Leptonia. 133 



*** Gills fuscous- or dusky -purple. 



[calimorpha, Weinm. P. conico-convex, umb. densely squamulose, 

 sooty or black ; g. nearly free, ventricose, with a purple sheen, edge 

 black; s. blackish-purple. 



[aquila, Fr. P. exp. deeply umbil. bay ; g. sinuato-adnexed, very 

 broad ; s. stuffed, fuscous, thickened upwards. 



[pyrenaica, Pat. and Doas. P. convexo-plane, 45 mm. slightly 

 umb. edge incurved, reddish brown ; g. pale red, adnate with a tooth ; 

 s. solid, curved, colour of p.; sp. 56. 



* * * * Gills pallid. Pileus yellow or greenish 

 then pale. 



incana, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. exp. umbil. glabrous, somewhat virgate, 

 brownish green ; g. adnate with decur. tooth, greenish white ; s. 

 3 5 cm. shining, brownish green ; sp. rough, 8 9. 



[euchlora, Lasch. P. campan. convex, not striate, yellow-green 

 with brown fibrils, darker disc impressed ; g. adnate ; s. squamulosely 

 fibrillose, greenish-yellow, base aerugineo-tomentose ; sp. 10 14 

 x6 8. 



formosa, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. exp. subumbil. slightly striate, yellow 

 wax-colour with brown adpressed fibrils and scattered squamules ; g. 

 adnate, pallid yellow; s. 4 5 cm. striate, shining, yellow; sp. 

 1012 x 8. 



var. suavis, Lasch. S. becoming bluish. 



chloropolius, Fr. P. 23 cm. exp. striate, livid, centre with 

 black squamules ; g. adnate, pallid ; s. 4 5 cm. even, bluish-green ; 

 sp. rough, 78 x 5. (1214 x 68 Sacc.) 



[pallens, Karst. P. convex exp. disc slightly depr. glabrous, 

 livid, pale and shining when dry; g. adnate, seceding; s. pallid, 

 glabrous; sp. rough, 9 10. 



[melleo-pallens, Karst. P. convex, entirely striate, glabrous, 

 shining, brownish honey-colour then pale ; g. soon free, edge darker ; 

 s. colour of p. base with white down ; sp. rough, 13 15 x 10 11. 



***** Gills grey or glaucous. Pileus hygr. 



asprella, Fr. P. 3 4 cm. exp. glabrous or fibrillose, striate, 

 umbilicus downy then squamulose, sooty then livid grey ; g. adnate, 

 equally narrowed to the edge ; s. 3 4 cm. slender, even, glabrous, 

 livid, tinged green or blue ; sp. 1012 x 6 8. 



[scabrosa, Fr. P. exp. umbilic. from the first, not striate, 

 squamulose, sooty-brown, then grey, hygr. ; g. adnate, segmentoid, 

 grey ; s. even, apex with black points and white meal. 



