DERMINI. 289 



*** P ileus destitute of scales, silky or sprinkled with atoms. Naucoria. 



648. A. carpophilus Fr. Pileus 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) broad, 

 somewhat tan when moist, pallid, even whitish when dry, hygro- 

 phanous, somewhat membranaceous, convex, obtuse, furfurate 

 with shining atoms, sometimes at the same time floccoso-squam- 

 ulose. Stem short, scarcely 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, filiform and 

 sometimes capillary, stuffed or obsoletely fistulose,/<z//z#, at first 



furfuraceous, then naked. Gills rounded-adnexed, somewhat 

 free, ventricose, broad, somewhat distant, crenulated, at first 

 pallid, at length ochraceous. 



Allied to A. furfur aceus. 



On beech mast and leaves. Rare. Sept.-Oct. 



In letterpress to ' Icones ' Fries says the pileus is 2 mm. (i lin.) rarely more 

 broad. Name nap?, fruit; <f>t'Aos, loving. From its usual habitat on fruit 

 of beech, &c. Fr. Monogr. \. p. 386. Hym. Eur. p. 265. Icon. t. 126. f. 4. 

 B. & Br. n. 910. C. Hbk. n. 372. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 344. 



649. A. graminicola Nees. Pileus 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, fus- 

 cous then fawn-ochraceous, somewhat membranaceous, convex, 

 papillate, shaggy-tomentose. Stem slender, tough, hirsute, be- 

 coming fuscous. Gills slightly adnexed, somewhat distant, pallid- 

 ochraceous. 



Remarkable. Under a lens the pileus is covered with strigose hairs. 

 On stalks of grass. Glamis, 1874. Oct. 



The specimens which I submitted to Berkeley have confirmed the opinion 

 that it is a true Naucoria, a point which was doubtful when ' Hym. Eur.' was 

 published. Name gramen, grass ; colo , to inhabit. Growing on grasses. 

 Nees. Syst.f. 186. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 265. B. & Br. n. 1532. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 345. Krombh. t. "$.f. 13 (handsomer, stem branched). 



Submenus XXIV. PLUTEOLUS (from Pluteus, a subgenus of Piuteoius 

 Hyporhodit). Pileus slightly fleshy, viscid, conical or campanu- 

 late then expanded, the margin at the first straight, adpressed to 

 the stem. Stem somewhat cartilaginous, separate from the hy- 

 menophore. Gills rounded-free, wholly like those of Plutei. Fr. 

 Hym. Etir. p. 266. 



Analogous with Plutei. 



650. A. reticulatus Pers. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, vio- 

 laceous, varying fuscous and livid grey, slightly fleshy, campanu- 

 late then expanded, umbonate when full grown, somewhat repand, 

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