CLASSIFICATION 237 



Has an odour said to resemble that of bugs. 



In fir woods. 



E. costatum. — Cap 2-3 in. across, convex, then expanded, sHghtly 

 umbihcate, wavy, hvid brownish, grey and shining when dry ; gills 

 almost free, with prominent raised veins, pallid ; stem about 2 in. 

 long, often deformed, somewhat striate, grey, apex with white 

 squamules. 



vSomewhat resembling E. sericeiim ; differing in the absence of 

 smell, veined gills, and larger size. 



In damp meadows, etc. Often tufted. 



E. sericcum. — Cap about i in. across, soon expanded and minutely 

 umbilicate, edge incurved, often wavy, brownish, then paler and 

 shining ; gills rather distant, broad, salmon-colour ; stem i-i| in. 

 long, fibrous, shining, colour of cap or paler. 



Somewhat resembling Nolanea pasctia ; differing in the strong 

 smell of meal, and the broad, distant gills cut out behind. 



Among grass in pastures, etc. 



E. piilveremn. — Cap campanulate, then plane, sooty, densely 

 covered with very minute scales which are erect at the disc, |-i in. 

 across ; gills adnate, with a minute sinus, grey, veined, becoming 

 deep rose-colour, exceeding the edge of the cap ; stem densely 

 velvety and powdered when young with a reddish rust-coloured 

 meal, 1-2 in. long (spores angular, 12-13 x6/j.). 



Easily known by the mealy stem and squamulose cap. Allied 

 to E. griseocyaneiim. 



Among oak leaves on the ground. 



E. griseocyaneum. — Cap up to i in. across, entirely floccosely 

 squamulose, grey or with a lilac tinge ; gills becoming free, white, 

 then flesh-colour ; stem ij in. long, floccosely fibrillose, pallid, then 

 bluish, at length entirely white. 



Stem at first coloured, then white, hence should be included in 

 both sections of the genus. Resembling a Leptonia superficially, 

 differing in being entirely soft and not cartilaginous. 



In sunny pastures. 



Nolanea 



Cap regular, thin, campanulate, more or less papillate, striate, 

 or even and flocculose, edge at first straight and pressed to the 

 stem ; gills adnexed or free, never decurrent ; stem central, 

 cartilaginous ; spore with a pink or salmon-coloured tinge. 



Most nearly allied to Leptonia, differing in the edge of the cap 

 being straight, and not incurved when young, and in the usually 

 papillate cap. 



* Gills with a grey or fuscous tinge ; cap dark coloured, hygrophanous. 



N. pascua (PI. XIX, fig. 2). — Cap thin, conical, then more or less 



expanded, smooth, hygrophanous, livid bistre, silky and shining 



