122 Pluteus. 



or cracked, with short, stout, erect, muricately squarrose scales at 

 disc, pallid then fuscescent ; g. adnexed, broad, ventricose ; s. rigid, 

 short, equal, wavy, floccosely squainulose, fuscescent, apex naked ; sp. 

 rough, 5 x 3 4. 



Resembling Inocybe lacera but smaller and shorter. 



pellitus, Fr. White. P. 24 cm. convexo-plane, even, dry, 

 silky ; g. flesh-colour ; s. 3 4 cm. stuffed, glabrous, even, shining ; 

 sp. - . 



var. punctillifer, Q. P. exp. whitish, centre tinged fuscous, and 

 with minute umber squamules ; s. whitish, squamulose below ; sp. 

 34. 



var. gradlis, Bres. P. white, becoming very faintly tinged umber 

 at disc ; s. cylindrical, glabrous ; sp. 5 6 long. 



[Robert!, Fr. P. convex then plane, obtuse, slightly hairy, not 

 sulcate, white tinged fuscous ; g. very broad, shining white ; s. apex 

 hollow, solid below and slightly thickened. 



Fries considers this sp. as near to P. semibulbosus notwith- 

 standing the white gills. 



* * Pileus atomately pruinose, subpulverulent. 



[plautus, Weinm. P. campan. exp. even, glabrous, tan when 

 moist, smoky hoary; g. flesh-colour; s. fistulose, soft like velvet, 

 blackish brown. 



var. terrestris, Bres. P. exp. edge wavy, dry, pruinosely velvety, 

 sooty black, rugulose ; g. edge subfimbriate ; s. velvety, blackish ; sp. 

 6x5. 



[cinereus, Q. Scurfy-flocculose, grey. P. with raised veins 

 forming pits ; s. springing from a white byssoid mycelium ; sp. glob. 

 68. 



nanus, Pers. P. 3 5 cm. exp. obtuse, rugulose, smoky, sprinkled 

 with floccose bloom ; g. flesh-colour ; 3 4 cm. solid, rigid, striate, 

 white ; sp. subgl. echin. 5 6. 



var. lutescens, Fr. Stem and g. or first only, yellowish. 



var. major, Cke. Larger. P. even, greyish. 



All the forms differ from P. cervinus and its vars. in having 

 subgl obose spores. 



[exiguus, Pat. P. exp. reddish brown, bristling with minute 

 squamules ; g. distant from stem, ventricose ; s. white, pruinose, 

 thickened at base, solid ; sp. 6 7 x 3. 



Near P. nanus^ but smaller and p. squamulose. 



melanodon, Seer. P. convexo-plane, umb. pulverulent, edge 

 slightly striate, dull yellow ; g. pale flesh-colour, edge with minute 

 black teeth ; s. fistulose, slender, firm, glabrous, shining. 



spilopus, B. and Br. (^spodopileus, Sacc.) P. 2 3 cm. exp. 

 subumb. radiately rugulose, brownish or dark fawn ; g. pale salmon ; 



