NOLANEA. 259 



very thin ; conico-camparmlate, pale grey, shining like silk, 

 adorned with dark brown fasciculate fibrils which are free 

 at one end, disc rather squaniulose ; gills adnate, ventri- 

 cose, distant, grey, darker at the base ; stem about 1 in. 

 long, not 1 line thick, equal, somewhat strigose and covered 

 with brown down, hollow, slightly wavy ; spores subglo- 

 bose or slightly oblong, apiculate, nodulose, 7-8 p. ; cystidia 

 absent. 



Agaricus (Nolanea) Babingtonii, Bloxam, in Berk., Outl., 

 p. 148; Cke., Hdbk., p. 133 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 377A. 



On the ground. 



Berkeley says of the gills "glistening with the white 

 antheridia," presumably referring to projecting points in the 

 hymenium, but I fail to find cystidia in the type specimens. 



Nolanea mammosa. Fr. 



Pileus i 1 in. across, flesh very thin, conico-campanulate, 

 acutely umbonate or papillate, slightly striate, glabrous, pale 

 brown, pale dingy ochre and silky when dry; gills adnexed, 

 1 line broad, rather crowded, greyish with a pink tinge at 

 maturity, separating from the stem ; stem about 2 in. long, 

 sometimes more, l line thick at the apex, thinner down- 

 wards, rigid, shining, glabrous, fragile, apex powdered with 

 white meal, hollow ; spores oblong, nodulose, 7-8 X 5-6 //, ; 

 no cystidia. 



Agaricus mammosus, Linneus ; Fries, Spic., p. 7 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 133 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 377s. 



Among short grass in open, sunny places. 



Pileus tawny brown. Stem elongated, fragile, shining. 

 (Cooke.) 



Nolanea juncea. Fr. 



Pileus about f in. across, membranaceous, conical then 

 expanded, radiately striate, sooty-umber, disc somewhat um- 

 bilicate or even papillate or umbonate, slightly squamulose ; 

 gills adnexed, seceding, about 1 line broad, rather distant, 

 grey then purple-brown; stem 2-3 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 equal, brown, hollow. 



Agaricus (Nolanea) juncea, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 208; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 133 ; Fries, Icon., pi. 99, f. 2. 



In swamps among Sphagnum, and in woods. 



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