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adnate gills, smooth, not rough, spores; and from A. Cnrreyi, with which it Inocybe. 

 agrees as to the spores, in its strongly umbonate pileus, nearly equal stem, and 

 adnate gills. 



On the ground among fir-leaves. Aboyne, 1862, c. Aug.- 

 Oct. 



Spores subelliptic, 7 mk. B. & Br.; 8 mk. W.G.S. ; pruniform, 12 mk. Q. 

 Name e, well ; flrjArj, a teat. With well-formed teat. From the prominent 

 umbo. B. &> Br. n. 1004. t. 13. / 2. C. Hbk. n. 329. Illust. PI. 386. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 298. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 232. 



553. A. destrictus Fr. Pileus 4-6 cent. (\%-2% in.) broad, 

 pallid then rufescent, fleshy, campanulato-convex then flattened, 

 umbonate and at length depressed round the umbo which becomes 

 fuscous, cracked, fibrillose then torn into scales ; flesh thin, white. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) rarely more long, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) thick, 

 solid, rather soft, somewhat equal, smooth, fibrilloso-striate, be- 

 coming red-whitish, somewhat mealy at the apex. Cortina thin, 

 fugacious. Gills uncinato-adnate, crowded, thin, 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 broad, whitish then grey-cinnamon. 



Odour unpleasant. Wholly distinct from A. rimosus. 



On the ground in pine woods. Coed Coch, 1880, &c. July. 



go, to strip off. Stripped. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 343. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 232. Icon. t. 108. B. &> Br. n. 1866. C. Illust. PL 387. Under A. 

 rimosus Bull. t. 599. 



554. A. descissus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, whitish 

 or becoming pallid fuscous, slightly fleshy, conical then campan- 

 ulate, split into radiate cracks when expanded, fragile, fibrillose, 

 striate at the margin. Stem 4 cent. (\y z in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, hollow when full grown, fragile, equal, undulated, somewhat 

 Jibrillose, white-pulvendent at the apex, externally and internally 

 white. Gills somewhat free, crowded, thin, linear, pallid, then 

 becoming fuscous unicolorous. 



Stature wholly that of A. geophyllus, but thinner, very much allied to A. 

 rimosus. 



In pine woods. Rare. Nov. 



Name de, and scindo, to split. From the split surface. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 

 343. Hym. Eur. p. 233. B. & Br. n. 1526. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 299. Batt. 

 t. 18. F. C. Illust. PL 428. A. 



* A. auricomus Batsch. Smaller, thinner. Pileus becoming yellow, 

 margin striate. Stem fistulose. Gills adfixed, ventricose, whitish-fuscous. 

 Remarkably cracked. It must be carefully distinguished from the yellowish 

 form of A. geophyllus. On burnt soil in woods. Name aurum, gold ; 

 coma, hair. Golden-haired. From the yellow fibrillae. Batsch f. 21. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 233. Berk. Out. p. 155. C. Hbk. n. 331. 



