236 BRITISH FUNGI 



colour, then pretty smok^^ purple ; stem 2-3 in. long, fibrous, hollow, 

 equal, brownish, covered with smoke-coloured fibrils. 



Gills becoming purplish. Stem entirely fibrous, not shining, 

 rigid. 



Among grass and moss. 



E. rcsutum. — Cap about i in. across, brownish, never umbilicate, 

 densely floccosel}'^ scaly, or sometimes almost even and fibrillose, 

 brownish, disc darker ; gills rather crowded, thickish, grey from 

 the first ; stem i|-3 in. long, entirely fibrous, polished, greyish. 



In woods. Inodorous. 



E. cookei. — Cap |-i| in. across, becoming expanded, edge in- 

 curved, pale reddish orange or brick-red, everywhere covered with 

 paler raised ribs anastomosing to form an irregular network ; gills 

 thickish, pale flesh-colour ; stem up to i in. long, pale red. 



On stumps. 



E. Thomsoni (PI. XX, fig. 4). — Cap 1-2 in. across, expanded and 

 umbonate, grey, with an irregular network of raised ribs ; gills 

 rather distant, flesh-colour ; stem 1 1-2 in. long, fibrillose and downy, 

 paler tlian the cap. 



Among grass under trees. 



E. tortipes. — Cap about 3 in. across, becoming expanded and de- 

 pressed round the umbo, wavy, dark brown, cinnamon when dry ; 

 gills broadly adnate, then separating from the stem, pale, dingy 

 pink ; stem 2-2| in. long, wavy or angularly bent, silky-fibrillose, 

 whitish tinged cinnamon. 



Shining as if oiled when moist. 



Among grass. Solitary. 



E. clypcatuni. — Cap 2-3 in. across, expanded and umbonate, 

 lurid when moist, grey with darker spots or lines when dry ; gills 

 broad, rather distant, dingy, then powdered with the reddish spores, 

 edge serrulate ; stem 3-4 in. long, entirely fibrous, fibrillose, grey, 

 apex powdery. 



Differs from E. tortipes in nearly straight stem and serrulate gills. 



On the ground among grass, etc. 



E. nigrocinnamomum (PI. XX, fig. i). — Cap 2-3 in. across, 

 becoming flattened and depressed round a prominent umbo, even, 

 smooth, rather silky and shining, umber-brown, then blackish ; 

 gills broad, reddish cinnamon ; stem about 2 J in. long, fibrillose, 

 usually twisted, greyish, then tinged reddish. 



Differs from E. clypeatum by the darker cap, hollow stem and 

 entire edge of gills. Smell of new meal. 



In pastures, etc. 



E. ivynnei. — Cap i-i| in. across, soon plane and more or less 

 umbonate, often wavy, smoky grey, velvety, then squamulose ; gills 

 pale salmon-colour, edge crenulate ; stem i|-2 in. long, smoky blue, 

 base cottony, white. 



