LEUCOSPORI. 115 



In woods about trunks. Burnham Beeches, 1875, & c - Nov. Coiiybia. 



The smell is very peculiar ; the gills very dark, so as to be easily mistaken for 

 those of a Hebeloma. B. 6* Br. Spores 7-10x3-4 mk. B. Name ran- 

 cid us, rancid. From the smell. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 170. Hym. Eur. p. 125. 

 Icon. t. 69. /". i. B. & Br. n. 1513. Kalchbr. t. 6. f. 4. Hoffm. Ic. t. 12. 

 f. 2. C. Illnst. PL 153. 



236. A. coracinus Fr. Pileus 4 cent. (\% in.) and more 

 broad, hygrophanous, fuscous and shining when in vigour, grey 

 and opaque when old, somewhat fleshy-cartilaginous, convexo- 

 expanded, sometimes umbonate, sometimes depressed, often 

 irregularly formed and undulated, even or wrinkled round the 

 margin, smooth ; flesh white, scissile. Stem 4 cent. (\ l /t in.) long, 

 4 mm. (2 lin.), but in becoming flattened, 8-10 mm. (4-5 lin.) 

 broad, hollow, remarkably cartilaginous, tough and rigid when 

 young, at length fragile, for the most part compressed, irregularly 

 formed (occurring also lacunose), somewhat attenuated down- 

 wards and not rooted, becoming fuscous, mealy with white 

 squamules at the apex. Gills obtusely adnate, separating, so that 

 they often appear free, broad (chiefly behind), scarcely crowded, 

 at first distinct, then connected by veins, whitish-grey. 



The gills are connected by veins chiefly in irregularly formed specimens. 

 Strong odour of new meal. 



In grassy places, fir plantations. Batheaston, 1865. Nov. 



Name *opa, a raven. Raven-black. The plant is not so dark in colour 

 as the name would indicate. Spores ovoid-spherical, dotted, 6-7 mk. Q. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. /. 170. Hym. Eur. p. 125. Icon. t. 69. f. 2. B. dr Br. n. 1207. 



c. must. PI. 153. 



237. A. ozes Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) or a little more broad, 

 hygrophanous, grey-fuscous when moist, becoming clay-fuscous, 

 pallid when dry, slightly fleshy, convex then plane, umbonate, 

 smooth, striate at the very margin when moist, even throughout 

 when dry. Stem 6-10 cent. (2^-4 in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, 

 containing a pith then hollow, equal or scarcely sensibly attenu- 

 ated from the base, lax, fiexuous, fragile, slightly striate, fulig- 

 inous-grey, white-mealy at the apex. Gills adnate, somewhat 

 ventricose, crowded, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, quite entire, 



fu ligino us- olivaceous. 



Odour strong of new meal. 



On the ground. Hothorpe, Norths., 1882. Feb. 



Gills cinereous, veined. B. & Br. Name o^w, to have a smell, either 

 sweet or stinking. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 171. Hym. Eur. p. 125. B. & Br. n. 

 1996. 



