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Noianea. 470. A. junceus Fr. Pileus not 2. 5 cent, (i in.) broad, fulig- 



inous when fresh, livid when dry, hygrophanous, wholly mem- 

 branaceous, conical then campanulate, very obtuse or umbilicate 

 and somewhat squamulose at the disc, striate. Stem 7.5 cent. 

 (3 in.) long, not 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, cartilaginous, fistulose, 

 slender, equal, round or compressed, even, smooth, fuscous, then 

 livid-fuscous. Gills ascending, adnexed, separating, somewhat 

 distant, oblong, grey. 



Pileus becoming black and shining when scorched by the sun. Fragile, in- 

 odorous ; stature that of A.filopes. It varies in a singular manner with the 

 pileus papillate-cuspidate. 



In wood. Caernarvonshire. Oct. 



Spores pretty regularly 6-angled, often with one larger angle, 10-12 mk. B. 

 Name juncus, a rush. Growing in rushy marshes. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 294. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 207. Icon. t. 99. /. 2. B. & Br. n. 1116. C. Hbk. n. 285. 



471. A. fulvo-strigosus B. & Br. Pileus 18 mm. (|^ in.) broad, 

 12 mm. (% in.) high, grey, conical, slightly wrinkled. Stem 5 

 cent. (2 in.) long, about 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, furfuraceo-squamu- 

 lose, clothed at the base with rigid red hairs, and tinted with the 

 same colour above. Gills adnate, grey. 



The peculiar character of the strigas separates this from all other species. 

 On the ground in wood. East Farleigh, 1876. Sept. 



Spores 13 x 9 mk. B. & Br. Namefulvus, tawny ; strlgosus, strigose. 

 From the peculiar strigose stem. B. & Br. n. 1650. 



** Gills becoming yellow, or rufescent. 



472. A. pisciodorus Ces. Pileus 1-4 cent. (#-i}4 in.) long, 

 tawny-cinnamon, somewhat membranaceous, conical then cam- 

 panulate, then convex, obsoletely umbonate, "velvety -soft. Stem 

 5-6 cent. (2-2% in.) long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, somewhat fis- 

 tulose, tough, very thinly pruinate, chestnut-brown then becoming 

 black, paler at the apex, somewhat velvety. Gills slightly adnexed, 

 pale yellowish then flesh colour, at length slightly tawny. 



Smell of rotten fish. 



Among decayed leaves, &c. Frequent. Oct. 



I have failed to detect any difference between this and A. cucumis. On ex- 

 amining many specimens of A . cucumis, growing together, so that they were 

 under exactly similar conditions of soil, &c., I found the spores shading from 

 brown to pink. The odour changed from being fishy at first to that of cucum- 

 ber as the plant dried. The colour, moreover, varied. Name piscis, fish ; 

 odor, smell. Cesati in Crypt. Ital. i. /. 61. t. 3. f. 2. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 208. S. Mycol. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. vol. vi. p. 214. C. lllust. PL 378. a. 



