ENTOLOMA. 271 



Agaricus (Entoloma) Modes, Fries, Epicr., p. 144; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 120 ; Cke., Illustr., pis. 339, 373. 



In turfy swamps, &c. 



Smell of new meal ; taste watery. Distinguished by the 

 dark brown pileus, which often shows a purple tinge, and 

 the subglobose, coarsely warted spores. 



Entoloma bulbigermm. B. & Br. 



Pileus |-1 in, across, campanulate or hemispherical, 

 obtuse, minutely tomentosely scaly, shining white, flesh 

 thin, white; gills slightly adnexed, about l line broad, 

 pinkish salmon-colour; stem 2| 3 in. long, l line thick at 

 the apex, somewhat bulbous at the base, fibrillose, whitish, 

 hollow. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) bulbigenum, Berk. & Broome, Ann. 

 Nat. Hist., No. 1937; Cke., Hdbk., p. 120; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 315. 



Agaricus sericeus, Persoon, Icon, et Descr., i. t. 6, f. 4. 



Ag. (Entoloma)lpersooniana, Ph. & PI., Grev., x. p. 66. 



On the ground. 



Stem sub-bulbous and solid at the base, hollow above, 

 rather slender, 2| lines thick, pilose-squamulose ; pileus 

 shining, silky, convex, obtusely umbonate, white, then 

 pallid, substance rather fleshy ; fragile ; gills crowded, 

 2 lines broad, slightly adnexed, fleshy-red. (Persoon.) 



The bulb in our plant is much more decided than in 

 Persoon's figure, having a distinctly abrupt margin, and the 

 pileus is not so fleshy. The larger angular spores are as 

 wide as the basidia, and the hymenium abounds with largo 

 cystidia. Spores, including the angles, '015 mm. (=15 u). 

 (Phil. & Plow.) 



In Cooke's figures the stem is slightly thickened at the 

 base, and in every example has a small lateral, solid body, 

 resembling a very young specimen attached to the very base 

 of the stem. 



Entoloma Batschianum. Fr. 



Pileus -l in- across, at first slightly convex, soon um- 

 bonate, then depressed, even, glabrous, viscid, dark brown or 

 smoky-black, shining when dry, not hygrophanous, margin 

 distinctly involute at first ; flesh coloured like the pileus, 



