NOLANEA. 265 



Nolanea coelestina. Fr. 



Pileus up to $ in. across, flesh very thin, campanulate^ 

 obtuse or slightly umbonate, glabrous, margin striate and 

 often plane or upturned with age, pale blue, disc darker and 

 rather rough ; gills adnexed, 1^ line broad, rather crowded, 

 white then with a very slight tinge of pink ; stem 1-1^ in. 

 long, not a line thick, equal, often incurved at the base, even, 

 glabrous, dark blue, apex mealy, hollow. 



Agaricus (Nolanea) coelestinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 158; Cke.,, 

 Hdbk., p. 135 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 372u. 



On wood, also in pine-woods, &c. 



Solitary, inodorous. Stem soon hollow, 1^ in. long,, 

 scarcely a line thick, thinner upwards, apex with white 

 meal, rest glabrous, even, blue-black. Pileus thin, campa- 

 nulate, at length convex, obtuse, virgate, disc scabrid, 

 blackish, remainder sky-blue, not hygrophanous. Gills- 

 adnate, ventricose, very broad, greyish- white, margin same 

 colour. Spores pale rose-colour. A form growing in pine- 

 woods is slenderer than the form on oak trunks. Very 

 distinct from all other species of Nolanea. Kesembling 

 Leptonia in colour, but very distinct in structure. (Fries,)' 



Nolanea exilis. Fr. 



Pileus up to | in. across, membranaceous, conical then 

 expanded, striate, glabrous, livid-grey, the darker disc papil- 

 lose ; gills adnexed, rather crowded, whitish, then with a 

 tinge of pink ; stem 2-3 in. long, not 1 line thick, tough, 

 glabrous, greyish-green, apex naked, hollow. 



Agaricus (Nolanea) exilis, Fries, Syst. Myc., i. p. 206; 

 Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 210. 



Among grass, leaves, &c. 



Allied to N. chloropolia, but more slender and delicate ; 

 pileus varying on lilac. A variety found among Sphagnum 

 becomes elongated, and the margin of the gills becomes 

 brownish. (Fries.) 



(a) Among grass under beeches, &c., polymorphous. Stem 

 hollow, 23 in. long, ^ line thick, tough, even, glabrous, 

 naked, greyish-green ; pileus membranaceous, umbonate, 

 conical then expanded, in. broad, striate when moist, even 

 when dry (not hygrophanous), with sooty radiating lines 

 from the dark papilla, the rest livid-greyish or with a lilao 



