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tinge ; gills adnate, separating readily from the stem, rather 

 crowded, whitish, edge similarly coloured. (6) Among 

 grass under pines; stem firmer and more rigid; pileus 

 slightly striate, 1 in. across when expanded, livid, with black 

 squamules in the centre ; gills 2 lines broad, (c) In swamps. 

 Very slender ; stem filiform, weak and flexible, grey ; pileus 

 very slender, obtuse, greyish brown, then with a lilac tinge, 

 disc darker, punctiform ; gills adnexed, seceding, margin at 

 length brownish. Although very slender, not hygrophanous. 

 (Fries.) 



Nolanea verecunda. Fr. 



Pileus in. across, somewhat membranaceous, disc rather 

 fleshy, at first somewhat umbonate, then rather obtuse (never 

 depressed), indistinctly pellucidly striate to the middle when 

 humid, but the disc is always even, at first sight glabrous, 

 but when carefully examined seen to be obsoletely silky 

 towards the flocculose margin ; watery reddish or pallid, not 

 changing colour when dry ; gills adnate, seceding, rather 

 thick, distant, distinct, ventricose, segmentoid, 2 lines and 

 more broad, slightly ascending, whitish, watery; stem 

 1^-2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, rather firm, somewhat hollow, 

 cartilaginous, not very rigid, and when rubbed between the 

 fingers, splitting into fibrils, becoming pale, apex mealy. 



Agaricus (Nolanea} verecundus, Fries, Epicr., p. 156; Cke., 

 Hdbk., pi. 135 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 340A. 



**** Gills whitish. Pileus not hygrophanous. 



Nolanea rubida. Berk.. 



Pileus about ^- in. across, flesh very thin, convex, at length 

 expanded and umbilicate, minutely silky, whitish-grey then 

 ruf'escent, even ; gills adnate, attenuated behind, ventricose, 

 sometimes slightly decurrent, whitish then salmon-colour; 

 stem about in. long, thickest upwards; white, minutely 

 eilky, solid ; spores elliptical, smooth, 4-5 x 3 /u, ; no cystidia. 



Agaricus rubidus, Berkeley, Mag. Zool. and Bot., vol. i. t.. 2, 

 f. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 135 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 340s. 



On soil in hothouses. 



