at its apex. From L. serrulata the present species is 

 known by the pileus not being umbilicate, the absence of 

 blue on the gills, &c. (Fries.) 



Leptonia solstitialis. Fr. 



Pileus up to f in. across, flesh very thin except at the 

 disc, soon becoming expanded and depresed round a central 

 papilla or urnbo, rugulose, innately fibrillose, pale brownish 

 or fawn-colour; gills emarginate, 1J line broad, whitish 

 with a tinge of pink, margin same colour; stem about 1J 

 line long, 1 line thick, glabrous, not punctate with black 

 at the apex, smoky, imperfectly hollow; spores irregular, 

 12-14 x 7 p. 



Agaricus (Leptonia) solstitialis, Fries, Epicr., p. 152 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 130; Cke., Illustr., pi. 332u. 



Among grass, &c. 



Appears to be a distinct species, marked by absence of a 

 blue tinge, and in not having the stem spotted with black 

 points. 



** Gills bluish. 



Leptonia serrulata. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, convex, umbilicato- 

 depressed, not striate, squamulose, at first blackish-blue, 

 smoke-colour when old, not hygrophanous, shining when 

 dry ; gills adnate, greyish-white, margin serrulate, black, at 

 length greyish flesh-colour ; stem about 1 in. long, 1 line 

 thick, cartilaginous, imperfectly hollow, equal, glabrous, 

 paler than the pileus, apex with black points, base with 

 white down ; spores irregular, 12-14 X 6-8 p. 



Agaricus (Leptonia) serrulatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 153; Cke. r 

 Hdbk, p. 130 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 333 ? 



Among grass, &c. 



Kigid. Stem black or steel-blue, glaucous. Pileus at 

 first blue-black, without striae, black and shining when 

 old, but smoky and slightly striate when rnoi*t ; paler and 

 blackish-virgate when growing in woods. (Fries.) 



