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flexuous, smooth, tough, for the most part fuscous-black, of the Naucoria. 

 same colour as the pileus at the apex. Gills adfixed, separating- 

 free, ascending, ventricose, crowded, 4 mm. (2 lin.) and more 

 broad, honey-colour or cinnamon-clay. 



Almost inodorous. It occurs smaller and more elegant, with the pileus dark 

 tawny-cinnamon, the stem straight, and the gills less crowded. It approaches 

 A. cucumis. 



In pine woods, c. Hereford, 1884. 



Name cidaris, an ornament, tiara. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 367. Hym. Eur. p. 

 255. Icon. t. 123. / 2 var. minor. Grevillea, vol. xii./. 98. C. lllust. PL 

 451- 



618. A. cucumis Pers. Pileus 2.5-4 cent. (1-1% in.) broad, 

 when moist bay-brown-fuscous, becoming somewhat purple and 

 paler towards the margin, when dry fawn or tan colour, slightly 

 fleshy, broadly campamilate, obtuse, smooth, even. Stem 2.5-5 

 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 3 mm. (\ l / 2 lin.) thick, firm, tense and straight, 

 attenuated downwards, stuffed, hollow thickened and somewhat 

 pruinose upwards, date-brown or fuscous-blackish, paler at the 

 apex. Veil none. Gills adnexed, very ventricose, crowded, dis- 

 tinct, pallid then somewhat saffron-yellow. 



Spores ferruginous. It varies smaller, with the pileus somewhat membran- 

 aceous, papillate, slightly striate when moist. Odour of cucumber. 



On the ground in fir woods, and on sawdust. Frequent. Sept.- 

 Nov. 



See remarks under A. pisciodorus. A. cucumis in certain stages smells 

 strongly of rotten fish. Spores 8x3 mk. W.P. ; pruniform, nucleate, 10 mk. 

 Q. Name cucumis, cucumber. Of the odour. Pers. Syn. p. 310. Fr. 

 Monogr. i. /. 368. Hym. Eur. p. 255. Berk. Oiit. p. 159. C. Hbk. n. 358. 

 lllust. PI. 452. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 332. A. fuscipes Sow. t. 344. 



619. A. anguineus Fr. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) and more broad, 

 pale yellowish or rufous, somewhat tan when dry, slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate then convex, gibbous, even, smooth, but when 

 young covered near the margin with a superficial silky zone from 

 the fibrils of the veil. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 4-6 mm. 

 (2-3 lin.) thick, and more at the thickened base, somewhat hollow, 

 somewhat flexuous, densely white-fibrillose, hence marked with 

 silky spots when dry, bay-brown. Gills somewhat free, ascend- 

 ing into the top of the cone, crowded, somewhat linear, at first 

 pallid-isabelline, then ferruginous. 



Manifestly allied to A. cucumis, but larger, more robust, and remarkable 

 especially for the traces of the veil. 



On the ground. West Lynn, c. Nov. 



