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Very protean and changeable. Always watery (moist) and very fragile, in- Nolane; 

 odorous, of a dirty colour, nearest to A. sericeus. Easily distinguished from 

 others by \\sfibrous although slender and rigid stem. Colour various : fulig- 

 inous, fuscous, livid-isabelline, pallid-brick, &c. Among numerous forms the 

 following is to be noted, frequent in moist pine woods in summer : pileus com- 

 monly obtuse, striate, brick-colour then becoming pale ; stem long, slender, 

 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.), tense and straight, longitudinally fibrillose ; gills almost 

 adnate, linear, narrow, ascending, crowded, pallid. 



In pastures and open woods. Common. May-No v. 



Stem splitting into fibres. Spores irregular, angled, 7-11 mk. K. ; with 4 

 or 5 blunt angles, 8-12 mk. B. ; 6x 10 mk. W.G.S. Nzmepascuus, of pas- 

 ture. Pers. Comm. in Schceff. t. 229 (not Syn.) Fr. Monogr. i. p. 292. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 206. Berk. Out. p. 147. C. Hbk. n. 281. Illust. PI. 376. S. MycoL 

 Scot. n. 263. Buxb. C. 4. /. 21. /. i. Batt. t. 25. E.Bolt. t. 35. 



468. A. Babingtonii Blox. Pileus scarcely 12 mm. ( l / 2 in.) 

 broad, cinereous, shining like silk, adorned with dark-brown 

 subfasciculate fibres, which are free at one end, conico-campanu- 

 late ; disc subsquamulose, margin straight. Stem about 2.5 

 cent, (i in.) long, not 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, equal, fistulose, clothed 

 with dark-brown down, substrigose. Gills adnate, ventricose, 

 distant, cinereous, darker at the base. 



Gills glittering with little points, (the white antheridia). The form of the 

 spores is peculiar, resembling that of some Eunotia, oblong, ventricose on the 

 outer side, rather irregular, sometimes with a distinct septum. 



In wood. Rare. Oct.-Nov. 



Name after C. C. Babington. Blox.B. &> Br. n. 680. PI. xv./. i, 903*. 

 Berk. Out. p. 148. C. Hbk. n. 284. Illust. PL 377. a. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 207. 



469. A. mammosus Linn. Pileus umber or fuliginous when 

 moist, isabelline-silky when dry, hygrophanous, membranaceous, 

 conico - campanulate, papillate, rarely obtuse, striate, smooth. 

 Stem commonly 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) 

 thick, rigid, fistulose, remarkably cartilaginous, tense and straight, 

 slightly thickened and white-mealy at the apex, otherwise pol- 

 ished, even, very smooth, fuliginous-livid. Gills adnexed, separ- 

 ating-free, ventricose, not crowded, but only slightly distant, grey, 

 then hoary-rose-colour. 



Odour peculiar. At first sight it resembles A. sericeus, with which it was 

 joined by Bulliard (/. 526), but it is remarkably different. Often in company 

 with Hygrophorus conicus. It varies in woods with the stem compressed and 

 the gills pure rose-colour. 



On lawns. Coed Coch, 1872, &c. Sept. 



Spores irregular, angled, globose, 7-10 mk. K. ; mostly 5-angled, 12-14 x 8 

 mk. B. Name mamma, a breast. From its shape, and being papillate. 

 Linn. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 293. Hym. Eur. p. 207. Icon. t. 98. /. 4 (thinner 

 form). B. & Br. n. 1343. C. Illust. PL 377. b. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. 

 Nat. 1885, /. 22. Batschf. 5. Bull. t. 526 (under A. sericeus}. 



