240 inUTISII FUNGI 



N. iiifiila. -Remarkably tough. Cap thin, conical, then expanded, 

 papillate, dark grey, buff when dry, up to § in. across ; gills crowded, 

 snow-white, then pink ; stem about 2 in. long, smooth, brown. 



Inodorous. Gills often breaking away and becoming free. 



On the ground in copses, etc. 



\'ar. veni/onnis. — Cap convex, then depressed or even infundi- 

 buliform, but persistently papillate, densely but slightly striate, 

 silky when dry. 



On the ground. 



A'', ccelestina. — Cap up to | in. across, thin, campanulate, obtuse 

 or slightly umbonate, smooth, striate, pale blue, disc darker and 

 rough ; gills rather crowded, white, then tinged pink ; stem i-i| 

 in. long, dark blue, apex mealy, hollow. 



Solitary. Inodorous. Coloured like a Lcptonia. 



In pine woods, on wood, etc. 



N. exilis. — Cap up to | in. across, thin, conical, then expanded, 

 striate, smooth, livid grey, papillose disc darker ; gills rather 

 crowded, whitish, then tinged pink ; stem 2-3 in. long, greyish 

 green. 



Allied to A^. chlowpolia, but more slender and delicate. Cap 

 varying to hlac. 



Among grass, leaves, etc. 



N. verecunda. — Cap about \ in. across, thin, at first somewhat 

 umbonate, then blunt, watery reddish or pallid, edge flocculose ; 

 gills adnate, then seceding from the stem, distant, whitish ; stem 

 ii-2 in. long, becoming pale, apex mealy. 



Among grass. 



**** Gills whitish. Cap not hygrophanous. 



N. ruhida. — Cap about \ in. across, thin, convex, at length ex- 

 panded and umbilicate, minutely silky, even, whitish grey, then 

 rufescent ; gills adnate, narrowed behind, ventricose, sometimes 

 slightly decurrent, whitish, then salmon-colour ; stem about \ in. 

 long, thickest upwards, white, solid. 



Known by its small size, and by the white cap becoming rufescent 

 with age, or on drying. 



Smell resembling meal. 



On soil in a hot-house. 



Leptonia 



Cap regular, thin, usually umbilicate and broken up into scales 

 or fibrils, edge incurved \\-hen young ; gills adnate or adnexed ; 

 stem central, more or less pohshed. 



Mostly growing on the ground, in pastures or swampy places, 

 rarely on wood. Differs from Nolanea in the edge of the cap being 

 incurved when young, and in the umbilicate cap. 



