278 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



more or less umbonate, grey, reticulated with raised ribs ; 

 gills rounded behind and very slightly adnexed, 2 lines 

 broad, rather distant, flesh-colour ; stem 1^2 in. long, 2 lines 

 thick, fibrillose and tomentose, solid, paler than the pileus ; 

 spores elliptical, smooth, 6 x 3 5 /x ; no cystidia. 



Agaricus (Entoloma*) Thomsoni, Berk. & Broome, Annals 

 Nat. Hist., no. 1523; Cke., Hdbk., p. 123; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 374. 



Among grass in a plantation. 



Distinguished by the raised ribs on the pileus. 



Entoloma tortipes. Mass. 



Pileus about 3 in. across, at first convex and broadly 

 umbonate, then expanded and depressed round the umbo, 

 margin arched, flexuous, even, glabrous, when moist dark 

 brown, shining, cinnamon when dry and then silky-shining ; 

 flesh about 1 line thick, dark when moist, paler when dry, 

 often splitting at the margin ; gills broadly adnate with a 

 minute sinus, seceding and appearing to be free after the 

 expansion of the } ileus, thin and soft, crowded, edge entire, 

 ^ in. or more in breadth behind, tapering towards the margin, 

 pale dingy pink, stem 2-2| in. long, ^ in. thick or more, 

 flexuous or angularly bent, whitish tinged with cinnamon, 

 corticated, silky-fibrillose, solid ; spores elliptical, smooth, 

 5 X 3 p. ; no cystidia. 



Among grass. Solitary. Shining as if oiled when moist. 

 Taste and smell none. Allied to Entoloma clypeata, but 

 qxiite distinct in the small, smooth, elliptical spores. The 

 margin of the gills entire. 



*** NOLANIDEI. 



Entoloma clypeatum. Linn. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, campanulate then expanded, umbo- 

 nate, glabrous, fragile, lurid when moist, grey with darker 

 spots or lines when dry; flesh thin, white when dry; gills 

 rounded behind, slightly adnexed, becoming free, 3-4 lines 

 broad, ventricojse, rather distant, dingy, then powdered with 

 red from the spores, margin serrulate, especially behind ; 

 stem stufied at length hollow, entirely fibrous, 3-4 in. long, 



