162 Naucoria. 



NAUCORIA, Fr. 



A. GYMNOTI. Pileus glabrous. Veil absent. Spores 

 rusty, not dingy rusty brown. 



* Gills free or slightly adnexed. 



lugubris, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. campan.-exp. wavy, often viscid, even, 

 pallid becoming rusty, opaque; g. free, very broad, crowded; s. 

 6 9 cm. glabrous, fusiformly rooting, pallid ; sp. 7 x 4. 



A form in pine woods has p. bullate, disc bay ; s. short. 



festiva, Fr. P. 2'3 cm. convex, subgibbous, even, glutinous, 

 usually olive-brown, isabelline when dry ; s. free, crowded, ventricose, 

 rusty ; s. 5 7 cm. hollow, fusiformly rooting, colour various, violet, 

 rufous, &c. ; sp. 12x6. (8x4 Sacc.) 



Every part variable in colour. 



[christinae, Fr. P. conico-acute, rather wavy, viscid, fiery cin- 

 namon when moist, tawny and shining when dry, then pale ; g. free, 

 pallid then fiery saffron ; s. cylindric, glabrous, rooting, dull blood-red ; 

 sp. 4 5 x 3 4. 



| meclullosa, Bres. Smell weak, like radishes. P. conico-campan. 

 exp. subumb. viscid, glabrous, tawny then paler ; g. crowded, almost 

 free, edge white-pruinose ; s. tinged fuscous, apex pale, pruinose, base 

 thickened and white-downy, pith white, separable ; sp. 7 9 x 45. 



[hilaris, Fr. P. thin, even, rather viscid, tawny orange, shining ; 

 g. yellowish rusty ; s. hollow, shining yellow. 



[subglobosa, A. and S. P. hemisph. even, rather viscid, yellowish ; 

 g. nearly free, very broad, rhomboid ; s. stuffed, thin, short, striate ; 

 sp. 8x4. 



hamadryas, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. convex, exp. gibbous, even, rusty 

 bay, yellowish red when dry and old ; g. attenuato-adnexed, rusty ; s. 

 5 7 cm. hollow, equal, glabrous, pallid; sp. 13 14 x 7. 



[nimbosa, Post. P. convex exp. umb. pruinosely velvety, rufous 

 brown ; g. broad, rusty, edge fimbriate ; s. everywhere pruinosely 

 velvety, fuscous below, pale above ; sp. 10 11 x 6. 



cidaris, Fr. P. 2- 3 cm. conical then campan. even, cinnamon 

 tan, paler when dry, edge wavy, striate ; g. ventricose, honey-colour ; 

 s. 2'5 3 cm. fusiform, blackish brown ; sp. 10 long. 



Differs from M. cucumis in absence of smell. 



[Jennyae, Karst. P. conical, exp. subumb. acute, even, glabrous, 

 dry, orange-bay; g. crowded; s. cartilaginous, fibrous inside, tough, 

 fusiformly narrowed below, apex thickened, reddish bay ; sp. 4 5 

 x3 4. 



cucumis, Pers. Smell strong, like cucumber. P. 1'5 2 '5 cm. 

 broadly campan. brownish bay when moist, edge paler ; g. pallid then 

 saffron ; s. 2 4 cm. blackish brown, apex thickened, hollow, pruinose ; 

 sp. 9 10 x 5 6. 



