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The rooting base of the stem which is immersed among Sphagna is attenu- Tubaria. 

 ated and white-villous. There is a slender form differing in the darker colour, 

 smaller, often denuded, pileus, and narrower gills. 



On marshy ground. Sibbertoft, &c. 



A dwarf form about the size of A. inquilinus, B. 6 s Br. Name stag- 

 num, a swamp. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 396. Hym. Eur. p. 273. Icon. t. 129. /. 

 2 (slender form). B. & Br. n. 2005 bis. C. Illust. PI. 468. 



670. A. embolus Fr. Wholly pale yellowish-tawny when in 

 vigour. Pileus 12 mm. (X in.) broad, ochraceous-tan when dry, 

 hygrophanous, campanulate then hemispherical, obtuse, smooth, 

 lineato-striate. Stem about $ cent. (2 in.) long, shining-yellow 

 when dry, becoming ferruginous at the base, fistulose, manifestly 

 thickened upwards, smooth, naked. Gills adnate, very broad be- 

 hind, triangiilar, thick, very distant, tawny-cinnamon when dry. 



The stature and gills are wholly those of A. umbelliferus. 

 On heathy ground. Rare. Oct. 



Name e/^oAos, a wedge. From the shape of the gills. Fr. Monogr. i. 

 P- 393- Hym. Eur. p. 274. Berk. Out. p. 163. C. Hbk. n. 381. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 356. 



671. A. autochthonus B. & Br. Pileus 6 mm. (X in.) broad, 

 ochrey-white, obtuse, hemispherical, silky, flocculose at the mar- 

 gin. Stem 18 mm. (tf in.) long, not i m. (X lin.) thick in the 

 centre, flexuous, thickened upwards and at the white-woolly base. 

 Gills distinctly adnate with a tooth, horizontal, honey-coloured. 



Spores paler than in A. furfuraceus, 4 mk. (those of A. furfuraceus 5 

 mk.) It does not become pallid in drying like that species, but is of an ochra- 

 ceous-white from the first. It is probably a very common species. 



On the naked soil. Woodnewton, Norths. 



Name O.VTOS, self ; x e " v > the earth. Springing from the earth itself. B. 

 & Br. n. 1 121. C. Hbk. n. 388. Grevillea, t. 77. /. 4. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 274. 



** PH^EOTI. * Spores fuscous-ferruginous. 



672. A. crobulus Fr. Pileus 12-18 mm. (X-# in O broad, 

 slightly fleshy, flattened, obtuse, without striae, slightly viscid, in 

 itself wholly smooth, but covered over with floccose, somewhat 

 squarrose, separating, white scales, then naked, becoming hoary- 

 tan, shining. Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) or little more long, scarcely 

 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, tough, equal, incurved or flexuous, 



fuscous, densely beset with white floccose scales. Gills adnate, 

 somewhat decurrcnt, 2 mm. (i lin.) broad, crowded, becoming fus- 

 cous-ferruginous, the edge under a lens unequal. 



